On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Tom Caufield. This finger-style guitarist has released some of the most inventive guitar albums of the last decade. We’ll also hear from Olafur Arnalds.
After his keyboard symphony Sacred Spaces, Michael Whalen returns with a more meditative album for keyboards and the Japanese shakuhachi flute played by Blue Monk. It’s called Karmic Dreams.
Flashback 50 to David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold the World, released in November 1970. We’ll also hear from Loma’s Don’t Shy Away and Kevin Braheny Fortune’s Eclectic Electric Singles.
Todavia is a dream-pop band from Los Angeles that is channeling The Cocteau Twins. They have a new album, Orange Faint of Sky. We’ll also hear from singer Marya Stark off her album, Sapphire.
Echoes Election Chill. It’s been a tumultuous time in America and this week one thing will come to a conclusion, or at least semi-conclusion. Tune out the news and chill with us on Echoes.
Sufjan Stevens goes all electronic on an album of life ruminations called The Ascension, maybe his most darkly melodic album ever. Also going deep but more acoustic is Ane Brun.
Digitonal return with their third CD of the Month, Set the Weather Fair. Digitonal are avatars of ambient chamber music mixing contemporary electronics with classical elegance and melodies.
Amon Tobin, early pioneer of jazz driven electronic music, has returned after a four-year hiatus with new music under pseudonyms, including psychedelic persona Figueroa, where he even sings.
It’s a new generation of German electronic artists when we talk to Thomas Lemmer & Sebastian Pabst. Then we hear from rock refugee Gregory Allen Lisher (Camper Van Beethoven & Monks of Doom)
If 2020 hasn’t been scary enough for you, we’ve got ravens sitting at our windows, bats circling in the sky, and mysterious voices coming from the basement. It’s just an Echoes Halloween.