Guitar dreams by John Gregorius from his album, Full of Life. His Echoes CD of the Month He’s crafted an excursion of multi-layered guitar from acoustic to electric in evocative compositions.
We talk with New Age Pioneer Kevin Braheny Fortune. After 22 years, he has four releases of ambient music. He talks about his name change, years of silence and his new music.
On an Echoes Memorial Day Soundscape, it’s music to contemplate loss across time. Then it’s an interview with Michael Whalen, he talks about his April CD of the Month, Sacred Spaces.
The French Band AIR was one of the seminal electronic pop groups of the 1990s and oughts. Founding member Nicolas Godin has a new solo album out that began as an architectural art project.
We’ll hear a great version of Phil Collins’ In the Air Tonight by Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky. We’ll also hear from Tigerforest’s album of orchestrated electronics called Discovery.
New music by French guitarist Pierre Bensusan. He came up during the days of Windham Hill guitarists like Michael Hedges who named a song after Bensusan. He has a new album called Azwan.
Pianist Peter Kater goes Hawaiian. He taps traditional Hawaiian music and musicians and creates a lush landscape around them. We’ll also hear new music by the electronic artist Kayobe.
We travel to Ukraine to talk with Andrei Ivanov who records as Vonavi. Last year this electronic composer released his impressive debut album, Reflection with collaborators like Run Rivers.
Composer Michael Whalen talks about his CD of the Month, Sacred Spaces. It’s a return for Whalen to his progressive rock roots as he turns a classical composition into a synthesized fantasy.
We explore the ambient chamber music of Naneum. On his album, Life Cycle he recorded a local choir singing their traditional music but then sliced it up into his own arrangements.