Ride the current of a Slow Flow Echoes. We’ll hear music from Lena Natalia. The Chicago based pianist is creating ambient piano works on her album, Hidden Treasures.
Hear New Age Ancient and Modern. Prompted by the January death of New Age pioneer Iasos, Echoes takes a spin through some early new age music as well as some of its more recent exponents.
Take Sigur Ros, add strings and a more classical sensibility, and you get Limina. By day, Tyler Durham works on film scores. At night he fires up his virtual orchestra as Limina.
Electronic artist Tim Blake was there at the beginning, playing synth for space rockers Gong and Hawkwind and launching his own project of synthesizers and lasers, Crystal Machine.
We have one conversation with a trio that has released an album called Seven Conversations. They are Jeff Oster, Vin Downes and Tom Eaton. We talk to them about improvising in ambient space.
The August CD of the Month is the debut recording of Jaymie Rose Hennegan. She has spun an album of delirious sequencers and free-form synth solos, improvised live on the album, Transition.
We get liquid with Edgar Froese’s solo debut album, Aqua, released 50 years ago. Froese was the founding member of Tangerine Dream, but this album went more experimental.
Music from Arooj Aftab, the Pakistani-American singer who wraps you in dark sultriness. We’ll hear from her album, Night Reign. We’ll also hear a psychedelic band called Magic Fig.
We celebrate Klaus Schulze’s Blackdance. Released in 1974, it was Schulze’s third release and the first to see him moving in the direction of music for which he’s best known.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we’ll hear a Japanese electronic artist who records as Yaffle. He’s got a beautiful ambient chamber music release recorded with several Icelandic musicians.