Two women from the classical world go ambient with AvaWaves. Violinist Anna Phoebe and keyboardist Aisling Brouwer have crafted a haunting and unremittingly beautiful sound on their debut.
Polica’s Channy Leanagh fell off a roof and broke her back. Nicholas Gunn got bullied as a young flute player. But that didn’t stop either of them from recording amazing music.
We hear the multi-keyboard orchestrations of music of Naneum, live. Then it’s Gunnar Spardel, who composes serene chamber music under his own name and upbeat electronic music as Tigerforest.
We hear music by Kevin Keller from an anthology of his music called 12.25, representing 12 albums in 25 years. David Helpling also goes deeply ambient with RUNE.
New music by Drogtech, a Polish musician creating ambient soundscapes on his new album, Fractured. We’ll also hear from Karavan Sarai, the world fusion electronic project.
It’s dreamy, downtempo music by JFDR, that’s an abbreviation of her more complicated Icelandic name. We’ll also hear electronic music by Spinger from the album, Invisible Tree.
We return to the April 1990 album, Kojiki by Kitaro. It was a landmark recording for the Japanese electronic artist that brought his sound into orchestral and world music terrain.
Nicholas Gunn got bullied as a young flute player, but that’s not why he put down his instrument in favor of electronics. Join John Diliberto when he talks with Nicholas Gunn.
We talk to Gunnar Spardel, who composes somber and serene chamber music under his own name and upbeat, progressive electronic music under the guise of Tigerforest.
Singer Channy Leanagh fell off a roof and broke her back, but that didn’t stop her from recording a great album with her group, Polica. We talk about the album When We Stay Alive.