New music from a pair of duos. We’ll hear Sweden’s Johan Agebjorn and Mikael Ogren with Artefact, and Bluetech and Steven Moore have a new downtempo collaboration, Liminal Migration.
Playlists
Thursday, May 27, 2021 – Echoes Program 2121D
Tag: electronic
Coming Up
Wednesday, June 9, 2021 – 25th Icon Agnes Obel
Singer and composer Agnes Obel creates a sound that is both introspective and incandescent. She is the 25th Icon of Echoes, and we’ll bring you a sound portrait of this artist.
Living Room Concerts
In Concert: Erik Wollo
The 23rd Icon, Norwegian guitarist Erik Wøllo. Since the mid-1990s he’s been sculpting celestial landscapes for guitar and synthesizer. We’ll hear a vintage live Echoes Performance.
Reviews & Commentary
10 Essential Erik Wollo Albums
Feast your mind on the 10 Essential Erik Wøllo album, the 23rd Icon of Echoes. The Norwegian artist has been creating soundscapes born in the landscapes of home and space.
Playlists
Wednesday, May 26, 2021 – Echoes Program 2121C
The 23rd Icon, Norwegian guitarist Erik Wøllo. Since the mid-1990s he’s been sculpting celestial landscapes for guitar and synthesizer. We’ll hear a vintage live Echoes Performance.
Coming Up
Monday, Jun 7, 2021 – Emancipator, Rena Jones, & Flowerpulse
Emancipator, Rena Jones, & Flowerpulse weave their electronic roots into the ambient excursion of Xylem, their debut album. John Diliberto goes to the garden with 3 electronic explorers.
Playlists
Monday, May 24, 2021 – Echoes Program 2121A
Gary Numan paints a dystopian nightmare where earth takes revenge for a civilization that has fostered environmental and military catastrophe. We ponder the apocalypse with Gary Numan.
Coming Up
Weekend, June 5-6, 2021 – Schnauss & Munk CD of the Month
The Echoes June CD of the Month: Eight Fragments of an Illusion by Ulrich Schnauss and Jonas Munk and NPR’s Bob Boilen goes full ambient on his album, Hidden Smiles this weekend on Echoes.
Playlists
Weekend, May 22-23, 2021 – Programs 2120A & 2120B
Idiosyncratic folk-rocker Sufjan Stevens has a five volume set of deeply ambient compositions called Convocations. It’s partly a response to deaths in the family and the pandemic.
Coming Up
Friday, June 4, 2021 – Slow Flow Echoes
Music by Norwegian electronic artist Sverre Knut Johansen, from an album of ambient moods called Dreams Beyond. We’ll also hear from Granmmy-winning guitarist Jim Kimo West.