Digitonal’s Set the Weather Fair was one of Echoes’ Top five Albums of 2020. Andy Dobson and Dom Graveson talk about their merging of classical moods and electronic ambiences and grooves.
We get Shpongled when we talk to Simon Posford and Raja Ram of the psychedelic electronic duo, Shpongle. They talk about their hallucinogenic sound and their deep music backgrounds.
The keyboardist for the Danish Al-rock band, Kashmir, takes the neo-classical, solo piano route on a trilogy of recordings. We go inside the creaky piano sound of Henrik Lindstrand.
The April CD of the Month, Ember Days, is an album of intricate and pastoral excursions by Carl Weingarten. He weaves multiple guitars and pedal steel into the sound of country meets heaven.
We hear from London Grammar, the seductive and serene dream pop band. The group talks about the explorations of love and politics that suffuse their new recording, Californian Soil.
A new collaboration between electronic artists Emancipator, Rena Jones and Flowerpulse called Xylem. We’ll also hear a long meditation by Lisa Bella Donna from The World She Wanted.
Simon Posford of Shpongle has a new album of ambient moods, Flux & Contemplation, and Tom Holkenborg, a.k.a. Junkie XL, has a new soundtrack for White Lines. Go outside the lines on Echoes.
With vocal cut-ups and trip hop beats, the French composer Wax Tailor’s new album, The Shadow of their Suns, slices and dices social injustice in the 21st century.
New music from Lana Del Rey’s dreamy album of dark truths called Chem Trails Over the Country Club. We’ll also hear a new collaboration between Ian Boddy & Markus Reuter called Outland.