Thievery Corporation has a new album of downtempo sonic collage, Treasures from the Temple. We’ll hear that and music from an instrumental guitar band called Nova Flares on Echoes
Playlists
Thursday, May 3rd, 2018-Echoes Program 1818D
Tag: electronic
CD of the Month
May 2018 CD of the Month: Erik Wøllo’s Threshold Point
Norway’s Erik Wøllo creates an album born of loss, escape and cinematic expanse on his album Threshold Point, the Echoes CD of the Month for May. We review this profoundly beautiful album.
Playlists
Monday, April 30th, 2018-Echoes Program 1818A
We reach the Threshold Point on the next Echoes. That’s the title of Erik Wøllo’s new album, a gorgeous electronic expanse, much of it composed in the aftermath of a deep and tragic loss.
Interview Podcast, Program Highlights
Echoes Podcast: Holger Czukay
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Holger Czukay, a founding member of iconoclastic rock band Can and a master of sound collage, the proto-typical sample artist. Learn about him in the Echoes Podcast.
Playlists
Thursday, April 26th, 2018-Echoes Program 1817D
Music by Beach House from a new single, “Lemon Glow” that continues their dream pop sound and Lapa, a project from Emancipator violinist Ilya Goldberg with her album Spirit Vessel.
Playlists
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 – Echoes Program 1817B
Electronic artist Chuck Van Zyl is a child of German electronic sounds of the 70s, He’s keeping that alive on his Stars End Radio and in his own music. He talks about it on Echoes.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Solomon Grey
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Solomon Grey is an English dream pop duo who have just released “Human Music” exploring themes of love, familial relationships and assisted suicide. We talk to them in Echoes Podcast.
Reviews & Commentary
Holger Czukay-Five Essential Albums
Holger Czukay was a music renegade who studied with Stockhausen, co-founded the German rock group Can, and pioneered sampling before samplers influencing a generation of artists.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Mantra & Stockhausen’s Klang
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We interview the director and Kirtan chanters in the documentary Mantra: Sounds into Silence and explore Karlheinz Stockhausen and his Klang: the 24 Hours of the Day in Echoes Podcast.
Playlists
Wednesday, April 11th, 2018-Echoes Program 1815C
Soundtrack composer Mac Quayle plugs in for the cyber-soundtrack of TVs, Mr. Robot, the dark, sci-fi dystopian drama. We talk to him about electronic music of a disturbed mind.