Mogwai has a new album called The Bad Fire. The Scotland-based post-rock band has coincidentally re-emerged at the same time as their American counterparts, Explosions in the Sky.
A Slow Flow Echoes drifts through Ann Licater’s solo flute album, Between the Stars, and then heads into perilous electronics with Thanaco and Dask’s album, Ships in the Sky.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, Ian Boddy teams up with German drummer and electronic musician Harold Grosskopf. Grosskopf played on several Klaus Schulze albums and in Ashra and Wallenstein.
Outkast’s Andre 3000 goes ambient and new age. We’ll hear music from the rapper’s Grammy-nominated solo debut album, New Blue Sun which is all instrumental and features no real beats and lots of flute.
We go back to the 1976 album, New Age of Earth by Ash Ra Tempel, the German band led by guitarist Manuel Göttsching. This album is pretty much a solo release of deep, floating ambient music.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we enter the temple of Steve Roach’s Sanctuary of Desire. We’ll go into one of the long, evolving tracks from this master of sequencer-driven music.
It seems like only yesterday that Erik Wøllo released his album, Solastalgia and now he has new one, Where the River Widens. It’s inspired, once again, by his home in Norway.
It’s a meeting of electronic generations with Ian Boddy and Harald Grosskopf. They’ve created an album called Doppelganger that looks back at the golden age of Krautrock.
Ólafur Arnalds and his ensemble performed live on Echoes back in 2011, playing music from the album he had just released at the time, “And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness.”
New Zealand Electronic artist David Parsons left the planet in February. We remember him with a suite of his music that combined electronics with sitar and other world music elements.