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.
Hear ambient guitar, live, when Jeff Pearce comes in to play music from across his 30-year career, including covers of music by two of his influences, Harold Budd and Vangelis.
We’ll hear music from Opium Moon. This Grammy-winning world fusion band featuring violinist Lili Hayden has a new album of seductive middle eastern sounds called Where We Are Gathered.
We put Charlie Cunningham in the picture with his new album, Frame. This English singer song-writer has echoes of John Martyn and Nick Drake and atmospheres of Brian Eno and Harold Budd.
We remember Carla Bley. The jazz composer provocateur created one of the most varied and exploratory body of works in jazz, spanning seven decades. She passed away at 87.
Darkside is the trippy electronica duo of Nicolas Jaar & Dave Harrington who released their debut album 10 years ago. It’s getting reissued in a deluxe edition. We revisit our 2014 interview.
Oboist Russel Walder talks about his new album, Speak to the Storm. It’s a deep world fusion journey, spiked by sampled Middle Eastern and Indian instruments, percussion and voices.
Enter the monastery with Kevin Keller’s November CD of the Month. It’s called Evensong and it is centered around chants from the medieval Abbess, Hildegard von Bingen.
The artist known as BT is a polymath who gets into the code of his music. He has a new album, The Secret Language of Trees, and although it’s forest inspired, it’s not a pastoral romp.