Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Michael Stearns
Tag: New Age
Playlists
Thursday, Apr 7, 2022 – Echoes Program 2214D
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by David Helpling. His new album of ambient orchestrations for guitar and synthesizer is called IN. We’ll also hear new music by Ben Lukas Boysen.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Apr 20, 2022 – New Music from Patrick Watson
New music from Canadian Dream Pop artist Patrick Watson that captures the uncertainty of this time. We’ll also hear a collaboration between Bruno San Filippo and Aukai.
Playlists
Wednesday, Apr 6, 2022 – Echoes Program 2214C
New music from Avant-pop singer Jenny Hval, who wrote her Master’s thesis on Kate Bush: “The Singing Voice as Literature.” Hval has a new album called Classic Objects.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Apr 19, 2022 – Ambient Chamber Music
Put on your tuxedos and gowns for chamber music on the ambient side. Ambient Chamber Music is the meeting of classical modes and ambient atmospheres, and we have a whole show of it.
Playlists
Tuesday, Apr 5, 2022 – Echoes Program 2214B
Trentemøller is a Danish electronic musician who started out on the dance floor. Now he’s creating a more introspective music drawing upon his memories and his recent status as a father.
Coming Up
Monday, Apr 18, 2022 – Laurie Anderson’s Big Science 40th
It’s the 40th Anniversary of Laurie Anderson’s Big Science, her debut album and the one that contained her signature song, “O Superman.” It still sounds resonant 40 years later.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 March 2022: Trentmøller on Top
Echoes Top 25 for March 2022. Trentemoller’s Memoria, Will Ackerman’s Positano Songs, The Royal Arctic Institute’s From Catnap to Coma, and 22 more.
CD of the Month
Echoes April CD of the Month: Planetary Unfolding
Planetary Unfolding by Michael Stearns is a seminal ambient album from 1981 by Michael Stearns. A new reissue reveals this electronic epic was indeed the music of the future.
Playlists
Monday, Apr 4, 2022 – Echoes Program 2214A
Michael Stearns’s Planetary Unfolding is a seminal Ambient album from 40 years ago. We talk to the composer and feature the album as Echoes April CD of the Month.