German Composer Robot Koch has gone from death metal to deep ambient chamber music in his career. We follow the course of this inventive artist up through his latest offering.
Playlists
Monday, July 19, 2021 – Robot Koch Interview
Tag: New Age
Coming Up
Friday, July 30, 2021 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Loga Ramin Torkian, one half of the Persian fusion group, Niyaz. He has a solo album featuring his micro-tonal guitar and cello, called Brink of Absolute.
Playlists
Friday, July 16, 2021 – Echoes Program 2128E
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Tom Caufield. This finger-style guitarist has released some of the most inventive guitar albums of the last decade. We’ll also hear from Olafur Arnalds.
Coming Up
Thursday, July 29, 2021 – Sufjan Stevens Interview
Idiosyncratic folk-rocker Sufjan Stevens has a five volume set of deeply ambient compositions called Convocations. It’s partly a response to deaths in the family and the pandemic.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Hybrid and George Winston
Playlists
Thursday, July 15, 2021 – Echoes Program 2128D
New music by Mirabai Ceiba. This duo of Markus Sieber and Angelika Baumbach from Aukai started as a chant group but have evolved considerably on their new album, The Quiet Hour.
Living Room Concerts
George Winston – Live on Echoes in 1999
Pianist George Winston, the 30th Icon, came into the Echoes Living Room in 1999, and performed tunes from his latest album at the time, Plains, his classic December and more.
Coming Up
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 – New Music from Anoushka Shankar
Sitarist Anoushka Shankar is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, but she’s going even further afield than her father. We’ll hear a track from Love Letters PS with her sister, Norah Jones.
Playlists
Wednesday, July 14, 2021 – Echoes Program 2128C
George Winston is the 30th Icon for 30 years of Echoes. We’ll survey the music world of this pianist who brought contemporary instrumental music to popularity in the 1980s.
Coming Up
Tuesday, July 27, 2021 – Harold Budd and Eric Hilton
We hear some of the last music created by Harold Budd. The ambient artist passed last December, but he left his soundtrack to HBO’s I Know This Much Is True. We’ve got a track from that.