We talk with New Age Pioneer Kevin Braheny Fortune. After 22 years, he has four releases of ambient music. He talks about his name change, years of silence and his new music.
Playlists
Monday, May 18, 2020 – Echoes Program 2020A
Tag: New Age
Coming Up
Weekend, May 30-31, 2020 – Memorial Day & Whalen Interview
On an Echoes Memorial Day Soundscape, it’s music to contemplate loss across time. Then it’s an interview with Michael Whalen, he talks about his April CD of the Month, Sacred Spaces.
Playlists
Weekend, May 16-17, 2020 – Programs 2019A & 2019B
The French Band AIR was one of the seminal electronic pop groups of the 1990s and oughts. Founding member Nicolas Godin has a new solo album out that began as an architectural art project.
Coming Up
Friday, May 29, 2020 – Ukulele Titan Taimane Live
Hawaii’s Taimane takes the ukulele and brings uncanny virtuosity and melody to it If you think the ukulele is a novelty instrument for Luaus, then you need to hear Taimane live on Echoes.
Playlists
Friday, May 15, 2020 – Echoes Program 2019E
We’ll hear a great version of Phil Collins’ In the Air Tonight by Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky. We’ll also hear from Tigerforest’s album of orchestrated electronics called Discovery.
Coming Up
Thursday, May 28, 2020 – Slow Flow Echoes
New music by French guitarist Pierre Bensusan. He came up during the days of Windham Hill guitarists like Michael Hedges who named a song after Bensusan. He has a new album called Azwan.
Playlists
Thursday, May 14, 2020 – Echoes Program 2019D
Pianist Peter Kater goes Hawaiian. He taps traditional Hawaiian music and musicians and creates a lush landscape around them. We’ll also hear new music by the electronic artist Kayobe.
Coming Up
Wednesday, May 27, 2020 – Peter Kater Interview
Peter Kater is known for sweetly romantic and deeply introspective music. But there’s another side to this musician, with a dark childhood and beginning as a hitch-hiking itinerant musician.
Playlists
Wednesday, May 13, 2020 – Echoes Program 2019C
We travel to Ukraine to talk with Andrei Ivanov who records as Vonavi. Last year this electronic composer released his impressive debut album, Reflection with collaborators like Run Rivers.
Coming Up
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 – Michael Whalen Interview
Composer Michael Whalen talks about his CD of the Month, Sacred Spaces. It’s a return for Whalen to his progressive rock roots as he turns a classical composition into a synthesized fantasy.