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.
Coming Up
Thursday, May 28, 2020 – Slow Flow Echoes
Tag: New Age
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.
Playlists
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 – Program 2019B
We explore the ambient chamber music of Naneum. On his album, Life Cycle he recorded a local choir singing their traditional music but then sliced it up into his own arrangements.
Coming Up
Monday, May 25, 2020 – An Echoes Memorial Day Soundscape
On an Echoes Memorial Day Soundscape, it’s music to contemplate the loss and the carnage of wars across time including music from Loreena McKennitt, The Zombies and Hans Zimmer.
Playlists
Monday, May 11, 2020 – Echoes Program 2019A
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
Weekend, May 23-24, 2020 – Kevin Braheny & David Helpling
It’s the return of a New Age pioneer when we talk with Kevin Braheny Fortune. Then David Helpling takes us into the runic and oceanic influences of his January CD of the Month, Rune.
Playlists
Weekend, May 9-10, 2020 – Programs 2018A & 2018B
AvaWaves is an ambient chamber music duo who have released their debut album, Waves. Then we interview Steve Roach, the electronic artist who has been part of Echoes for all of its 30 years.