It’s dreamy, downtempo music by JFDR, that’s an abbreviation of her more complicated Icelandic name. We’ll also hear electronic music by Spinger from the album, Invisible Tree.
Playlists
Wednesday, Apr 29, 2020 – Echoes Program 20-17C
Tag: New Age
Coming Up
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 – Naneum Interview
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.
Playlists
Tuesday, Apr 28, 2020 – Echoes Program 2017B
Nicholas Gunn got bullied as a young flute player, but that’s not why he put down his instrument in favor of electronics. Join John Diliberto when he talks with Nicholas Gunn.
Coming Up
Monday, May 11, 2020 – Nicolas Godin Interview
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.
Playlists
Monday, Apr 27, 2020 – Echoes Program 2017A
Singer Channy Leanagh fell off a roof and broke her back, but that didn’t stop her from recording a great album with her group, Polica. We talk about the album When We Stay Alive.
Playlists
Weekend, Apr 25-26, 2020 – Programs 2016A & 2016B
Blue Landscapes, Damjan Krajacic and Robert Thies, talk about improvising impressionistic ambient chamber music. Then AvaWaves, Anna Phoebe and Aisling Brouwer, craft a haunting, beautiful sound.
Coming Up
Weekend, May 9-10, 2020 – AvaWaves & Steve Roach
Explore AvaWaves ambient chamber music debut, Waves, the Echoes CD of the Month for May. Then we interview Steve Roach, the electronic artist who’s been part of Echoes for all of our 30 years.
Playlists
Friday, Apr 24, 2020 – Echoes Program 2016E
Guitarist Lawson Rollins continues his Nuevo Flamenco ways on his album True North. And Aquiver takes us into the down-tempo dub typical of a musician from the Desert Dwellers circle.
Reviews & Commentary
Sigur Ros’ Jónsi Releases Video for “Exhale”.
Jónsi drops a single for these times, “Exhale.” The singer from Sigur Ros creates a work that begins hymnal and ends exultant with the image of a slow motion dancer in garbage bag plastic.
Coming Up
Thursday, May 7, 2020 – Remembering Florian Schneider.
We remember Kraftwerk’s Florian Schneider who passed at 73. We’ll also hear new music from the Sigur Ros singer Jonsi, and a decent album from guitarist John Gregorius.