Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning releases The Munich Session. We also go back to 1981 for John Foxx’s The Garden, and Mark Dwane returns to 1988 to revisit his debut with Martian Apparitions.
It’s chilled ambiences from Iceland, the land of chill, when Hugar come in to play live. The duo unfolds the deep moods and frozen landscapes of their CD of the Month in an intimate and subtle performance.
Yann Tiersen is a wonderful composer who has scored films like Amelie and Goodbye Lenin, but he also composes his own music for multiple keyboards, percussion, strings and more. He plays live on Echoes.
Veteran film composer, Rob Simonsen talks about his first solo album, Reveries. The composer of scores for Nerve, Love, Simon and others creates a nostalgic ambient chamber music album.
Weekend Echoes listeners hear an interview with Vas & Niyaz singer Azam Ali about her all-English electronic album, Phantoms. We’ll also hear free improvisation with Swana-Motzer-Hirlinger.
Hugar’s Varða is the Echoes September CD of the Month. The Icelandic duo creates a perfect ambient chamber album of Autumnal colors and chilled moods inspired by Icelandic landscapes.
The Echoes Top 25 for August 2019 features the CD of the Month “Evanescent” by David Pritchard at the top, followed by Lamb, Azam Ali, Eve Maret, and 21 more recent recordings.
On a Slow Flow Echoes we explore early Japanese ambient music from a collection called Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Environmental, Ambient & New Age Music 1980-1990. We’ll aslo sample another collection: Cosmic Duality, on Astro Pilot.
New music by FLOW, the quartet of Fiona Joy, Lawrence Blatt, Jeff Oster and Windham Hill founder Will Ackerman. We’ll also hear guitar-synthesist Mark Dwane on a Slow Flow Echoes.
Pianist Chad Lawson came up through classical and jazz, but now he’s creating ambient music, treating his piano with electronic processing to give him a more atmospheric sound.