On the next Echoes, electronic sounds from Germany and Argentina. We’ll hear from Lars Leonhard’s A Place Between Worlds, and Pabellon Sintetico’s Ephemeral Architecture.
The return of Beth Orton. She first fused folk and electronica in the ’90s, and now she’s gone even deeper with The Ground Above, a haunting, self-produced album of intimate songs.
Music from the artist 36 and his album of deep minimalist ambience, The Infinity Room. We’ll also hear Alex Amor, who has an album of dream-pop called Heavenly Bodies.
David Helpling and Scott Reich go Through the Thought Horizon. “If you can go through the thought horizon, then you’re opening up all kinds of new experiences. You can exist beyond thought.”
We go Home with guitarist Will Ackerman. His album, Home, is the Echoes November CD of the Month. Ackerman weaves a series of reflective songs with titles born in a nostalgic mood.
Agnes Obel talks about her album, the Meaning of Flowers, a recording that reflects the birth of her first child and looks to John Cage and ancient Sumerian writers for influence.
In the beginning, there was Will Ackerman. The guitarist and founder of Windham Hill Records launched a movement in 1976. Ackerman is still making music and he has a new album called Home.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Fall Therapy. He’s an electronic musician from Grenoble who has a sound that moves from pure electronic to acoustic. We’ll also hear Variant Field.
John Diliberto is your crypt keeper of sonic terror, creating a soundscape of whispered voices, ambient ghosts and hip death goddesses as we soundtrack an Echoes Halloween.
Music from Avant-pop singer Jenny Hval, who wrote her Master’s thesis on Kate Bush: “The Singing Voice as Literature.” Hval has a new album called Classic Objects.