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.
CD of the Month
September 2019 CD of the Month: Hugar’s Varða
Tag: New Age
Best Of
Echoes August 2019 Top 25: David Pritchard to Angel Olsen
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.
Playlists
Friday, August 30, 2019 – Echoes Program 1935E
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.
Coming Up
Thursday, September 12, 2019: Slow Flow Echoes with FLOW
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.
Playlists
Thursday, August 29, 2019 – Echoes Program 1935D
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.
Coming Up
Wednesday, September 11, 2019: Mystic Journey Concert
The world fusion duo Mystic Journey comes in to play live. Mystic Journey takes us on an exploration of global flutes, percussion and beautiful melodies on Echoes.
Playlists
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 – Echoes Program 1935B
Harpist and singer Emilie Kahn creates a probing music with just her harp and voice. She used to record as Emilie & Ogden. Ogden is her harp. It’s still there when she plays live on Echoes.
Coming Up
Monday, September 9, 2019: Azam Ali Interview
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Azam Ali takes her love of modern electronic music to create her new album, Phantoms. John Diliberto talks to her about a sound born from social and political darkness and electronic grooves.
Playlists
Friday, August 23, 2019 – Echoes Program 1934E
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by Steve Hackett, formerly the guitarist with Genesis. We’ll also hear a classic 70s track by German electronic pioneer, Klaus Schulze.
Coming Up
Thursday, September 5, 2019: New Electronic Music
Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning releases The Munich Session. We go back to 1981 for John Foxx’s The Garden and Mark Dwane returns to 1988 to revisit his debut with Martian Apparitions.