The Ambient Country band SUSS struggles with loss and finds a way to be reborn. After co-founding member Gary Lieb died, they had to reevaluate not only their existence, but their sound.
The August CD of the Month is Rain Before Seven by Penguin Café, the successor to The Penguin Café Orchestra launched in 1976 on Brian Eno’s Obscure Label. The music continues to be one-of-a-kind.
We travel to China via the impressionistic music of Robert Rich. His latest album, Travelers’ Cloth, is inspired by an ancient Chinese poet and his journey through the countryside.
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s music by Evenfall, the collaboration of multi-instrumentalist Cass Anawaty and flute player Sherry Finzer. We’ll also get some ambient chamber music by Naneum.
We look back at A Produce. That was the moniker of Barry Craig in the ’80s and ’90s. He died young in 2011. His music is being reissued so Echoes goes back to their 1996 interview.
We remember Sinead O’Connor who passed on July 26. Her voice was the sound of the soul. We’ll hear her work with other artists including Afro Celt Sound System and Massive Attack.
We travel to China via the impressionistic music of Robert Rich. His latest album, Travelers’ Cloth, is inspired by an ancient Chinese poet and his journey through the countryside.
The artist known as BT is a polymath who gets into the code of his music. He has a new album, The Secret Language of Trees, and although it’s forest inspired, it’s not a pastoral romp.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music from ELEON, one of the recording personas of Michael A Foster, from his latest album, Hidden In Time. We’ll also hear an electronic duo who record as Iluiteq.