The Royal Arctic Institute creates an atmospheric guitar-centric sound, like the Ventures gone slow-mo and psychedelic. They play songs off From Coma to Catharsis live on Echoes.
The May CD of the Month is Michael Whalen’s Our April Tigers, a fascinating and seductive album with an all-star cast including Michael Manring, Karsh Kale, Michael Brook and Jeff Oster.
Echoes Weekend listeners hear Michael Whalen, Jeff Oster & Michael Brook talk about their trippy collaboration and Carmen Rizzo & Meriem Ben Amor talk about their duo, Didon.
Vic Hennegan heads into space. The ambient electronic composer comes to Echoes to perform a live electronic set with no computers, just synthesizers, to create a drifting soundscape.
Everybody loves Whipped Cream and we’ll hear the electronic artist who goes by that name. She has a new EP, Someone You Can Count On. We’ll hear that and new music by Philip Selway.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, a startling duet between Iranian kamencheh musician Kayhan Kalhor and Malian kora player Toumani Diabate. We’ll also hear some new solo work by Michelle Qureshi.
It’s a trip to the red planet when we hear new music by Thaneco from his album, Structures from Mars. It’s an album of deep Berlin school sequencers. We’ll also hear something from Sine.
New music by Secret Sky, a group comprised of musicians from Loreena McKennitt’s band, fronted by cellist and singer Caroline Lavelle. The new album is called Opium.
The Arabic fusion of Didon. We talk to Meriem Ben Amor and Carmen Rizzo about their fusion of traditional vocal sounds and electronic arrangements heard on their debut, Tunisian Tale.
Michael Whalen gathered a super-group that includes guitarist Michael Brook, bassist Michael Manring, trumpeter Jeff Oster and percussionist Karsh Kale for his new album, Our April Tigers.