We head to the badlands. Not the location, but the electronic pop singer Badlands, who is Swedish producer, Catharina Jaunviksna. Her new album is Call to Love. We heed the call on Echoes.
Music from Plaster Cast. They aren’t related to the Plaster Casters of the 1960s. This is a band creating a downtempo slo-core sound reminiscent of The XX. We’ll also hear Rebecca Pidgeon.
Rebecca Pidgeon live on Echoes. She’s best known as an actress, in movies like The Spanish Prisoner and State and Main, but her latest album explores themes of the mind, consciousness and meditation.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, Robert Rich and Luca Formentini. Rich is a veteran of electronic music. Formentini is an Italian guitarist. They get together on the album, For Sundays When It Rains.
New music by Icelandic singer JFDR. She’s collaborated with Olafur Arnalds and now has a new single. We’ll also hear from Hans Christian who has a new collaboration with singer Jim Gelcer.
New music for stringed instruments. We’ll hear Marisa Anderson, a disciple of John Fahey & Leo Kottke, from her album, Still Here. And I’ve got music for the African kora played by Mafu Conteh.
Progressive rock band Delay Tactics returns after 38 years with three original members: Carl Weingarten, Walter Whitney and David Udell. They talk about their new album, Elements of Surprise.
Author and composer Albert Glinsky talks about his book, Switched-On, Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution. It’s a deep dive into the inventor who changed the face of modern music.