Sitarist Anoushka Shankar is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, but she’s going even further afield than her father. We’ll hear a track from Love Letters PS with her sister, Norah Jones.
German Composer Robot Koch has gone from death metal to deep ambient chamber music in his career. And Sphongle began in hallunciation and makes hallucinations. Their stories on Echoes.
Electronic artist Ian Boddy’s new album, Axiom features a classic retro-space music sound. We’ll also hear ambient piano by Jon Durant and ambient chamber music by Digitonal.
The legendary Japanese musician Kitaro, the 29th Icon of Echoes, visited the Echoes Living Room in 2001 with his wife Keiko and played a stripped-down, intimate version of his music.
Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy take us on a trip to Ravenna. The two musicians take us inside their musical creation which has elements of folk, classical and even some rock slips in.
We get Shpongled when we talk to Simon Posford and Raja Ram of the psychedelic electronic duo, Shpongle. They talk about their hallucinogenic sound and their deep music backgrounds.
We travel the backroads of Ambient America. We’ll hear reveries on the the 4th of July and traverse the byways and highways of Ambient Americana from Brian Eno, Lanterna and more.
New music by Mirabai Ceiba. This duo of Markus Sieber and Angelika Baumbach from Aukai started as a chant group but have evolved considerably on their new album, The Quiet Hour.
Will Ackerman is the 28th Icon of Echoes. He has performed his atmospheric acoustic guitar music live on Echoes several times over the years: here’s one from 2005.