We talk to singer-songwriter Marya Stark about her celestial approach to lyrics and her new album, Saphhire. Then we remember cellist David Darling, who left the planet on January 8th.
Coming Up
Weekend, Jan 16-17, 2021 – Marya Stark & David Darling
Tag: synthesizer
Playlists
Weekend, Jan 2-3, 2021 – Programs 2052A & 2052B
Ryan West is Rival Consoles, a resolutely electronic project, but still thinks of his chromium plated compositions as songs. Michael Rother is a legend of progressive rock and electronic music.
CD of the Month
Echoes January 2021 CDoM: Steve Roach – Tomorrow
Steve Roach is an Icon of Echoes. His 2020 release Tomorrow is the Echoes CD of the Month. Hear this analog modular sequencer dervish from the master of that sound.
Coming Up
Friday, Jan 15, 2021 – Music by Sufjan Stevens & Ane Brun
Sufjan Stevens goes all electronic on an album of life ruminations called The Ascension, maybe his most darkly melodic album ever. Also going deep but more acoustic is Ane Brun.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Jan 13, 2021 – SUSS Interview
SUSS is the tripped-out band that merges country, ambient, and psychedelic music and their side project, Numuen. Are they ambient Americana or psychedelic country. We suss it out.
Playlists
Tuesday, Dec 29, 2020 – Echoes Program 2052B
Michael Rother, legendary guitarist of German progressive music, has played with Kraftwerk, Neu, and Harmonia. We talk to Rother about his new album, his first in 16 years called Dreaming.
Coming Up
Monday, Jan 11, 2021 – Marya Stark Interview
Singer-songwriter Marya Stark has a more celestial approach to lyrics. Last year she released the album, Sapphire, co-produced with Joshua Penman of the electronic project, Akara.
Playlists
Monday, Dec 28, 2020 – Program 2052A
Ryan West records as Rival Consoles, a resolutely electronic project, but he still thinks of his chromium plated compositions as songs. He calls it “songwriting with an electronic palate.”
Coming Up
Weekend, Jan 9-10, 2021 – Steve Roach CD of the Month
Today is Tomorrow as we start 2021 with our January CD of the Month, Steve Roach’s Tomorrow. Then an interview with early pioneer of jazz driven electronic music, Amon Tobin.
Playlists
Thursday, Dec 24, 2020 – Echoes Program 2051D
Get the sugar plums dancing with an Echoes Night Before Christmas. It’s not your shopping Mall Christmas carols with David Arkenstone’s Native Christmas, and Smoke Fairies’ Wild Winter.