Azam Ali takes her love of modern electronic music to create her new album, Phantoms. John Diliberto talks to her about a sound born from social and political darkness and electronic grooves.
Playlists
Monday, September 9, 2019: Echoes Program 1937A
Tag: synthesizer
Coming Up
Friday, September 20, 2019: Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by Gunnar Spardel. He used to record electronic music as Tigerforest, but now he’s going in a darker, chamber music direction on a new album.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Beacon’s Electro-R&B Cosmogony
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Playlists
Thursday, September 5, 2019: Echoes Program 1936D
Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning releases The Munich Session. We also go back to 1981 for John Foxx’s The Garden, and Mark Dwane returns to 1988 to revisit his debut with Martian Apparitions.
Coming Up
Tuesday, September 17, 2019: Hugar Concert
It’s chilled ambiences from Iceland, the land of chill, when Hugar come in to play live. The duo unfolds the deep moods and frozen landscapes of their CD of the Month in an intimate and subtle performance.
Coming Up
Weekend, September 14-15, 2019: Azam Ali Interview
Weekend Echoes listeners hear an interview with Vas & Niyaz singer Azam Ali about her all-English electronic album, Phantoms. We’ll also hear free improvisation with Swana-Motzer-Hirlinger.
CD of the Month
September 2019 CD of the Month: Hugar’s Varða
Hugar’s Varða is the Echoes September CD of the Month. The Icelandic duo creates a perfect ambient chamber album of Autumnal colors and chilled moods inspired by Icelandic landscapes.
Best Of
Echoes August 2019 Top 25: David Pritchard to Angel Olsen
The Echoes Top 25 for August 2019 features the CD of the Month “Evanescent” by David Pritchard at the top, followed by Lamb, Azam Ali, Eve Maret, and 21 more recent recordings.
Playlists
Friday, August 30, 2019 – Echoes Program 1935E
On a Slow Flow Echoes we explore early Japanese ambient music from a collection called Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Environmental, Ambient & New Age Music 1980-1990. We’ll aslo sample another collection: Cosmic Duality, on Astro Pilot.
Coming Up
Thursday, September 12, 2019: Slow Flow Echoes with FLOW
New music by FLOW, the quartet of Fiona Joy, Lawrence Blatt, Jeff Oster and Windham Hill founder Will Ackerman. We’ll also hear guitar-synthesist Mark Dwane on a Slow Flow Echoes.