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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Eve Maret brings her synthesizers and vocal processing to perform the music of her debut album, No More Running, live. Maret is a resolutely electronic artist, influenced by ’70s and ’80s electropop.
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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.
Meat Beat Manifesto is the legendary British electronic artist who came up during the industrial and trip-hop sampling days. Founder Jack Dangers is a scholar of electronic music.
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by Steve Hackett, formerly the guitarist with Genesis. We’ll also hear a classic 70s track by German electronic pioneer, Klaus Schulze.