Deepspace is Australian electronic artist Mirko Ruckels. His recent albums, Neon Blue Utopia and Water Planets, are immersive ambient albums wrapped in science fiction stories.
Kasbo is an electronic artist out of Sweden whose music hangs between ambient and EDM. He has a new album, The Learning of Urgency. We’ll hear that, as well as music by Caoilfhionn Rose.
Ralph Towner was an inspiration for the sound of Echoes with his solo work and world fusion group, Oregon. He died on January 18. We remember him with a live 2001 Echoes performance.
Enter the ambient jazz nightclub when we hear Twilight Archive’s album, Dusk Line. Mixing trumpet, deep, slow electronica grooves & ambient lighting, it’s a psychedelic night time journey.
The voice of Azam Ali is heard on TV and films, with the groups Vas and Niyaz, and on several solo releases in a mix of ancient Persian and modern styles. She talks about her latest album, Synesthesia.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, Ian Boddy teams up with German drummer and electronic musician Harold Grosskopf. Grosskopf played on several Klaus Schulze albums and in Ashra and Wallenstein.
It’s another Journey into Long Tracks on the next Echoes. We’ll be hearing the title track to Michael Hoenig’s Departure from the Northern Wastelands, some Mike Oldfield, Nils Frahm, and more.
On the next Echoes, new music by Parra for Cuva. It sounds Latin but it’s a German electronic artist who has a bit of a Latin feel to his downtempo music on the album, Mimose.
The Medieval electronics of Qntal. This brilliant German group, fronted by vocalist Sigrid Hausen, turns medieval texts into electronica songs that seem to come from a cosmic cathedral.
It’s Long Tracks III as we dig into some more expansive sounds for you. It will include a deep ambient meditation, a lost classic of German space music, a world fusion journey, and more.