Ambient chamber composer Kevin Keller goes spiritual when heart surgery stops his heart from beating. He contemplates that experience on his album, The Front Porch of Heaven.
NPR’s Bob Boilen is more than the host of Tiny Desk Concerts and All Songs Considered. He’s also a composer of music from ambient to punk rock. We talk about his pandemic album Hidden Smiles.
SUSS is the tripped-out band that merges country, ambient, and psychedelic music and their side project, Numün. Are they ambient Americana or psychedelic country. We suss it out.
Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds talks about his new album, Some Kind of Peace. He pares-down to a simpler sound for music of introspection. Join us with Ólafur Arnalds on Echoes.
Lisa Gerrard returns in full force. She was barely on the last Dead Can Dance album, but her ecstatic sound is all over a new collaboration called Burn. We’ll also hear from All India Radio.
Ambient chamber composer Kevin Keller goes spiritual when heart surgery stops his heart from beating. He contemplates that experience on his album, The Front Porch of Heaven.
NPR’s Bob Boilen is more than the host of Tiny Desk Concerts and All Songs Considered. He’s also a composer of music from ambient to punk rock. We talk about his pandemic album Hidden Smiles.
The German duo Grandbrothers, who play a grand piano hooked up with electronics and a machine for an orchestral sound. Then Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy take us on a trip to Ravenna.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Eric Hilton, one half of the brain trust of Thievery Corporation. His album, Infinite Everywhere is a laid-back ambient lounge release.
Singer-songwriter Marya Stark has a celestial approach to lyrics. Last year she released the album, Sapphire, co-produced with Joshua Penman of the electronic project, Akara.