New music by singer Sohn & the Metropole Orckest who turn his electronic pop into pop symphonies. We’ll also hear music from Aukai off their new album of world fusion, Game Trails.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2020 – New Music from Sohn
Tag: World Fusion
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Tuesday, June 2, 2020 – Emancipator Interview
Emancipator is Douglas Appling, an electronic musician who mixes synthesizers, sampled sounds and folk instruments like banjo and dulcimer into a hallucinatory sound. We talk to him on Echoes.
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Friday, May 29, 2020 – Ukulele Titan Taimane Live
Hawaii’s Taimane takes the ukulele and brings uncanny virtuosity and melody to it If you think the ukulele is a novelty instrument for Luaus, then you need to hear Taimane live on Echoes.
Playlists
Thursday, May 14, 2020 – Echoes Program 2019D
Pianist Peter Kater goes Hawaiian. He taps traditional Hawaiian music and musicians and creates a lush landscape around them. We’ll also hear new music by the electronic artist Kayobe.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2020 – Peter Kater Interview
Peter Kater is known for sweetly romantic and deeply introspective music. But there’s another side to this musician, with a dark childhood and beginning as a hitch-hiking itinerant musician.
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Weekend, May 23-24, 2020 – Kevin Braheny & David Helpling
It’s the return of a New Age pioneer when we talk with Kevin Braheny Fortune. Then David Helpling takes us into the runic and oceanic influences of his January CD of the Month, Rune.
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Friday, May 22, 2020 – New Music from Simrit Kaur
It’s new music by Simrit Kaur. She is an extraordinary singer who takes kirtan chants in a rapturous world fusion direction. We’ll hear a track from her latest album, When We Return.
Reviews & Commentary
Sheila Chandra’s Ever So Lonely/Eyes/Ocean Live
Sheila Chandra is one of the most incandescent singers of our time. We go back to a 1992 live performance of “Ever So Lonely” when she was at the height of her musical powers.
Coming Up
Monday, May 18, 2020 – Kevin Braheny Fortune Interview
It’s the return of a New Age pioneer when we talk with Kevin Braheny Fortune. He has three releases of ambient music. He talks about his name change, years of silence and his new music.
Best Of
Echoes April 2020 Top 25: Michael Whalen Sacred Space
The Echoes Top 25 for April 2020 features Michael Whalen’s Sacred Spaces, AVAWaves, Tigerforest Emancipator, Paul Speer, Purity Ring, and 19 other CDs. See if your favorites made the list.