OnDeadWaves is the gothic Americana shoegaze project of James Chapman from Maps and Polly Scattergood. As OnDeadWaves they’ve created a gothic western noir sound that explores themes of loss, alienation, addiction and desolation.
Gileah Taylor is a singer-songwriter from the Florida Panhandle who sings songs of love, the spirit and science fiction. She comes in with her looping station to sing live on Echoes.
Coming up on Echoes we’ll hear a couple of artists exploring an ambient pop sound. Ry X, is a musician from Canada an album called Under Water and we’ve got Baby Alpaca, a whimsical name for a group that has Depeche Mode in their DNA.
Last October, legendary French electronic musician Jean-Michel Jarre released his collaborative album, Electronica 1: The Time Machine. Now he’s put out the second volume, The Heart of Noise.
Maia Vidal started in music playing hard edged punk Now she makes reflective dream pop playing instruments like the autoharp. Maia Vidal talks about her life and her new album, You’re the Waves.
Hans Christian is a musician of the world. Classically trained on cello in his native Germany, he now plays Indian instruments like the sarangi and sitara and the Swedish nyckelharpa.
Echoes goes country, but not the way that might imply. Guitarist William Tyler has a new album out called Modern Country that employs his Nashville heritage but takes it into minimalist, ambient and experimental spaces.