On their last tour before pandemic, California Guitar Trio recorded an album’s worth of songs that explore their virtuosity and intricacy. That album, Elegy, is the August CD of the Month.
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Monday, Aug 3, 2020 – Echoes Program 2031A
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Weekend, Aug 1-2, 2020 – Programs 2030A & 2030B
Ben Blackett plugs in computers instead of guitars to create dance floor trances and melodic contemplations. He talks about virtual synthesizers, choir samples, and his wife’s voice on Echoes.
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Friday, July 31, 2020 – Echoes Program 2030E
We explore the ambient chamber music of Naneum. On his album, Life Cycle he recorded a local choir singing their traditional music but then sliced it up into his own arrangements.
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Thursday, July 30, 2020 – Echoes Program 2030D
We’ll hear music by Dubmatix from a new EP called Dubmatix AKA which finds the band in more chilled downtempo terrain. We’ll also hear from veteran progressive rock band Soft Machine.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2020 – Echoes Program 2030C
New music from Thomas Lemmer. The German electronic artist has a new EP of his downtempo moods and a new band, Numun, a project with members of the ambient guitar band, Suss.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2020 – Echoes Program 2030B
Jim Ottaway lives on the Gold Coast of Australia and his music heads into the oceans of space. He came to electronic music late in life but he’s released two dozen albums in last decade.
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Monday, July 27, 2020 – Echoes Program 2030A
Ben Blackett plugs in computers instead of guitars to create dance floor trances and melodic contemplations. He talks about virtual synthesizers, choir samples, and his wife’s voice on Echoes.
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Weekend, July 25-26, 2020 – Programs 2029A & 2029B
We talk to Yppah, a band that makes a joyful sound out of psychedelia, hip-hop and minimalism. Then Nicolas Godin has a new solo album out that began as an architectural art project.
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Friday, July 24, 2020 – Echoes Program 2029E
New music by dream pop singer Sohn & the Metropole Orchestra 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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Thursday, July 23, 2020 – Echoes Program 2029D
Simon Posford of Shpongle has a new album of ambient moods, Flux & Contemplation and Tom Holkenborg a.k.a. Junkie XL, has a new soundtrack for White Lines. Go outside the lines on Echoes.