Native American flute has been making a return to the Echoes Soundscape and on a Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear two of them, Kenneth Hooper’s Directions and Vicki Logan’s Born Out of Chaos.
It’s dreamy, downtempo music by JFDR, that’s an abbreviation of her more complicated Icelandic name. We’ll also hear electronic music by Spinger from the album, Invisible Tree.
We return to the April 1990 album, Kojiki by Kitaro. It was a landmark recording for the Japanese electronic artist that brought his sound into orchestral and world music terrain.
Nicholas Gunn got bullied as a young flute player, but that’s not why he put down his instrument in favor of electronics. Join John Diliberto when he talks with Nicholas Gunn.
We talk to Gunnar Spardel, who composes somber and serene chamber music under his own name and upbeat, progressive electronic music under the guise of Tigerforest.
Singer Channy Leanagh fell off a roof and broke her back, but that didn’t stop her from recording a great album with her group, Polica. We talk about the album When We Stay Alive.
We hear the multi-keyboard orchestrations of music of Naneum, live. Naneum is Jon Solo, who creates ambient chamber music with piano, synthesizers, Fender Rhodes and Melotron.
It’s Ambient Chamber Music dreams this weekend when we talk with Blue Landscapes and AvaWaves, two very different duos creating a sound merging classical elegance and ambient atmospheres.
Poppy Ackroyd’s album, Resolve was an Echoes CD of the Month two years ago. We catch up with Poppy, who talks about an approach to classical composition informed by punk rock and Radiohead.
Guitarist Lawson Rollins continues his Nuevo Flamenco ways on his album True North. And Aquiver takes us into the down-tempo dub typical of a musician from the Desert Dwellers circle.