Echoes

Love on a Real Train is a project put together by percussionist and electronic musician Joachim Cooder, son of Ry Cooder. We talk to Joachim and his wife, singer Juliette Commagere, about a music that lives in the shadowed spaces between worlds.

Ryan Karaziya, better known as Low Roar, is making a heart-wrenching brand of ambient pop with folk-like melodies and ethereal moods. Low Roar sings softly, and speaks that way as well.

Coyote Jump is an ensemble headed up by multi-instrumentalist Colin Farish and Native flute player John-Carlos Perea. They've created a fusion that follows in R. Carlos Nakai's footsteps, taking the Native flute into new dimensions. They talk about it on Echoes.

Frankie Rose is a singer-songwriter who has released an album of evocative electronica pop called Interstellar. She used to play with a group called the Outs, but she's in, on Echoes.

French synthesist Thierry David has been making expansive electronic spacescapes for years and founded his own label, K-Vox. His latest CD, Stellar Connection is the Echoes CD of the Month.