Optic Echo Presents

OEP 3/1/22: Part Timer guest mix

Part Timer is back for a 2022 OEP guest mix (thank you John)! We highly recommend checking out his Bandcamp page:

https://parttimer.bandcamp.com/

00.00 Enrico Coniglio and Matteo Uggeri - j'essaie de reduire mes medicaments
02.40 Bluhm - the mirror of my soul
06.30 Gallowglas - the gloaming
09.08 Origamibiro feat. VDU - morel
13.03 Midori Hirano - patterns
17.55 Asa Chang and Junray - hana
24.08 Panoptique Electrical - the whisper in your head
24.50 Soley - blows up
29.51 Erik Enocksson - what drove her shivering into the cold, cold sea
33.44 Gilded - erosional
37.17 Alapastel - new world healing centre

OEP 2/15/22: City of Dawn guest mix

Big thank you to City of Dawn for providing this week's guest mix. For more information (including some top notch collaborations w/ Zaké), check the following links:

https://linktr.ee/cityofdawnmusic 
https://cityofdawn.bandcamp.com 

City Of Dawn- Inland 0:00
Housekeys- If you want to go to Sleep 4:39
Christina Giannone- Telepathy 12:10
Andrea Cortez- I am Listening 18:00
ATOP- An invisible Presence 23:40
Isaac Helsen - White Pine (With Christina Giannone) 31:44
Hakobune- Second-hand sunlight 36:23
Joshua W Bruner – Somehow Sleeping 44:00
Billow Observatory- Red Morning 46:23
Diane Arkenstone- Bathed in Light 51:30
City of Dawn- For my Parents 55:40

OEP 1/11/22: Reliqs guest mix

Huge thank you to Reese for providing the first guest mix of the year. For more information on him check his website at:
https://reesebowes.com
Listen to a 4 turntable, surround sound set I shared with Reese back in 2016 here: https://www.mixcloud.com/opticecho/oep-41016-4-turntable-set-w-reliqs-at-six/

1 Hildur Guðnadóttir
2 Laura Cannell/Rhodri Davies
3 Judith Tripp
4 Motion Sickness Of Time Travel
5 Sarah Davachi
6 Kali Malone
7 Klara Lewis
8 Sheila Chandra
9 Nicholas Chase/Robin Lorentz
10 Ruth Anderson
11 Sarah Davachi
12 Daphne Oram/Daz Quayle/Andrea Parker
13 Julia Holter
14 Eve Beglarian/Robin Lorentz
15 Johanna Beyer/Allen Strange/Stephen Ruppenthal/David Morse/Brenda Hutchinson/Donald Buchla/Charles A
16 Maria w Horn
17 Pauline Oliveros
18 Julianna Barwick
19 Éliane Radigue/Silvia T arozzi
20 Jocy de Oliveira
21 Kara-Lis Coverdale
22 Pauline Oliveros
23 Motion Sickness Of Time Travel
24 Field Works/Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
25 Jasmine Guffond
26 Else Marie Pade
27 Kelly Moran

OEP Best Vinyl of 2021

Huge thank you to Headphone Commute for supporting my best of mixes for 11 years now! Here's the track list:

Clare Rousay- A Softer Focus b1 
Dialect - Keep Going Under a1 
Andrew Tuttle & Padang Food Tigers- A Cassowary Apart a2 
A Winged Victory for the Sullen- Invisible Cities a6 
Good Weather for an Airstrike- Kenopsia 10” b1 
Félecia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma- Un Hiver En Plein Été b3 
---__--___- The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid a5 
Peter Broderick (Bing & Ruth remix)- The Wind that Shakes the Bramble a4 
Lina Filipovich- Magnificat a2 
Grouper- Shade a1 
Suss- Promise b2 
Zakè & Marine Eyes- Unfailing Love b1 
Jake Muir- Mana a5 
Bell Orchestre- House Music b1 
Anthéne- Held b4 
Lawrence English- Observation of Breath a2 
Awakened Souls & From Overseas- Keep the Orange Sun b3 
Jason Van Wyk- Threads b1 
Space Afrika- Honest Labor a1 
Nosdam + Rayon- From Nowhere to North b1 
One Million Eyes- Brama b3 
Abul Mogard- In Immobile Air b1 
PDP III - Pilled Up on a Couple of Doves a1 
Hollie Kenniff - The Quiet Drift b1 
Valance Drakes- A Patternless and Endless Soul a1 
Drape- Poem to Night b1

OEP 9/21/21: Keep The Orange Sun guest mix

Huge thank you to Keep the Orange Sun for providing the guest mix this week. The trio split things up with James Bernard taking the beginning, From Overseas mixing the middle, and Marine Eyes closing out the set. 

New album out this Friday on Past Inside the Present:
https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/keep-the-orange-sun

From Overseas- California sound collage
Squarepusher- Tommib Help Buss (0:09) 
Bochum Welt- La Nuit (2:05)
Jordi Savall- Prelude Pour Mr. Vauquelin (5:57)
Murcof- Rostro (7:32)
Radiohead- Treefingers (14:46) 
Hammock-Always Before Your Eyes (18:22) 
Slowdive- Rutti (21:54) 
Cocteau Twins- Pearly Dewdrops’ Drops (31:47) 
Keep The Orange Sun- Keep The Orange Sun (35:52) 
Julianna Barwick- Forever (39:50)
Jonas Munk- Minimum Resistance (44:51)
poemme- symphony of meadow (49:45)
From Overseas- California sound collage

Optic Echo Presents 8/17/21

Claire Rousay + More Eaze- An Afternoon Whine a2.2 https://clairerousaymoreeaze.bandcamp.com
Jason Van Wyk- Threads b3 https://n5md.bandcamp.com/album/threads
Sarah Davachi + Ariel Kalma- Intemporel b2 https://blacksweat.bandcamp.com/album/intemporel
Andrew Tuttle + Padang Food Tigers- A Cassowary Apart a2 https://padangfoodtigers.bandcamp.com/album/a-cassowary-apart
Eevee- Seeds b6 https://eeveebeats.bandcamp.com/album/seeds
Kreng- L’Autopsie Phénoménale De Dieu a3 https://kreng.bandcamp.com/album/lautopsie-ph-nom-nale-de-dieu
City of Dawn- Where the World Quietly Sing Their Song b2 https://elgranerecords.bandcamp.com/album/where-the-world-quietly-sing-their-song
On- Something That Has Form and Something That Does Not a1
AM Boy- s/t a3 https://attacknine.bandcamp.com/album/am-boy
Clickits- s/t a2 

Optic Echo Presents
Tuesday evenings 6-8pm PST
91.1 / 107.1 FM PDX
www.xray.fm

Optic Echo Presents 7/13/21

Christina Vantzou- Six Cellos for Sol Lewitt a1.2 http://sonicpieces.com/release/six-cellos-for-sol-lewitt/ 

Murcof- The Alias Sessions a3 https://murcofmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-alias-sessions 

Max Richter- Voices 2 a1 https://www.maxrichtermusic.com/2021/03/29/voices-2-released-9-april-2021/ 

Dr. Atmo & Mick Chillage- Ruhleben c1 https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/ruhleben 

Zakè and Marine Eyes- Unfailing Love b2 https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/unfailing-love 

Space Afrika- Untitled (To Describe You) 10” b3 https://sferic.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-to-describe-you-ost 

Marcus Fischer- Monocoastal a3 https://marcus-fischer.bandcamp.com/album/monocoastal-10th-anniversary-edition 

Knxwledge- Kauliflower a2.1 https://knxwledge.bandcamp.com/album/kauliflowr 

Land Trance- First Séance a5 https://landtrance.bandcamp.com/album/first-s-ance 

Florian TM Zeisig- Music for Parents b2 https://metronrecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-parents 

Bre’r- Bathing for the Betterment of Cold Drink b4

Eluvium- Virga II b1 https://eluvium.bandcamp.com/album/virga-ii 

OEP 5/25/21: Fragile X guest mix

Big thank you to Fragile X for providing the guest mix this week, who runs the Bricolage label out of Glasgow, Scotland. For more information on him and his music, check out his bandcamp and soundcloud below: 

https://soundcloud.com/fragilex
https://twitter.com/fragilex13

01. Fragile X - Departure From Nowhere (Maps for the Lost) / 0:00 
02. Patricia Wolf - The House By The Pond ( Slow Sketch : Volume 2) / 03:12 
03. Natalie Beridze - Waves Future ( DE - Sounds from Georgia) / 06:22 
04. Cyme - Biyangdo (Jeju VA) / 09:23 
05. Iuna Niva - To Grow The Hands, To Bend The Spine (Six Ways To Bend The Yoke Of God) / 15:42 
06. Jorengthericecake - Media Of Testimony (Seasons 2020 S/S) / 19:44 
07. Obay Alsharani - Nattåg (Sandbox) / 25:04 
08. Artefakt - The Lost Centre (Monsoon) / 28:08 
09. Modeo - Nobody Sleeps (3 Years of Oslated VA) / 31:21 
10. Fragile X - Reverie (Between Worlds) / 34:27 
11. Minimal Drone GRL - Cross Country 365 Days (Ancestral Origins) / 39:56 
12. Leit Motif - A Lovers Reincarnation (Till We Have Faces) / 52:00 
13. Gallery Six - A Wonderfully Ordinary Life (Blue In The Midsummer) / 57:23 
14. Fabio Orsi - Just For A Thrill 1 (Just For A Thrill) / 60:45 

Optic Echo Presents 5/18/21

KMRU- Logue b1 https://kmru.bandcamp.com/album/logue-2
Ilyas Ahmed + Jefre Cantu-Ledesma- You Can See Your Own Way Out a1 https://shiningskullstudio.bandcamp.com/album/you-can-see-your-own-way-out
Mary Lattimore- At the Dam a2 https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-dam
Andrew Chalk- Higan a1 https://andrewchalk.bandcamp.com/album/higan
Innode- Syn b2 https://innode.bandcamp.com/album/syn
Lali Puna- Our Inventions a3 https://lalipuna.bandcamp.com/album/our-inventions
Bohren & der Club of Gore- Black Earth d1 https://bohrenundderclubofgore.bandcamp.com/album/black-earth
Zakè & City of Dawn- Frizzell & Duque: A Sorrow Unrequited a1 https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/album/frizzell-duque-a-sorrow-unrequited

Optic Echo Presents
Tuesday evenings 6-8pm PST
107.1 / 91.1 FM KXRY Portland
Streaming www.xray.fm

OEP 5/4/21: thiefteam (Form The Head) guest mix

Thank you to thiefteam for providing the guest mix this week. Jason helms the highly recommended Form the Head podcast (and record label), highlighting PNW ambient, experimental, and electronic artists in long form conversations.

www.formthehead.net 
www.soundcloud.com/thiefteam 

0:00 SciFiSol - Hypnosis Black Ocean - Alien Tung 
1:50 Synth Witch - The Ritual (Drumless Mix) - Synth Witch 
4:55 meroitic - garden - vital body 
7:21 Naarky (micrometerman mono) - quickening-gathering (light shower mix) - stop the world and delay it while it catches back up 
12:40 Patricia Wolf - Pas De Deux - Sotto Le Stelle 
15:40 Felisha Ledesma - 7-00 AM (excerpt) - Sweet Hour 
17:46 Production Unit Xero - Stirring - Music For Astral Travel Vol 1- Shadows and Reflections (HTX054) 
23:15 Joel Shanahan - Floating Figure Sleeps Alone - Frozen Clock Hovering 
27:45 Shanna Sordahl - When Blood Turns To Bone (excerpt) - When Blood Turns To Bone 31:01 dweomer - The Tramman Elder - Crann Ogham 
34:30 Moss Wand - Sun Worship (excerpt) - Ritual Vibrations 
37:45 Marcus Fischer + Ted Laderas - February 29th (excerpt) - February 29th 
41:30 user 18081971 - qu 1 - qu 1 
44:25 Hugo R.A. Paris - Heliophagis - Threaded Habitat 
47:55 St.Petersburg Sound Systems - Oblachnost - PTM 003 - Oblachnost EP 
50:25 Torrey Pines - Sunshine Through the Rain - Overlook 
56:30 Tomu DJ - Wild Woods - Ambient 2 
64:40 Elrond - Segment Three (excerpt) - Spark 

Optic Echo Presents 
Tuesday evenings 6-8pm PST 
107.1 / 91.1 FM KXRY Portland 
Streaming www.xray.fm