Olivia Chaney is an English singer-songwriter who is expanding the sound of folk music. She was part of the Grammy-nominated Offa Rex group with The Decemberists and has a new solo album called Shelter. She plays live on Echoes.
We talk to Adam Werner, a former heavy metal guitarist who secretly fell in love with Windham Hill Records. Now he’s an exceptional finger-style musician and harp guitarist with a conceptual approach to his compositions.
Cornelia Murr is a singer-songwriter with a Twin Peaks feel. Her album, Lake Tear of the Clouds was produced by Jim James of My Morning Jacket. We’ll also hear Perfume Genius’s album, No Shape get Reshaped with remixes.
We trip out into space with recent music by Chuck Van Zyl from his epic double live CD, Recitals 2. Van Zyl is an acolyte of German space music and you can hear that sequencer driven sound in his music.
2018 New Age Grammy Award winner Peter Kater comes in to play a set of solo piano improvisations in the mode of his Grammy winning album, Dancing on Water live on Echoes
Talitha Rise’s “An Abandoned Orchid House” is the most perfect album of the year, embodying the authenticity of British folk, the pastoral side of prog and dust with world music touches.
The Echoes Top 25 for July 2018 with All India Radio’s July CD of the Month on Top. Right behind is the August pick, Talitha Rise’s An Abandoned Orchid House, Ólafur Arnalds and more.
Marissa Nadler is a diva of the downer song, swimming through an ocean of regrets and loss with a voice on the sad side of sultry. She has a new video for the song, “Blue Vapors.”
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Guitarist John McLaughlin talks about the psychedelic 60s, spirit transformations and returning to the music of the Mahavishnu Orchestra with Jimmy Herring in Echoes Podcast.
Behind Suzanne Ciani’s sweet, classically-derived melodies is an avant-gardist who came of age with the Buchla modular synthesizer in the 1970s. We hear both sides when she plays live.
Olivia Chaney comes in to play live. She’s an English singer who is expanding the sound of folk music. She was part of the Grammy nominated Offa Rex group with The Decemberists.
On a Friday the 13th Slow Flow Echoes the latest music by Chuck Van Zyl who recently released another epic double live CD with tracks like “From the Shade of the Recent Dead She Comes.”
Coming up on Echoes, the last soundtrack by the late Johann Johannsson. It’s for the movie, Mandy and it’s a bit of a departure for the composer who passed away suddenly in February.
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded the Award-Winning radio program Echoes a $20,000 grant to continue it’s work in bringing new and innovative music to public radio and beyond.
