Jan Hammer was the keyboardist from Mahavishnu Orchestra and the creator of the famed Miami Vice TV score. Join us as the 70 year old Hammer casts back on his career and discusses his new music.
Mr. Robot is one of the most original and timely series of the 21st century. Mac Quayle has created an inventive, all-electronic score that taps influences of ambient music and German electronic music.
Mirah has been on the alternative scene for many years, coming out of the indie folk tradition. She released a new album, Understanding, earlier this year. She comes in to play music live on Echoes.
Chad Lawson has released some great ambient chamber albums over the last few years, interpreting Chopin and others. Now he has an album of original music called Re:Piano that sends his piano through all kinds of ambient processing. We'll hear that, along with recent releases by Neko Case, Buck Curran, Olafur Arnalds, and others.
On the next Echoes we hear from Jan Hammer, the keyboardist from Mahavishnu Orchestra and the creator of the famed Miami Vice TV score. Join us as the 70 year old Jan casts back on his career
David Arkenstone goes electronic on Colors of the Ambient Sky, an album of high melody and deep electronic moods and downtempo grooves. It’s Echoes CD of the Month for October
The Echoes Top 25 for September 2018 features the Ólafur Arnalds’ CD of the Month “re:member” at the top, followed by Talitha Rise, and William Fitzsimmons and Dr. Deep House
Electronic musician Jon Hopkins has released a new video for his track, “Singularity” with a riveting apocalyptic dance and fight video that hovers between love, hate and samurai air ballets.
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It was 50 years ago that Wendy Carlos released Switched-On Bach, the album that put the Moog synthesizer and electronic music on the map. We go back with Wendy Carlos in the 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.
After 9 years, a legend returns. Trumpeter Jon Hassell recently released an album called Listening to Pictures.
Coming up on echoes, pianist Chad Lawson goes purely ambient. Lawson has released some great ambient chamber albums over the last few years with interpretations of Chopin and others.
The singer known as Mirah is a legend on the Indie-folk scene where she’s been releasing personal albums. She comes into Echoes to perform her intimate, and painterly songs live.
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.
