Bella Gaia, or Beautiful Earth is a massive multi-media project put together by violinist and electronic composer Kenji Williams. Williams and singer/pianist Kristin Hoffmann come in to Echoes to play music from Bella Gaia live.
Smoke Fairies have released the best seasonal album of 2015 with Wild Winter. It’s a different kind of winter CD, and it’s beautiful. Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies come into Echoes to play music from Wild Winter and some earlier songs live.
The sound of Enya is one of the most recognizable in music. She’s not very prolific, just four albums in the 21st century. Her latest is Dark Sky Island and it has all the signature Enya sounds that audiences have come to love.
On a Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear guitarists Dave Preston & Ian Ethan Case with two different approaches to guitar orchestrations..
Brian Eno’s “Discreet Music,” released 40 years ago, is the seminal work of ambient music. A Toronto new music group arranges it for acoustic instruments.
Here’s a taste of what you’ll hear next Monday, December 7, when Smoke Fairies come in to play live on Echoes. Smoke Fairies have released the best seasonal album of 2015 with Wild Winter.
It’s another amazing month of music at Echoes with Kevin Keller’s magnificent CD of the Month, La Strada, leading the Echoes Top 25 for November. But check out some of the others like the #2 album, a wonderful collection of melodic electronics called Autumn Time Volume 3.
We travel from slow-core pastoral rock to ambient electronic music when we hear the latest by the Lancaster based band, The Innocence Mission and the English electronic pop group, Radium 88.
Jamie Sieber was at the leading edge of a new generation of cellists taking the most soulful of symphonic strings in new directions, looping her cello and using electric guitar-style effects. She comes in to create her looping cello chamber works live.