Eberhard Weber is the legendary German bassist who created one edge of the ECM sound. He can’t play bass anymore, but guitarist Pat Metheny has orchestrated his bass solos into an epic big band composition. Metheny, vibraphonist Gary Burton, and Eberhard Weber talk about this important musician.
Slow Meadow is the performance name of Matt Kidd who started out as a guitarist playing in church and Christian music bands before venturing out on his own ambient journey.
Emile is Emilie Kahn. Ogden is her harp. Together they create a chamber folk music with chiming harp and Kahn’s winsome, childlike voice that manages to find depth and authority.
J Anthony Allen is an academic composer who makes music for the dance floor and the ambient lounge. He talks about it on Echoes.
Forty years ago, Brian Eno released the seminal ambient work, Discreet Music. Now the Canadian group Contact has arranged this piece for nine instrumentalists.
An all-instrumental Slow Flow Echoes includes music from electronic artist Raygun Ballet, New Age duo Anima and a surprisingly ambient soundtrack by film composer Danny Elfman for the movie The End of the Tour.
Chad Kettering started out as a classical trumpet player, but something happened on the way to the concert hall.
Briana Marela sings heavenly songs of unconditional love, rendering them in looping stacked voices. Her new album, All Around Us, is named after a children’s book and her music has that sense of innocence, awe and exploration. She sings live on Echoes.
Paul Bley was a singular voice in jazz and can be credited with discovering Ornette Coleman, Jaco Pastorius and Pat Metheny. He passed on January 3 at age 83. John Diliberto remembers this forgotten artist.
Enya played with Clannad briefly before going solo and came to renown in 1989 with her second album, Watermark which featured the hit single ”Orinocco Flow.”