On a Slow Flow Echoes we go through Portals, a collection of electronic music sub-titled “A Kosmische Journey”, nodding to roots in 70s German Space music. We’ll also hear Liminal Drifter.
Playlists
Friday, Dec 11, 2020 – Echoes Program 2049E
Month: December 2020
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Dead Can Dance Icons & Harold Budd R.I.P.
Coming Up
Thursday, Dec 24, 2020 – An Echoes Christmas I
Get the sugar plums dancing with an Echoes Night Before Christmas. It’s not your shopping Mall Christmas carols with David Arkenstone’s Native Christmas, and Smoke Fairies Wild Winter.
Playlists
Thursday, Dec 10, 2020 – Echoes Program 2049D
Gracie and Rachel have a new album called Hello Weakness, You Make Me Strong. They talk about influences from classical to hip-hop and music that is beautiful in the midst of pandemic.
Reviews & Commentary
5 Essential Harold Budd CDs.
Harold Budd passed away on December 7th at 84. Here are Five Essential Harold Budd albums from this avatar of ambient chamber music who defined a sound that was unrepentantly beautiful.
Playlists
Wednesday, Dec 9, 2020 – 30 Icons: Dead Can Dance
It’s the fourth Icon of Echoes, Dead Can Dance. This duo of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry have created some of the most transcendent, time-shifting music of the late 20th century.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Dec 23, 2020 – Thomas Lemmer and Sebastian Pabst
It’s a new generation of German electronic artists when we talk to Thomas Lemmer and Sebastian Pabst. They’ve been churning out downtempo dreams and electro-lounge moods at a prolific pace.
News
Harold Budd R.I.P: Leaving the Planet at 84
Harold Budd 1936-2020t: Rest in BeautyAmbient composer and pianist Harold Budd has left the planet, Departing on December 7th, 2020 at the age of 84. And he hated being called an ambient composer as much as being called a New Age one. Harold Budd was on Echoes about a dozen times, playing live at least…
Playlists
Tuesday, Dec 8, 2020 – Echoes Program 2049B
Ambient chamber composer Kevin Keller goes spiritual when heart surgery stops his heart from beating. He contemplates that experience on his album, The Front Porch of Heaven.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Dec 22, 2020 – 12 CDs of the Month
Echoes doesn’t have 12 days of Christmas, but we do have twelve months of Echoes CD of the Month Picks. We’ll go through them, first forward from January and then backwards.