Joe Boyd is a legend in music, from producing Pink Floyd and Nick Drake, to his Hannibal world music label, and more. Now he’s written about the influence of world music on western culture.
Loreena McKennitt revisits her classic album, The Mask and Mirror. She’s currently touring that album in Europe, and released a live album from 1994 for the original’s 30th anniversary.
On the next Echoes new music from the psychedelically-inclined artist, Washed Out. That’s Ernest Weatherly Greene Jr, and his new album is Notes from a Quiet Life. It always seems quiet on Echoes.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, a joyous electronic track from Covenant Blue and a drifting symphonic work by Max Richter off his new album, In a Landscape, which takes its title from a John Cage work.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, a new single from Austrian composer, Gandalf. We’ll also hear from Lis Addison, tapping the natural sounds of Kenya. It’s part of the soundscape with John Diliberto.
On Echoes 35th Anniversary we go back to the very first show from October 2, 1989. It will have music on it you’ve loved and music that you may have forgotten, but it’s a trip to the past.
It’s Long Tracks 7 on the next Echoes. Time is stretched with the debut album from electronic artist Patrick Gleeson, Philip Glass’s Music in 12 Parts, Emerald Web and Bill Nelson.
Sean Ono Lennon, the son of John and Yoko, is following his parents’ path of exploratory music and psychedelics. We talk about his brilliant instrumental album, Asterisms.