Cigarettes After Sex makes a hazy, lo-fi rock more like shoegaze music than pop, but his concert at Wells Fargo Center was stacked with young tween girls you might expect at a Taylor Swift show.
Jaymie Rose Hennegan’s Transition tops the Echoes August 2024, followed by DiN’s 25th anniversary collection of electronic music, Trentmoller, Loreena McKennitt, and 22 other great CDs.
Echoes Extended: Summer’s End 0:00:00 Kristina Bennett Dragonfly Shakti 0:05:01 Smoke Fairies Summer Fades Through Low Light And Trees 0:09:06 Michael Whalen Ode to a Perfect Sunset Watercolor Sky 0:14:19 Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen Sunflowers in the Wind Weathering the Storm 0:18:44 Cheval Sombre Time Waits for No One Time Waits for No…
It’s Summer’s End on the next Echoes. Take a wistful glance back at the sound of summer as we get ready for the turn into fall. Join John Diliberto in a final summer soundscape.
Cigarettes After Sex is a noir-dreampop group fronted by the sultry voice of Greg Gonzalez. They play music from their debut album live. Smoke their live Echoes performance.
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.
Zanias usually sings words, but on her latest album, Ecdysis, she takes inspiration from Dead Can Dance and hallucinogens and goes wordless. We talk to Zanias about her ecstatic singing.
Emma Anderson used to be one of the two singers in the 4AD band Lush, but now she’s out on her own with a more mature, but still ethereal sound. We’ll hear from her album, Pearlies.
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 a book about the influence of world music on western culture.
Our CD of the month is a galactic journey from Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy. The keyboardist and guitarist take a more ambient approach on their album, Spinning on a Cosmic Dime.