We’ll hear something from the first chanteuse of trip-hop, Beth Gibbons. She was the voice of Portishead, but now she’s solo. We’ll also hear new music by Olivia Chaney from Circus of Desire.
Playlists
Tuesday, Mar 12, 2024 – Echoes Program 2411B
Year: 2024
Coming Up
Monday, Mar 25, 2024 – Lou Reed Interview Revisited
Before he died in 2013, Lou Reed created an ambient album called Hudson River Wind Meditations, which is now being re-released in a deluxe edition. We go back to our interview with Reed.
Playlists
Monday, Mar 11, 2024 – Echoes Program 2411A
It’s Quiet Resonance on the next Echoes when we talk to Tony Pounders. As Quiet Resonance, he composes guitar orchestrations that range from ambient to pastoral to pure space.
Coming Up
Weekend, Mar 23-24, 2024 – Kaleida Interview
Kaleida are a dream-pop duo from England and America sculpting a personal sound born from evocative, but minimally deployed electronics and sensual singing. Their new album is In Arms.
Playlists
Weekend, Mar 9-10, 2024 – Programs 2410A & 2410B
The March CD of the Month, Hollan Holmes’ Sacred Places. Hollan sees beauty and the spirit in his home state of Texas and turns it into melodic, sequencer reveries. We explore Sacred Places.
Coming Up
Friday, Mar 22, 2024 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Bruno SanFilippo. He’s Argentine-born but based in Spain. He has crafted an album inspired by social media called Redes, which is Spanish for network.
Playlists
Friday, Mar 8, 2024 – Echoes Program 2410E
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we get amorphous with Forrest Fang. The eclectic composer has a new album called The Lost Seasons of Amorphia combining synthesizers with zithers, gamelan, and gu-zheng.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Big Ears Founder Ashley Capps
Reviews & Commentary
Big Ears Festival 2024: A Path Through
Big Ears Festival 2024 is a mass of new music and it presents many conflicts in scheduling for those subject to FOMO. But John Diliberto says Forget FOMO in his planned Big Ears path.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 February: Steve Roach on Top
Steve Roach’s The Desert Winds of Change tops the Echoes February 2024, followed by Mitski, Maps, Quiet Resonance and 21 more great releases. See if your favorites made the list!