We survey the first six months of the year for our favorite albums. Among them are Wilsen’s I Go Missing in My Sleep, Jean-Michel Jarre’s Oxygene 3, and Mike Oldfield’s Return to Ommadawn.
Playlists
Weekend, July 1 & 2, 2017-Echoes Program 1726A
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for June 2017:
Wilsen’s I go Missing in My Sleep leads Echoes June Top 25 followed by the electronic road trip of Johan Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren and the melodic finger stylings of Michael Hewett.
Playlists
Friday, June 30th, 2017-Echoes Program 1726E: The Latest from Maggie Koerner
Coming up on the next Echoes, it’s new music by the dream-pop band London Grammar and a singer from New Orleans named Maggie Koerner goes down deep on a new EP produced by Fink
Playlists
Thursday, June 29th, 2017: Echoes Program 1726D
Coming up on Echoes Slowdive returns with their first new album in 22 years. And Liset Alea, one of the voices of Nouvelle Vague, released a new album called Heart-Headed.
Playlists
Wednesday, June 28th, 2017-Echoes Program 1726C
The Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society is less of a fan club and more of an electronic, deep ambient duo with Garry Hughes of Bombay Dub Orchestra and Harvey Jones.
Playlists
Tuesday June 27th, 2017-Echoes Program 1726B
This year’s unlikely New Age Grammy winners were the trio White Sun, a group that takes Hindi mantras and turns them into soaring vocal melodies. The group is fronted by singer, Gurujas, who writes the melodies that have propelled this group to the New Age forefront.
Best Of
The Best of Echoes 2017. . . . So Far
We pick out our favorite Echoes albums from the first half of 2017. The Top 25 includes progressive rock icons, electronic icons, New Age Icons and Bands who have just released their debut albums.
Playlists
Monday June 26th, 2017-Echoes Program 1726A
We survey the first six months of the year for our favorite albums. Among them are Wilsen’s I Go Missing in My Sleep, Jean-Michel Jarre’s Oxygene 3, and Mike Oldfield’s Return to Ommadawn.
Playlists
Weekend, June 24 & 25, 2017-Echoes Program 1725A
Michael Hewett is a finger-style guitarist inspired by Michael Hedges’ two-handed tapping approach, but he has found his own way, creating a deeply melodic music and using enhanced guitar processing to create an enveloping sound. He’s also a Yoga Master.
Playlists
Friday, June 23rd, 2017-Echoes Program 1725E
On the next Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear music from the soundtrack of The Rise of the Synths and a new album from Thorsten Quaschning and Ulrich Schnauss called Synthwaves.