Pierre Bensusan is such a finger-style guitar legend that Michael Hedges even named a song for him. Echoes revisits a concert with this legendary guitarist.
It’s the halfway point of the year which means it’s time for The Best of Echoes 2016, So Far. Echoes rates their favorite 25 albums of of the first six months of the year.
At the half-way point of the year, we pick the albums that excited us the most thus far in 2016. Miranda Lee Richard’s “Echoes of the Dreamtime” tops the list of 25, followed by All India Radio, Hammock, Radiohead and more.
The sister group from Colorado, SHEL returns to Echoes for their third visit on the heels of their best album yet. It’s called Just Crazy Enough and features some of their most vibrant songs and most elaborate production.
Her name is ironically ostentatious, but her music isn’t. Emmy the Great is Emma-Lee Moss. She was born in Hong Kong, spent her teen years in London, and has bounced between there, New York and Los Angeles.
David Cross was the violinist with King Crimson. Now he has a new project with Sean Quinn called Cross & Quinn. We’ll hear that and new music by Banta.
AeTopus is the name used by Bryan Tewell Hughes to create his electronic music soundscapes. He has degrees in Fine Arts and Psychology, but the music of science fiction and space music got him into synthesizers and soundscapes.
Steve Kimock is a veteran of the jam band scene, although he hates that term. He’s played with just about every member of the Grateful Dead. He talks about his new album of rustic ambient guitar, The Last Danger of Frost on Echoes.