Singer-songwriter Haroula Rose’s Here the Blue River is an album of poetic beauty, both in the lyrics and the music. Its title is from a Ralph Waldo Emerson poem, and it leads to the water imagery that dominates the metaphorical language of the album.
Six hours of continuous instrumental music that featuring colorful musical imagery. It includes music from Brian Eno, David Arkenstone, Jean-Michel Jarre, Robert Rich, and many others.
It’s electric and acoustic on a Slow Flow Echoes. We’ll hear music from a German artist who records as SiebZehn, or 17, making a dark sequencer based music on Starship Signals.
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Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble is among the premiere world music institutions, bringing together artists form traditional and classical worlds into a sometimes joyous, sometimes challenging fusion. Now they have a documentary film, The Music of Strangers.
Mutual Benefit is a music project of singer-songwriter Jordan Lee. He’s been acclaimed in places like Stereogum and Pitchfork.
On the next Echoes, it’s new music by singer-songwriter Hannah Georgas. She creates an 80s influenced electronic pop on her new album, For Evelyn.
Ron Korb has been making instrumental world music for 3 decades. The Canadian musician and composer plays flutes form all over the world, but especially Asia. He weaves his flute melodies into exotic tapestries that conjure up a world far away and sometimes a world of the imagination.
Singer-songwriter Haroula Rose’s Here the Blue River is an album of poetic beauty, both in the lyrics and the music. Its title is from a Ralph Waldo Emerson poem, and it leads to the water imagery that dominates the metaphorical language of the album.
Aukai is a Hawaiian word that means traveler and that’s just what multi-instrumentalist Markus Sieber does on this expansive yet intimate set of world music chamber pieces.
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The Gloaming Experiments with Traditional Celtic Music in the Echoes Podcast.https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/EchoesPodcast-TheGloaming.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSListen to the interview with The Gloaming above, or download it from iTunes. The first Irish renaissance happened in the 1970s when Irish bands like Planxty, Dedanan and brought virtuosity and more expansive arrangements to Irish traditional music. Then…