Pat Metheny Unity Band & Bruce Hornsby Longwood Gardens August 7, 2014 It takes some ability, a sense of authority and command of your audience, and some deep understanding to turn a show around 180 degrees in mood and intent. Pat Metheny exhibited all of that last night when he played the outdoor theatre at…
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We revisit an interview from 25 years ago with Jon Hassell. The legendary creator of Fourth World Music, collaborator with Brian Eno and Talking Heads talks about his 1989 album, City: Works of Fiction, recently reissued in a deluxe box set.
Lana Del Rey’s new album Ultraviolence is intensely melodic and luxuriously melancholy. It’s an album that somehow fits on Echoes more than any other place.
Echoes goes undercover for an entire show of cover songs. There have been a lot of unusual ones out lately, including Lo-Fang’s take on a song from Grease and The Capsules’ down-tempo trawl through Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive.”
Guitarist Richard Leo Johnson pushed the limits of Michael Hedges-inspired extended technique before going completely out-there with an Americana music of the imagination. His new album, Celeste, posits the idea of an alien abduction.
We revisit an interview from 25 years ago with Jon Hassell. The legendary creator of Fourth World Music, collaborator with Brian Eno and Talking Heads talks about his 1989 album, City: Works of Fiction, recently reissued in a deluxe box set.
Lana Del Rey’s new album Ultraviolence is intensely melodic and luxuriously melancholy. It’s an album that somehow fits on Echoes more than any other place.
There’s some great CDs in the Echoes Top 25 for July. Leading the way is Yoed Nir’s CD of the Month, The Next Dream. He’s one of two cello albums to make the list. The other is first timer Maya Beiser with her album of cello covers, Uncovered.
Kaya Project is the Ethno-Techo outlet for Seb Taylor. He’s just released a new album called Firedance that ups the rhythmic ante in a frenzy of darbuka grooves and seductive melodies.
New music by Orenda Fink, she’s one half of the duo Azure Ray, and has a new solo album of gentle songs called Blue Dream, and from looping cellist Matthew Schoening who has a new album called Narrow Path.