Laraaji is an icon of ambient and new age music. He was in Brian Eno’s Ambient music series and continues to make music, with his partner, Arji. We talk to Laraaji and Arji on Echoes.
Pianist Chad Lawson came up through classical and jazz, but now he’s creating ambient music, treating his piano with electronic processing to give him a more atmospheric sound.
The world fusion duo Mystic Journey plays live on Echoes, taking us on a journey of global flutes, percussion and beautiful sensual melodies that transform the room into exotic landscapes.
A lot of musicians use environmental ambience in their music, but Massergy actually creates his ambient soundscapes outdoors in a nature preserve. He’s just released his debut album Fire Opal.
Coming up on Echoes, the latest from by Saul Stokes. The electronics wizard created live electronic music with no synthesizers and a setup that looks like an electrician’s workbench.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Djam Karet, the American progressive rock group has a new album that taps into their world music and folk influences called A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof.
Harpist and singer Emilie Kahn creates a probing music with just her harp and voice. She used to record as Emilie & Ogden. Ogden is her harp. It’s still there, when she plays live on Echoes.
Buck Curran, formerly half of the psychedelic folk duo Arborea, is creating his own music born of blues, raga, psychedelia and more. His taking American Primitive guitar global.
The Echoes Top 25 for April 2019 has the CD of the Month “In a Landscape” by California Guitar Trio & Montreal Guitar Trio at the top, followed by UNKLE, Frostlake, Weyes Blood, and 21 more.
Guitarist William Tyler calls his music “rural New Age” with tongue only part way in-cheek. He’s taken the Windham Hill aesthetic, and carried it to new dimensions. He talks about it on Echoes.