Michael Hedges was an iconoclastic musician who changed a generations approached the acoustic guitar. He died on December 2, 1997. We remember him today with archival interviews on Echoes.
Film composer Jeff Rona has worked with Hans Zimmer, Lisa Gerrard and Jon Hassell. Now he has released his first solo album after 4 decades in music. He talks about “Projector.”
Genius arrived on November 27, 75 years ago with the birth of Jimi Hendrix. We’re going to look back on Hendrix’s influence with artists like Nels Cline, The Kronos Quartet, Moby and Throbbing Gristle.
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by English electronic band Radium 88’s “Perpetual Emotion Machine” and Dungen get remixed on “Haxan Versions by Prins Thomas.”
Two hours of warm and inviting music from the acoustic side of Echoes. This year’s show features virtuoso guitarists Peppino D’Agostino and Christie Leneé in live performance.
Japanese world fusionist Hiroki Okano returns with two new albums of electronic dreams. And we’ll hear the dream pop artist known as Kauf who has released his debut album, Regrowth.
HDLSS (Headless) are children of Kanye West who have gone in a more ambient direction with an ambient soul sound. Hear them do it live when they play tonight on Echoes
Three hours of continuous instrumental music as expansive as a blue sky, including new music from Darshan Ambient, Jeff Pearce, The Irresistible Force, and more.
Tom Caufield is a veteran musician and one of the most inventive and overlooked guitarists around. His albums are conceptual works that take the acoustic guitar beyond what you’d expect. Albums like Moog and Nylon and Forging the Moonlight take the instrument into new terrain. His latest album, Wash the Dusk with Silver, is an ambient chamber music masterpiece.
On the next Echoes, ambient guitarist Jeff Pearce comes in to weave the looped and delay drenched melodies of his latest album, a recording made for the coming winter. It’s called “For the Darker Seasons.”