2016’s New Age Grammy winner was White Sun, a group that turns Hindi mantras into soaring vocal melodies. The group’s singer, Gurujas, writes the melodies that have propelled them to the New Age forefront.
Singer William Fitzsimmons was a psychological therapist and he brings that sense of introspection into his deep, somewhat ambient compositions. We talk with William Fitzsimmons about his career.
Electronic musician Ian Boddy takes us on a journey of classic sequencer driven space music when he comes in to play live. He dials up the moogs and sequencers.
Thomas Bartlett performs as Doveman and plays in the Celtic group, The Gloaming. Nico Muhly is a contemporary classical composer. Together, they adapt Balinese gamelan to pop.
The latest by two different dream pop artists. We’ll hear some dream pop noir by Cigarettes After Sex and their new single, “Crush” and the latest by English chanteuse, Lyla Foy on Echoes.
The Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society is less of a fan club and more of an electronic, deep ambient duo with Garry Hughes of Bombay Dub Orchestra and Harvey Jones.
Bassist Erik Scott played psychedelic music, performed with Alice Cooper and Flo and Eddie and has survived cancer. So what does he do at the age of 70? Make beautiful melancholy musc.
On the next Echoes rising EDM star, CloZee comes in to talk about a sound that she has called World Bass. She mixes sampled sounds of global instruments and motifs and mixes them.
On the next Echoes, a legend of ambient and new age music when Laraaji comes in to play live. Laraaji’s 1980 album, Day of Radiance was the 3rd album in Brian Eno’s Ambient series.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, ambient chamber music by pianist Lena Natalia from Lonely Satellite. We’ll also hear new electronic music out of Germany by Thomas Lemmer and Christoph Sebastien Pabst.