New music by Indarra, an entrancing band with a supernatural Basque name centered on the declamatory vocals of Sue Hutton. We’ll also hear the latest by the chant trio White Sun on Echoes.
Ed Harris was raised on heavy metal but went ambient. As Edamame he uses field recordings made on his phone, sampling birds and outside chatter and turning it into percussion and melody.
Dead Can Dance talk about their conceptual album, Dionysus, a wedding of Greek mythology, tribal culture and global ritual sounds. Brendan Perry talks about hallucinogens to ecstasy on Echoes.
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 the next Echoes, The November CD of the Month, Dead Can Dance’s Dionysus. This is a new chapter as Brendan Perry conceives a mostly instrumental, ritualistic concept album based on the Dionysian myth.
Music by Freya Ridings. We’ll also hear another ambient chamber masterwork from Ólafur Arnalds, from his album Re:Member.
Music from singer Neko Case who recently released a harder edged album called “Hell-On.” We’ll also hear music by Warren Harrison, the electronic half of the duo, Hungry Lucy.
It’s an Echoes Halloween. We take you through a haunted forest of sound as we hear drums, guitars, synths that go bump in the night and other scary things.
Singer Olivia Chaney has recorded in the folk rock group Offa Rex with The Decemberists, but there is more than folk to this enchanting singer with a lilting, classic British voice.
On the next Echoes, The November CD of the Month, Dead Can Dance’s Dionysus. This is a new chapter as Brendan Perry conceives a mostly instrumental, ritualistic concept album based on the Dionysian myth.