Thomas Dolby was an early avatar of electro-pop with hits like “She Blinded Me with Science” but now he’s a Professor at the Peabody Institute. We go back to the future and forward again.
On the First Slow Flow Echoes of 2018 we have new music by Mark Peters of the English shoegaze band Engineers, and a new album from electronic musician, Saul Stokes
There’s a lot of new music to start the new year including debuts from NOMAN with singer Kaat Arnaert, and another great collection from Sine Music, Offline, Vol.2.
If you’ve seen the Irish singer Hozier for the last two years you may have noticed his cellist who also sings with him. Her name is Alana Henderson and she has her own music out. We’ll hear her latest single.
We’ve sorted through the hundreds of albums, singles, CDs and downloads we got this year, picked out the ones that we think pushed the Echoes envelope, and tabulated The Best of Echoes 2017.
Gracie and Rachel are a duo creating a sublime chamber pop that mixes the neo-minimalism Max Richter with heartfelt, but oblique songs. It’s the Echoes CD of the Month for January.
In this Christmas season, get the sugar plums dancing with an Echoes Christmas. It’s serene Christmas with music from Smoke Fairies’ Wild Winter, SHEL’s Christmas, and Tom Caufield’s I Heard It Was Christmas Day.
We’ll hear music by The National. Their album, Sleep Well Beast, is nominated for some Grammy awards. We’ll also hear a classic by Tangerine Dream going back to their 1976 album, Stratosfear.
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.
A live concert from FLOW, the new age supergroup featuring pianist Fiona Joy, guitarist Lawrence Blatt, trumpeter Jeff Oster and guitarist Will Ackerman.