Mantras and Kirtan chanting have been sweeping the world for most of this century. A new documentary about the phenomena is now out called Mantra: Sounds into Silence.
On the next Echoes, a new artist explores the intimate side of the singer-songwriter aesthetic when we hear England’s Freya Ridings. She has a deep soulful voice and songs that touch the heart.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, it’s new music from a collection called Alpha Seeds and Valerie Romanoff from her album of east-west meditations called Healing Music Volume 2.
Joni Mitchell is an icon of modern music, the singer-songwriter who created the singer-songwriter aesthetic and blew it up. We go back to her debut album, Song to a Seagull in a Flashback 50.
Cold Specks has sung on some of Moby’s best songs. On her new solo album, Fool’s Paradise she explores her Muslim and Somali heritage in spare, lo-fi, electronic ambiences.
Day equals night. Winter is Melting. Spring is Blooming. Even if those last two aren’t true yet, Echoes has a soundscape to make you think so as we celebrate the Vernal Equinox.
On the next Echoes, a new artist explores the intimate side of the singer-songwriter aesthetic when we hear England’s Freya Ridings. She has a deep soulful voice and songs that touch the heart.
The Nightcrawlers were the reluctant leaders of a Philadelphia music scene that tapped the sounds of German space music. An album of their 1980s cassette releases has just been issued. We dig back to an interview with these lost pioneers of electronic space.
Echoes turns emerald green for our annual St. Patrick’s exploration of all things Celtic. We’ll hear music by Enya, Moya Brennan, Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning, and more
We’ll hear new music by Steve Dinsdale from Radio Massacre International. It’s called Light & Dark and it’s an odyssey of electronic influences from Can to Cluster. We’ll also go Gothic, with several tracks inspired by the sounds from the Middle Ages. John Diliberto has it coming up on Echoes.