We put you to sleep with Lullabies for World Sleep Day. Sleep, or the lack thereof, has been a topic of much discussion for a few years now. John Diliberto sends you into your dreams.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, Jeff Johnson and John Van Deusen go deeply ambient. They’ve created a 29-minute music journey called Eremo, which is Italian for refuge. Echoes is always a refuge.
It’s Big Ears on the next Echoes. We’ll talk to founder Ashley Capps about the Big Ears Festival 2024, which includes performances from Laurie Anderson, King Britt, Roger Eno, and about 200 more.
We’ll hear something from the first chanteuse of trip-hop, Beth Gibbons. She was the voice of Portishead, but now she’s solo. We’ll also hear new music by Olivia Chaney from Circus of Desire.
It’s Quiet Resonance on the next Echoes when we talk to Tony Pounders. As Quiet Resonance, he composes guitar orchestrations that range from ambient to pastoral to pure space.
The March CD of the Month, Hollan Holmes’ Sacred Places. Hollan sees beauty and the spirit in his home state of Texas and turns it into melodic, sequencer reveries. We explore Sacred Places.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we get amorphous with Forrest Fang. The eclectic composer has a new album called The Lost Seasons of Amorphia combining synthesizers with zithers, gamelan, and gu-zheng.
New music from Jeff Oster, Vin Downes and Tom Eaton from their album, Seven Conversations. It’s an improvisation in ambient space. We’ll also hear from Deborah Martin and Erik Wollo.
We enter the world of Chant. From Abbess Hildegard von Bingen to contemporary musicians exploring a medieval sound, we’ll hear voices descending from the heavens and tuning the spirit.
Lose yourself in some Long Tracks. We’ll hear four epic pieces all spanning some 20 minutes each. It may be a TikTok world, but Echoes brings us the epics, not just the tidbits.