Singer and songwriter Julia Easterlin started out as a looping musician, but then she collaborated with Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farke Toure, changed her performance name to Hite and got a live band to play her introspective songs.
This year’s unlikely New Age Grammy winners were the trio White Sun, a group that takes Hindi mantras and turns them into soaring vocal melodies. The group is fronted by singer, Gurujas, who writes the melodies that have propelled this group to the New Age forefront.
It’s the return of Suzanne Teng for the Echoes September CD of the Month. With her group, Mystic Journey, Suzanne Teng continues to weave world fusion expanses with her many flutes.
On the next Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear music from the soundtrack of The Rise of the Synths and a new album from Thorsten Quaschning and Ulrich Schnauss called Synthwaves.
New music by Miranda Lee Richards called Existential Beast. Her last album was Echoes CD of the Year in 2016. We’ll hear new music by Falling You, a dream pop band, from Shine.
Violinist Christopher Tignor comes in with his electronic rig, a bass drum and chines and orchestrates a one-man ambient chamber music performance live on Echoes.
Lewis Scaife grew up on Hip-Hop, but when he started recording as Nym, he found a gentler, more trippy and surreal sound, mixing environmental samples and his own electronic sounds.
It’s the return of Suzanne Teng for the Echoes September CD of the Month. With her group, Mystic Journey, Suzanne Teng continues to weave world fusion expanses with her many flutes.
On the next Echoes we go inside the Requiem mass of Hammock’s Mysterium. Hammock’s Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson take their ambient chamber sound to the edge on this heartfelt hymn to a lost relative.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, electronic composer Richard Bone from his Age of Falconry. And Bluetech returns with The 4 Horsemen of the Electrocalypse-The Black Horse.