Christie Leneé is a prodigious acoustic player who has absorbed the techniques of artists like Michael Hedges and Leo Kottke. She deploys it live on Echoes.
Hailing from an Island off New South Wales in Australia, Ry X composes ambient pop songs tackling themes of sex, love and the cold of Berlin, one of many places around the globe where he’s lived.
Alu is an enigmatic Los Angeles chanteuse who channels cabaret, electronics and Kurt Weill in her deeply personal and psychological songs that are rife with sometimes macabre metaphors.
Coming up on Echoes, we’ll hear the music behind a provocative video by Norwegian singer, Jenny Hval. It’s a song called “The Great Undressing” from her album, Blood Bitch.
In 1990 Enigma enchanted the world with their album, MCMXC A.D. (1990) mixing gothic chants and electronic moods. Now they return with their first album in eight years, The Fall of a Rebel Angel. Founder Michael Cretu talks about it on Echoes.
Peppino D’Agostino is an acclaimed musician who came up during that second wave of acoustic guitarists in the 1980s with Will Ackerman, Michael Hedges, Alex De Grassi and Preston Reed. He plays live on Echoes.
Alu is an enigmatic Los Angeles chanteuse who channels cabaret, electronics and Kurt Weill in her deeply personal and psychological songs that are rife with sometimes macabre metaphors.
Weyes Blood is the recording personal of singer Natalie Mering. Last year she released Front Row Seat to Earth, a gorgeous song-cycle tackling themes of love, life and existence.