One of the most distinctive guitarists of the last 50 years has been Terje Rypdal. He’s legendary in jazz and fusion circles for his many albums on ECM records since his 1971 debut.
Marriage is tough and you can hear why when Echoes talks to author Jenny Hollowell and producer Daron Hollowell. As husband and wife they are Nights and Weekends and on their album, Music for Marriage, they dissect their relationship in wonderful, atmospheric songs.
She grew up in the wilds of the Australia Outback and listened to her mother’s Billy Joel records, but the Australian artist known as Gordi makes a deep ambient dream pop on her debut album, Reservoir, with production by Alex Somer of Sigur Ros fame
Coming up on Echoes, we’ll hear the sound of Yaima. They are a duo exploring an intersection between New Age mysticism and electronic dance music. They have a new album called Ovo.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, it’s new music from Behind the Shadow Drops. That’s a solo project from Takaakira Goto. He’s the founding member of the Japanese guitar band Mono.
Ireland’s Tiny Magnetic Pets are creating retro electronic pop and they have one of the originators of that sound as a guest, Wolfgang Flur from Kraftwerk. And Chronotope Project returns with Ovum.
It’s new music by Electric Youth who released an ambient film score for a movie that never came out called Breathing. We’ll also hear the ambient guitar band, Hammock from Mysterium.
Coming up on Echoes we go with the Flow. Flow is a new group with pianist Fiona Joy, guitarist Lawrence Blatt, fluegelhorn player Jeff Oster and guitarist and Windham Hill Records founder, Will Ackerman.
Coming up on Echoes, we’ll hear the sound of Yaima. They are a duo exploring an intersection between New Age mysticism and electronic dance music. They have a new album called Ovo.
On the next Echoes, singer Briana Marela turns her gothic choirs into a one-woman girl group. Using live looping and a voice of wide-open innocence, she comes in to sing music from her latest album, Call It Love.