Ron Boots is a prolific Dutch electronic artist who has been recording since the 1980s when he released his music on cassette. He’s a musical child of German space music and his music is full of Tangerine Dream style sequencer drive and Vangelis style drama.
Echoes American Landscapes, a soundscape for July 4th with a live performance by acclaimed oboist Jill Haley. She plays in the band One Alternative, and is one of Windham Hill founder Will Ackerman’s stable of first call musicians. Her latest album is National Park Soundscapes, which is just perfect for July 4th.
Truth is a Beautiful Thing and so is the music that London Grammar makes on their new album. The English dreampop trio has released one of the most powerfully contemplative albums of the year.
We survey the first six months of the year for our favorite albums. Among them are Wilsen’s I Go Missing in My Sleep, Jean-Michel Jarre’s Oxygene 3, and Mike Oldfield’s Return to Ommadawn.
Coming up on the next Echoes, it’s new music by the dream-pop band London Grammar and a singer from New Orleans named Maggie Koerner goes down deep on a new EP produced by Fink
Coming up on Echoes Slowdive returns with their first new album in 22 years. And Liset Alea, one of the voices of Nouvelle Vague, released a new album called Heart-Headed.
The Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society is less of a fan club and more of an electronic, deep ambient duo with Garry Hughes of Bombay Dub Orchestra and Harvey Jones.
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.
We survey the first six months of the year for our favorite albums. Among them are Wilsen’s I Go Missing in My Sleep, Jean-Michel Jarre’s Oxygene 3, and Mike Oldfield’s Return to Ommadawn.
Michael Hewett is a finger-style guitarist inspired by Michael Hedges’ two-handed tapping approach, but he has found his own way, creating a deeply melodic music and using enhanced guitar processing to create an enveloping sound. He’s also a Yoga Master.