Michael Whalen is a skilled keyboardist and composer who has nearly 20 albums to his name ranging from electronic ambiences to solo pianos in reverb. His latest album, Dream Cycle, is inspired by his difficulties with sleep and health. He plays live on Echoes.
Mike Oldfield is best known for his 1973 epic, Tubular Bells, but one of his most beloved recordings is his third album, 1975’s Ommadawn. Like Tubular Bells it was two, side-long journeys, this time into a sound that was pastoral, Celtic and African.
On the next Echoes, it’s the guitar orchestrations of Daniel Voth. He’s a journeyman musician inspired by Andy McKee’s two-handed tapping techniques.
Thievery Corporation go into the land of dub when we hear new music from their Jamaican infused CD, The Temple of I & I. We’ll also hear a gentle and serene song by Bonobo from his new album Migration, featuring the duo called Rhye.
Erik Scott has played bass with Alice Cooper and Flo & Eddie. He also co-founded the R&B band, Sonia Dada. But in his case, past wasn’t prologue to the instrumental soundscapes of his album, In the Company of Clouds. John Diliberto talks to Erik Scott about heavy metal, pedal steel guitar and cancer.
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.
The three headed guitar monster known as The California Guitar Trio return to play live on Echoes. CGT has a new album called Komorebi, a return to a pure acoustic guitar sound.
On the next Echoes, it’s the guitar orchestrations of Daniel Voth. He’s a journeyman musician inspired by Andy McKee’s two-handed tapping techniques.
We talk to one of the most venerable of American Progressive Rock groups, Djam Karet. They’ve been making music for over 30 years, starting out inTheir 18th album is Sonic Celluloid
New music by the French cover band, Nouvelle Vague from their album I Could Be Happy and violin rock band Chances End cover a Jefferson Airplane song.