Jean-Michel Jarre’s 1976 album, Oxygene remains one of the signposts of electronic music. He returns to it with Oxygene 3 as he prepares to embark on his first ever US. Tour. He talks about his electronic evolution 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.
Coming up on a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by Bing & Ruth, the ambient chamber music group from New York and the latest from German electronic artist, Der Waldläufer tonight on Echoes.
Coming up on Echoes, it’s new music by Sohn, an English singer-songwriter living in Vienna and turning his songs into a rustic ambient sound on his new album, Rennen.
Ry X is a musician from Australia who resides in that zone of ambient folk music like Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens and Fink. He released a beautiful album last year called Dawn that draws from his surfer boy childhood in Australia, life in Berlin, and his global travels.
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.