Merrin Karras is the performance name used by Irish musician Brendan Gregoriy, as his vehicle for ambient electronic sounds born in analog synthesizers. Brendan Gregoriy talks about the metal exorcism of Merrin Karras.
Ed Harris is another musician who was raised on metal but went into ambient electronic music instead. As Edamame uses field recordings made on his phone for some percussive sounds samples of birds chirping and outside chatter.
Get your notepads ready. It’s the Best of Echoes 2016. This past year was a truly great one for albums and John Diliberto has made the difficult choice of picking his favorites.
Christmas becomes serene with Sonic Seasonings. The British duo Smoke Fairies play their original Christmas songs form their album Wild Winter and harp Guitarist Muriel Anderson plucks through seaosnal favorites and originals.
On an Echoes Christmas Soundscape get the sugar plums dancing with music from Smoke Fairies “Wild Winter,” SHEL’s “Winter Fairyland” and Tom Caufield’s “I Heard It Was Christmas Day.”
Get ready for the big chill on an Echoes Winter Solstice. John Diliberto creates a soundscape of snow shrouded trees, silent saquaro cactus and white out conditions.