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 a Slow Flow Echoes, we head downstream with new music by electronica artist Pantha Du Prince from his album, The Triad. We’ll also hear music from Gustaf Fjelstrom. He plays bass, but you might not guess that from his lush electronic landscapes. He has a new album called Diametric. It’s coming up on a Slow Flow Echoes.
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.
Smoke Fairies released the best seasonal album of 2015 with Wild Winter. Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies, two musicians who have been together since they were twelve, talk about their unique take on the holiday season, one that mixes sentiment with sadness.
Mutual Benefit is a music project created by singer-songwriter Jordan Lee. Over the years, he’s created an orchestral folk sound full of classical strings and lush harmonies. He comes in to play live on Echoes.
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.
Float through the sky on the next Echoes with Erik Scott’s “In the Company of Clouds.” It’s the CD of the Month. Scott creates dreamy ambient pieces with melodic bass leads and pedal steel guitar textures.
Coming up on a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by multi-instrumentalist Matthew Stewart, Mind Transport Tools and a tribute to Greg lake.
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.
There are 12 days of Christmas and on the next Echoes we have 12 months of Echoes CD of the Month Picks. John Diliberto plays tracks off them all from Contact’s Discreet Music in January to this December’s pick, Erik Scott’s In the Company of Clouds.