Cold Specks is the performance name of Ladan Hussein. She’s sung on some of Moby’s best songs. On her album, Fool’s Paradise she explores her Muslim and Somali heritage in spare, lo-fi, electronic ambiences.
We’ve sorted through the hundreds of albums, singles, CDs and downloads we got this year, picked out the ones that we think pushed the Echoes envelope, and tabulated The Best of Echoes 2017.
We head east on Echoes for our December CD of the Month. It’s by Japanese composer Hiroki Okano. He’s a multi-instrumentalist working in nature based ambient music as well as electronic dance music. He has a new album of pastoral dreams called Return to the Soul.
On the next Echoes, it’s music from a former Sneaker Pimp when we hear Lucas Oswald’s dreampop album, Whet as in whet your blade. We’ll also hear the duo called Kllo. It glows on Echoes.
In 1967 the Rolling Stones went psychedelic, cosmic and a little bit demonic with the album, Their Satanic Majesties Request. We’ll hear a cosmic track from that record.
It’s the sultry sounds of Charlotte Gainesbourg on Echoes when we hear new music from the French singer off her album, Rest. And electronic artist Tomas Barfod has a new album of downtempo moods called Paloma.
Balmorhea is a band from Austin exploring a deeper, more intimate sound. They play ambient chamber music with a western twang. They return for their third live Echoes appearance.
We head east on Echoes for our December CD of the Month. It’s by Japanese composer Hiroki Okano. He’s a multi-instrumentalist working in nature based ambient music as well as electronic dance music. He has a new album of pastoral dreams called Return to the Soul.
Genius arrived on November 27, 75 years ago with the birth of Jimi Hendrix. We’re going to look back on Hendrix’s influence with artists like Nels Cline, The Kronos Quartet, Moby and Throbbing Gristle.
On a Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear new music by California electronic duo Ascendant from Particle Horizon and the latest by bassist Gustaf Fjelstrom from the album, Prologue.