The live electronica band STS9 goes R&B on their new record The Universe Inside, but we find the one chill, yet souldful track on it. The progressive rock band, The Pineapple Thief, has a lot of chill songs on their new album called Your Wilderness.
Bon Iver takes their laid back sound into abstract space. We’ll hear a track from the album 22, a Million. We’ll also hear from the acclaimed electronic soundtrack to the Netflix series, “Stranger Things” by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein from the group SURVIVE.
Aukai is Markus Sieber’s all-instrumental project operating in an area of pristine sound, rustic roots, and soulful melodies. Markus Sieber talks about his global music journey.
She’s the daughter of Ravi Shankar, the sister of Norah Jones and the leading sitarist in the world. Anoushka Shankar comes in with her ensemble of percussion, shenai and bass to perform music from her album of hybrid Indian sounds, Land of Gold.
The Album Leaf was on the leading edge of Post-rock, creating glitch strewn, melodic and ambient rock landscapes that embodied everything that the word “cinematic” implies. Almost every song on Between Waves has the feel of scenery streaming past a train window, a non-stop, yet shifting panorama of sound.
The sister group from Colorado, SHEL returns to Echoes for their third visit on the heels of their best album yet. It’s called Just Crazy Enough and features some of their most vibrant songs and most elaborate production.
Aidan Knight is a singer-songwriter whose music is slow and introspective with an array of instrumental styles from humming and strumming guitar to more orchestral arrangements. He gets pretty spacey too.
Dave Preston is a guitarist who makes the kind of ambient guitar music that would find him in the company of Robert Fripp, Jeff Pearce or Ashra, but that same music also found him in the company of Justin Timberlake.
World fusion took on classical dimensions when Yo-Yo Ma formed his acclaimed Silk Road Ensemble. He brought together musicians and composers from around the world to create a new dialogue in a hybrid cultural sound.
Peter Baumann was a member of Tangerine Dream during their classic era and founded Private Music. Now, after 20 years in his think tank, the Baumann Foundation, he returns with his first new album in 33 years, Machines of Desire. He talks about electronics and philosophy on Echoes.