Experimental Genre-Spanning Spacepop Experimental could apply to a lot of the music you hear on Echoes, but that’s also how an English band called The Invisible describes their music.
Miranda Lee Richards’s parents were 70s underground comic writers. Metallica’s Kirk Hammett gave her guitar lessons and she was discovered by Anton Newcombe of The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
Kiasmos is the electronic project of ambient chamber music composer Ólafur Arnalds and fellow Icelander, Janus Rasmussen. They talk about how they moved from minimalist techno to something more lush and orchestral.
Aukai is a Hawaiian word that means traveler and that’s just what multi-instrumentalist Markus Sieber does on this expansive yet intimate set of world music chamber pieces.
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.
Coming up on Echoes we’ll hear a couple of artists exploring an ambient pop sound. Ry X, is a musician from Canada an album called Under Water and we’ve got Baby Alpaca, a whimsical name for a group that has Depeche Mode in their DNA.
The horns of Gabriel and Miles are transfigured when Ben Neill plays live on Echoes. Ben Neill merges ambient, electronic, dub-step and minimalism. His mutantrumpet that has 3 bells, a trombone slide, 2 sets of valves and all kinds of electronics.
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.
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.