Darin Mahoney started out as a cowboy roping cattle and riding broncos in rodeos. A near death experience with cancer and an encounter with guitarist Will Ackerman’s music changed his life. Now he creates dreamy guitar music as a solo artist and in a duo with flutist Sherry Finzer.
Rebekka Karijord is yet another singer from Sweden, but she eschews the ethereal girl sound for a throatier, more soulful approach. She plays her music live on Echoes.
Singer-songwriter Kristin Hoffmann has been recording since she was 17 with a music she called Ethereal Renaissance Pop.
Heather Woods Broderick has performed with Sharon van Etten and Efterklang, but on her own, she creates richly-textured worlds for her introspective songs. With her CD Glider, Heather Wood Broderick has created one of the most enveloping and sustained song-cycles of 2015.
To celebrate Independence Day, Echoes takes a trek across American Landscapes with music evoking the purple mountain majesties and fruited plains.
It’s the sound of Twanquility, as we hear music that sounds like it rose off the floor of the plains and ascended into the skies. It’s a soundscape of Ambient Americana on Echoes.
We’ll hear a track from Silencio’s new album She’s Bad: More Music Inspired by David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti., as well as the reissue of Manual’s signature album, Azure Vista.
There isn’t anyone named Bing or Ruth in the band called Bing & Ruth, but their name is as mysterious as their sound.
We pick the 25 best albums from the first half of the year.
To celebrate Independence Day, Echoes takes a trek across American Landscapes with music evoking the purple mountain majesties and fruited plains.