Deborah Martin is one of those shadowy figures in the electronic music world. She has a new album of mystic inspired works called Eye of the Wizard. She casts its spell in an Echoes interview.
John Heart Jackie is the duo of Jennie Wayne & Peter M. Murray. They make a trippy psychedelic folk with country harmonies, ambient textures and electronica loops. They play live on Echoes.
Forty years ago, no one ever suspected that Brian Eno’s ambient works would make such beautiful vehicles for acoustic ensembles. Yet, Music for Airports and Apollo-Atmospheres and Soundtracks have been magnificently covered by acoustic ensembles, Bang on a Can All-Stars and Icebreaker respectively.
Despite the fact that the Grammy Awards telecast is pretty much a pure pop and R&B experience, interesting music still slips through the cracks. We’ll hear them on Echoes at the Grammys.
New music from the English band, yndi halda whose name might be Nordic for “Enjoy Eternal Bliss” or it might be Icelandic for “Keep Relish” and Jennifer O’Connor whose name means business.
Forrest Fang started out as a violinist, but somewhere along the path he turned towards the weird, picking up instruments from around the world like the Chinese gu cheng, the Turkish lavta lute Vietnamese dan bau, Tibetan bells and more.
Forty years ago, no one ever suspected that Brian Eno’s ambient works would make such beautiful vehicles for acoustic ensembles. Yet, Music for Airports and Apollo-Atmospheres and Soundtracks have been magnificently covered by acoustic ensembles, Bang on a Can All-Stars and Icebreaker respectively.
The American Dollar are a post-rock band bringing an ambient sound to instrumental rock. You’ve heard their music on TV, films and commercials. Now take a deep dive into their album, Across the Oceans, Echoes CD of the Month for February.