In 1990 Enigma enchanted the world with their album, MCMXC A.D. (1990) mixing gothic chants and electronic moods. Now they return with their first album in eight years, The Fall of a Rebel Angel. Founder Michael Cretu talks about it on Echoes.
Peppino D’Agostino is an acclaimed musician who came up during that second wave of acoustic guitarists in the 1980s with Will Ackerman, Michael Hedges, Alex De Grassi and Preston Reed. He plays live on Echoes.
Alu is an enigmatic Los Angeles chanteuse who channels cabaret, electronics and Kurt Weill in her deeply personal and psychological songs that are rife with sometimes macabre metaphors.
Weyes Blood is the recording personal of singer Natalie Mering. Last year she released Front Row Seat to Earth, a gorgeous song-cycle tackling themes of love, life and existence.
The Dreampop group Delerium returns with a new album called Mythologie and Vinyl Williams brings us some psychedelia on their album, Brunei.
Singer Norah Jones goes back home on her new album called Day Breaks. We’ll hear a track from that and the electro-pop band called Fresh Snow.
Upon the release of Pink Floyd’s Early Years box set, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason takes us back to the seminal days of this iconic rock group, talking about light shows, happenings, and sonic experiments that exploded the concept of pop.
Still Corners is the UK electronic pop duo and they return to Echoes to play songs from their latest album, Dead Blue, live. Still Corners has taken a darker direction of the new album with even more ‘80’s synth-pop influences.
Weyes Blood is the recording personal of singer Natalie Mering. Last year she released Front Row Seat to Earth, a gorgeous song-cycle tackling themes of love, life and existence.
The new year begins with Echoes January CD of the Month, from veteran musician Ian Boddy. A child of German space music, Boddy is among those who have advanced that sound into the 21st century