After a one year hiatus, the Best of Echoes Listener Poll returns as the Echoes audience votes for their favorite Echoes CDs of this past year. We don’t know what it will be yet.
Smoke Fairies have released the best seasonal album of 2015 with Wild Winter. It’s a different kind of winter CD, and it’s beautiful. Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies come into Echoes to play music from Wild Winter and some earlier songs live.
On a Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear from two albums with cosmic themes, but each comes from a very different perspective. We’ll hear from Zero One’s trippy “Signals” and Daniel Hart’s score to “Comet”.
Two dream pop singers approach moody songs from different directions. Warpaint bassist Jennylee goes toward dark and gothic minimalism while Maia Vidal brings a rhythmic vitality to her fragile songs.
2015 began with the unexpected death of Edgar Froese, the founding member of the German electronic band, Tangerine Dream. 2015 also saw the anniversary of two influential Tangerine Dream albums, Rubycon and Ricochet.
Bella Gaia, or Beautiful Earth is a massive multi-media project put together by violinist and electronic composer Kenji Williams. Williams and singer/pianist Kristin Hoffmann come in to Echoes to play music from Bella Gaia live.