Fronted by the husband and wife duo of Canadian guitarist Simon Angell and Swedish singer Erika Angell, Thus Owls has a powerful, sometimes possessed voice.
Lana Del Rey’s new album Ultraviolence is intensely melodic and luxuriously melancholy. It’s an album that somehow fits on Echoes more than any other place.
Echoes goes undercover for an entire show of cover songs. There have been a lot of unusual ones out lately, including Lo-Fang’s take on a song from Grease and The Capsules’ down-tempo trawl through Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive.”
Guitarist Richard Leo Johnson pushed the limits of Michael Hedges-inspired extended technique before going completely out-there with an Americana music of the imagination. His new album, Celeste, posits the idea of an alien abduction.
We revisit an interview from 25 years ago with Jon Hassell. The legendary creator of Fourth World Music, collaborator with Brian Eno and Talking Heads talks about his 1989 album, City: Works of Fiction, recently reissued in a deluxe box set.
Lana Del Rey’s new album Ultraviolence is intensely melodic and luxuriously melancholy. It’s an album that somehow fits on Echoes more than any other place.
Kaya Project is the Ethno-Techo outlet for Seb Taylor. He’s just released a new album called Firedance that ups the rhythmic ante in a frenzy of darbuka grooves and seductive melodies.