Trevor Gordon Hall is a master finger-style guitarist who also plays a custom-designed instrument called the Kalimbatar, that combines the African kalimba with an acoustic guitar.
Get ready for the big chill on An Echoes Winter Solstice. Echoes’ John Diliberto creates a soundscape of snow-shrouded trees, silent saguaro cacti and white-out conditions, with no Christmas Carols.
Many musicians who lit up the Echoes sky left us this year. They may have left the planet but their music remains. John Diliberto remembers, with Echoes in Memoriam.
Echoes doesn’t have 12 days of Christmas but we do have Twelve CD of the Month Picks. We’ll go through them, first forward from January and then backwards from December.
Get your shopping list ready for The Best Albums of 2024 on Echoes. It has been a great year for new music and we’ll pick out our Top 30 albums for your delight. We count them down.
Trevor Gordon Hall is a master finger-style guitarist who also plays a custom-designed instrument called the Kalimbatar, that combines the African kalimba with an acoustic guitar.
We throw out our GPS and get out MAPS. That’s the recording persona of James Chapman. His last two albums have been pure joyous, electronic bliss. We talk counter melodies and more.
David Arkenstone talks about his album, Winterlude. It’s a seasonal tone poem without Christmas carols and without sleigh bells. Join John Diliberto for this exclusive interview.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music from EDM artist Sasha. He scored the music for the immersive exhibition, Da Vinci Genius. It flows from orchestral to ambient moods in a cinematic expanse.
We’ll hear two singers on the edge: KÁRYYN and Sheenah Ko. We’ll also look back at the influential album Who’s Afriad of the Art of Noise, by the band Art of Noise, released in 1984.