We enter the World of Chant. From Abbess Hildegard von Bingen to contemporary musicians exploring a medieval sound, we’ll hear voices descending from the heavens and tuning the spirit.
It’s a Wicked Game on the next Echoes. Chris Isaak’s single, Wicked Game, was released 35 years ago in 1989. This sound has influenced pop music, ambient country and more.
Angels Descend when we hear heavenly music as the spirits of angels fly through the soundscape with music from Jane Siberry, Iasos, Liminal Drifter and more heavenly bodies.
Hear New Age Ancient and Modern. Echoes takes a spin through some of the earliest new age music as well as some of its more recent exponents, including Steven Halpern, Iasos, Yaima and White Sun.
Electronic artist Tim Blake was there at the beginning, playing synth for space rockers Gong and Hawkwind and launching his own project of synthesizers and lasers, Crystal Machine.
The August CD of the Month is the debut of Jaymie Rose Hennegan. Transition. We’ll hear that and our interview with Tori Amos on the 10th Anniversary of her album, Unrepentant Geradines.
Music from Arooj Aftab, the Pakistani-American singer who wraps you in dark sultriness. We’ll hear from her album, Night Reign. We’ll also hear a psychedelic band called Magic Fig.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we’ll hear a Japanese electronic artist who records as Yaffle. He’s got a beautiful ambient chamber music release recorded with several Icelandic musicians.
Loreena McKennitt revisits her classic album, The Mask and Mirror. She’s currently touring that album in Europe, and released a live album from 1994 on the original’s 30th anniversary.
Tori Amos’ Unrepentant Geraldines turns 10. We talked to Tori in 2014, and we revisit that interview to go behind the songs of Unrepentant Geraldines, which now has a new deluxe edition.