A giant of acoustic guitar, the 18th Icon of Echoes is the late Michael Hedges. He revolutionized the acoustic guitar with his virtuoso two-handed approach and idiosyncratic compositions.
We get Desensitized. That’s the name chosen for the collaboration between melodic electronic artist Deborah Martin and experimental electronic artist Dean De Benedictus.
We hear from London Grammar, the seductive and serene dream pop band. The group talks about the explorations of love and politics that suffuse their new recording, Californian Soil.
The keyboardist for the Danish Al-rock band, Kashmir, takes the neo-classical, solo piano route on a trilogy of recordings. We go inside the creaky piano sound of Henrik Lindstrand.
Mark Dwane has an album called Future Tense that features his guitar actually sounding like a guitar sometimes. We’ll also hear from the collection Imaginational Anthems Volume 10, Overseas Edition.
We’ll hear the band AO Music’s African-inspired sound featuring singer Miriam Stockley, and we’ll hear a Bulgarian group called Trigaida, that mixes traditional Bulgarian singing and EDM.
We flip the switch on Jean-Michel Jarre, the 17th Icon of Echoes. He brought electronic music to global popularity with his 1977 album, Oxygene, bringing the space music sound to new audiences.
Digitonal’s Set the Weather Fair was one of Echoes’ Top five Albums of 2020. Andy Dobson and Dom Graveson talk about their merging of classical moods and electronic ambiences and grooves.
The keyboardist for the Danish Al-rock band, Kashmir, takes the neo-classical, solo piano route on a trilogy of recordings. We go inside the creaky piano sound of Henrik Lindstrand.
Covid-19 survival this weekend on Echoes with Carl Weingarten’s pastoral pandemic tone poems on Ember Days, the CD of the Month and Decouplr whose debut album was born in pandemic.