The presents are unwrapped, stomachs are stuffed, and everyone is drowsy. It’s time to chill with a Christmas Soundscape. It’s the sounds of the season sculpted in snow shrouded serenity.
Get the sugar plums dancing with an Echoes Night Before Christmas. It’s not your shopping Mall Christmas carols with David Arkenstone’s Native Christmas, and Smoke Fairies Wild Winter.
It’s a new generation of German electronic artists when we talk to Thomas Lemmer and Sebastian Pabst. They’ve been churning out downtempo dreams and electro-lounge moods at a prolific pace.
Echoes doesn’t have 12 days of Christmas, but we do have twelve months of Echoes CD of the Month Picks. We’ll go through them, first forward from January and then backwards.
Bundle up for a Winter Solstice Soundscape of snow shrouded trees, silent saguaro cactus and white out conditions. We create a winter fantasy taking you into the chilled side of the season.
Echoes remembers. 2020 has been a tough year and along the way, we lost many artists from the world of Echoes. We lament their loss and celebrate their music on Echoes In Memoriam.
We’ll hear the latest recording by French guitarist Pierre Bensusan. He came up during the days of Windham Hill guitarists like Michael Hedges, who named a song after him. His latest album is Azwan.
We hear from rock refugee Greg Lisher. He’s the guitarist in the bands Camper Van Beethoven and Monks of Doom, but his new album sounds more like Windham Hill meets Brian Eno.
It’s a minimalist dervish when we hear the 5th Icon of Echoes, Philip Glass. We’ll hear a profile of this highly influential composer who inspired Tangerine Dream, David Bowie, Brian Eno & more.
New music by Alex Maas, lead singer of the psychedelic band The Black Angels. He goes more pastoral on an album called Luca. We’ll also hear from Time Traveler, the new persona of Eleon.