It’s the fourth Icon of Echoes, Dead Can Dance. This duo of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry have created some of the most transcendent, time-shifting music of the late 20th century.
Ambient chamber composer Kevin Keller goes spiritual when heart surgery stops his heart from beating. He contemplates that experience on his album, The Front Porch of Heaven.
The Best of Echoes 2020. Echoes has gone through the hundreds of recordings that we’ve played and picked out the Top 30 albums for 2020, a horrible year in life, but a great year in music.
Norway’s Ane Brun’s albums After The Great Storm and How Beauty Holds the Hand of Sorrow are Echoes CD of the Month. We interview Iceland’s Ólafur Arnalds. Hear them this weekend on Echoes.
Pianist Peter Kater goes Hawaiian. He taps traditional Hawaiian music and musicians and creates a lush landscape around them. We’ll also hear new music by the electronic artist Kayobe.
We’ll hear songs you know by people who didn’t originally record them including new cover versions of music by Roxy Music, Phil Collins, Cocteau Twins, The Beatles and Pink Floyd.
Electronic pioneers Tangerine Dream are #3 of 30 Icons of Echoes. In a special two-hour show, we’ll hear the Echoes Tangerine Dream Documentary as well as music from across the band’s career.
Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds talks about his new album, Some Kind of Peace. He pares-down to a simpler sound for music of introspection. Join us with Ólafur Arnalds on Echoes.
It’s a time of giving so the Echoes CD of the Month is actually 2 CDs. Ane Brun’s After The Great Storm and How Beauty Holds the Hand of Sorrow are perfect albums for this time of reflection.
Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Thievery Corporation: Two Generations of Electronic Legends this weekend on Echoes. Roedelius just turned 86 and Thievery Corporation are pioneers of downtempo.