We’ll hear something from the first chanteuse of trip-hop, Beth Gibbons. She was the voice of Portishead, but now she’s solo. We’ll also hear new music by Olivia Chaney, from her new album, Circus of Desire.
It’s Quiet Resonance on the next Echoes when we talk to Tony Pounders. As Quiet Resonance, he composes guitar orchestrations that range from ambient to pastoral to pure space.
The March CD of the Month is Sacred Places, by Hollan Holmes. We’ll hear that and a program of long tracks – four epic pieces all spanning some 20 minutes each. Take a long ride with Echoes.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we get amorphous with Forrest Fang, from his album called The Lost Seasons of Amorphia, which combines synthesizers with zither, gamelan, and gu-zheng.
New music from Jeff Oster, Vin Downes and Tom Eaton from their album, Seven Conversations. It’s an improvisation in ambient space. We’ll also hear from Deborah Martin and Erik Wollo.
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.
Lose yourself in some Long Tracks. We’ll hear four epic pieces all spanning some 20 minutes each. It may be a TikTok world, but Echoes brings us the epics, not just the tidbits.
The March CD of the Month is Sacred Places, by Hollan Holmes. Hollan sees the beauty of his home state of Texas, and turns it into melodic, sequencer reveries. We explore Sacred Places.
Hear New Age Ancient and Modern. Prompted by the January death of New Age pioneer Iasos, Echoes takes a spin through some of the earliest new age music as well as some of its more recent exponents.
New music by the German electronic artist Klangwelt. He is stretching the sound of sequencer-driven music on his new album, Here and Why. We’ll also hear from Joseph L Young.