We return to a 2010 concert by Jon Hopkins. He’s worked with Brian Eno and Coldplay, and had just released his CD Insides. He played two pieces from Insides, and an unreleased improvisation.
We hear the multi-keyboard orchestrations of music of Naneum, live. Naneum is Jon Solo, and he creates ambient chamber music featuring piano, synthesizers, Fender Rhodes and Melotron.
YPPAH is an electronic band that channels psychedelic, hip-hop and minimalism. Just before Corona they played live on Echoes. That concert is streaming for free now.
It’s the 36 strings of The California Guitar Trio and the Montréal Guitare Trio. These two virtuoso groups get together to play music from their 2019 CD of the Month, In a Landscape, live.
Hawaiian ukulele lion Jake Shimabukuro and his trio with guitarist Dave Preston to lay down the dreamy ambient textured music of his new album, including a cover of a Pink Floyd classic.
Hawaii’s Taimane brings uncanny virtuosity and melody to the ukulele. If you think the ukulele is a novelty instrument for luaus, then you need to hear Taimane live on Echoes.
Oboist Jill Haley is joined by guitarist David Cullen, and pianist Sue McDevitt, to perform music from her latest recording of national park soundscapes, The Winds of Badlands.
On Echoes Sonic Seasonings, it’s FLOW and Friends. They get together in new configurations to reinvent the sound of Christmas, creating an intimately chilled and musically adventurous mood.
Ioanna Gika, formerly of IO Echo, recently released her solo debut, Thalassa. She’s got a deep and powerful sound and you can hear it when she plays live.
It’s deep ambient Americana expanses when we hear SUSS. Their sound fits in with Brian Eno’s Apollo, Lanterna and Harold Budd. They come in and perform their psychedelic country songs, live.