Pat Metheny in an intimate solo-guitar concert in his home studio. He’s the 13th Icon of Echoes and is featured on our 3/10 show and 3/11 Podcast. Hear this live performance from 2011.
Ralph Towner is best known as the guitarist of the band Oregon. He’s joined here by Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu. Together they craft a meticulously serene space of intuitive improvisation in this 2010 performance.
Way before Tycho, The Album Leaf was the first ambient rock groups, creating a deeply atmospheric and melodic electronic sound. We go back to a 2010 performance on Echoes.
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.