Pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi is a pioneer of Ambient Chamber Music who works on the more wistful side of the genre. His album, The Summer Portraits is Echoes April CD of the Month.
Music by The Silk Road Ensemble with Rhianon Giddens. They’ve taken a more Americana turn since Giddens took the reins from founder Yo-Yo Ma, but they still have that global aesthetic.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Robot Koch. This musician who has been on the edges of electronica and EDM for years goes full new age on an album of drifting moods called Allow.
We take you back to a 2016 live Echoes performance by Ben Neill. He plays the mutantrumpet with 3 bells, 2 sets of valves, a mini trombone slide and a lot of electronic controllers.
New music by guitarist Carl Weingarten. He’s been recording various angles of progressive music for decades, specializing in slide guitar. He has a new album of pastoral moods.
We throw out our GPS and get out MAPS. That’s the recording persona of James Chapman. His last two albums have been pure joyous, electronic bliss. We talk counter melodies and more.
If you can’t wait for summer, Echoes has a record for you: Ludovico Einaudi’s The Summer Portraits. The Italian composer and pianist sculpts delicate chamber music breezes.
It’s a meeting of electronic generations with Ian Boddy and Harald Grosskopf. They’ve created an album called Doppelganger that looks back at the golden age of Krautrock.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Haushka. The German pianist likes to insert strange objects on the strings of his piano, in the tradition of John Cage. His latest album is Philanthropy.