Paul McCartney has reinvented his third solo album with new versions of the songs, featuring a different guest artist on almost every track. We’ll hear Phoebe Bridgers from McCartney III Imagined.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, drift on the currents of Erik Wøllo’s North Star, his latest missive of guitar moods from Norway. We’ll also hear from Chris Liebing off his album Another Day.
A defining figure in neo-classical and ambient chamber music is Iceland’s Olafur Arnalds. Over the last 15 years he’s sculpted a sound merging classical impressionism and ambient electronics.
New music from Lanterna, one of the pioneers of Ambient Americana. He’s returned with a new album of delay-guitar melodies, ambient moods, and twang, called Hidden Drives.
Echoes Top 25 for May 2021. London Grammar’s Californian Soil, the May CD of the Month, is at the top, followed by Mythos, Gary Numan, Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk, and 21 other great CDs.
The Mastelottos is the couple of King Crimson drummer Pat Mastelotto and his wife, singer Deborah Mastelotto. They have an album called A Romantic’s Guide to King Crimson.
Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas converge on Eight Fragments of an Illusion, exploring inner universes and outer space with shoegaze guitar and synthesizer layers. It’s Echoes June CD of the Month.
Emancipator, Rena Jones, & Flowerpulse weave their electronic roots into the ambient excursion of Xylem, their debut album. John Diliberto goes to the garden with 3 electronic explorers.
We’ll hear the band AO Music’s African-inspired sound featuring singer Miriam Stockley, and we’ll hear a Bulgarian group called Trigaida that mixes traditional Bulgarian singing and EDM.