With Emerald Waters, Hollan Holmes has forged a definitive recording that wraps you in an entrancing web of sound, and sends you spinning into space. It’s Echoes February CD of the Month.
She sang back-up for Madonna for a decade, but for the last 20 years, Donna De Lory has been pursuing her own music. She has a recent album of layered vocals called Gone Beyond.
Guitar icon Phil Keaggy comes in with his acoustic guitar and looping station to generate multiple lines of his evocative melodies live. We hear triple when Phil Keaggy plays live.
On a Slow Flow Echoes we go ambient country with guitarist Carl Weingarten who has released Stop Me Try, and The Royal Arctic Institute who twang in ambience on From Catnap To Coma.
In honor of Black History Month, we turn the Echoes prism onto the African and black influences in ambient music. They come from many sources: jazz, R&B, Hip-hop and Africa itself.
It’s a Whole Lotta Love for Led Zeppelin when we talk with Bob Spitz, author of Led Zeppelin: The Biography. He takes us from poverty to Kashmir, drugs to death and heavy metal to heaven.
We talk to Marconi Union, a true 21st century band. The British electronic trio has a new album out that finds them tapping a more rhythmic, drum driven sound, even though there are no drums.
The Echoes February CD of the Month takes us into deep space with Emerald Waters by Hollan Holmes. He creates landscape paintings of Texas by day and electronic spacescapes by night.
Frostlake is the recording persona of Jan Todd who sings and plays a multitude of instruments including a few you may have never heard of. She has a new album called The Weight of Clouds.