Rena Jones is a polymath. She plays violin, cello and synthesizers and immerses her music in the imagery of nature and philosophy. We talk about hidden meanings and her new album, Allegories.
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Tuesday, Jan 18, 2022 – Rena Jones Interview
Category: Program Highlights
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Monday, Jan 17, 2022 – Brigitte Bardini Interview
We talk with Australian singer-songwriter Brigitte Bardini. She’s influenced by shoegaze and dreampop artists. She’s just released her impressive debut, Stellar Lights.
CD of the Month
Echoes Jan 2022 CD of the Month: The Great Northern
The Great Northern takes classic analog synthesizers and sculpts a nightscape sky that ascends to the heavens on his debut album, Nocturnes.
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Weekend, Jan 15-16, 2022: Tori Amos & Marissa Nadler
Both Tori Amos and Marissa Nadler wrote songs marinated in the Pandemic. But they came up with different takes, mainly because Amos talked to trees and Nadler binged Unsolved Mysteries.
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Friday, Jan 14, 2022 – New music from Vangelis and E.Vax
Space is the place this year and Vangelis has the album for it. It’s called Juno to Jupiter and it is in the classic Vangelis mode. We’ll also hear music from E.Vax, which is Evan Peter Mast.
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Thursday, Jan 13, 2022 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Belgian ambient composer Dirk Serries. He teams up with saxophonist Trosta on an album of ambient improvisations called Island On The Moon.
Best Of
Best Ambient/Electronic Albums of 2021
This list is not like other lists. All “best of” lists are circumscribed by what music the listers were exposed to and personal tastes. In our case, it’s constrained by what we play on Echoes.
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Wednesday, Jan 12, 2022 – Randal Meek & Karavan Sarai
Music from another disciple of Windham Hill guitarist and founder, Will Ackerman. His name is Randal Meek, and Ackerman produced his album, Longings. We’ll also hear from Karavan Sarai.
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Tuesday, Jan 11, 2022- Marissa Nadler Interview
We all watched TV during pandemic isolation, but Marissa Nadler got an album out of it. It’s called The Path of the Clouds, and it’s inspired by the Unsolved Mysteries TV show.
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Monday, Jan 10, 2022: Tori Amos Interview
Singer-songwriter Tori Amos releases her 16th album, Ocean to Ocean. It’s an album born in grief, turmoil and hope during pandemic isolation. She talks about it on Echoes.