Category: Program Highlights

Johan Agebjorn in Echoes Podcast

Johan Agebjorn - Notes

Johan Agebjorn recently released the album Notes, an ambitious song cycle exploring chamber and electronic moods with singers. Agebjorn has been a fixture on Sweden’s ambient and pop music scene for years. In the pop world he’s the mastermind behind Sally Shapiro, the electro-pop project with a singer whose identity remains cloaked, although it may be revealed in our interview. In ambient music he’s released several beautiful, often pastoral albums.

Echoes Top 25 for March 2015

Echoes Top 25 for March finds Lanterna’s CD of the Month, “Backyards” on top. It’s followed by April’s CD pick, Tangerine Dream’s “Supernormal” and February’s selection, Fernwood’s “Arcadia.”

Fernwood in Echoes Podcast

Gayle Ellett and Todd Montgomery are modern musicians purveying a backwoods Americana global music fusion as Fernwood. Arcadia is their second album of mostly acoustic ruminations, orchestrated with everything from sitars and guitars to bouzoukis and dilruba in a global music of the imagination.