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Tigerforest avoids lapsing into bombast and saccharine sentimentality. Instead, on The Tides of Day and Night he creates an expansive and immersive journey.
She was number one on Billboard in June and now she’s Number One at Echoes. Lana Del Rey’s “Ultraviolence” leads our Top 25 for August.The singer has turned in a fragile and alluring album that taps into the darker side of Echoes sonically and thematically. It was the CD of the Month in August and…
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Muriel Anderson’s fingerstyle lullabies. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-MurielAnderson.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSMuriel Anderson was a fingerstyle guitar champion and a mentee of Chet Atkins and Les Paul. She creates a pastoral music drawing from folk, jazz and classical music, playing acoustic six-string and harp guitar. She talks about learning from Christopher Parkening and Chet Atkins…
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John Luttrell’s Progressive Rock Dreamhttps://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-JohnLuttrell.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSJohn Luttrell is a journeyman musician who has released several new agey albums over the last decade or so. But this year he released an ambitious Progressive Rock influenced album called The Dream Exchange. It has echoes of many of his influences like Tangerine…
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Amatorski is a Belgian band that creates an atmospheric, dusky brand of dream pop.
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We revisit an interview from 25 years ago with Jon Hassell. The legendary creator of Fourth World Music, collaborator with Brian Eno and Talking Heads talks about his 1989 album, City: Works of Fiction, recently reissued in a deluxe box set.
There’s some great CDs in the Echoes Top 25 for July. Leading the way is Yoed Nir’s CD of the Month, The Next Dream. He’s one of two cello albums to make the list. The other is first timer Maya Beiser with her album of cello covers, Uncovered.
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Interview: Kaya Project. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-KayaProject2014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSKaya Project is the Ethno-Techo outlet for Seb Taylor who also records as Hibernation, Shakta and Angel Tears. He’s just released a new album called Firedance that ups the rhythmic ante in a frenzy of darbuka grooves and seductive melodies. Seb Taylor and singer Irina…
Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence is not your usual Echoes CD of the Month. It’s not ethereal and dreamy. It won’t soothe you. But along with Beck’s transcendent (and soothing) Morning Phase, it’s one of the most important albums of the year.
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Interview: Ceiri Torjussen. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-CeiriTorjussen.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSCeiri Torjussen is a Welsh-born classically trained composer with jazz inclinations who has recorded an electronic ambient score for the movie Test, a story about professional dancers coping with the outbreak of AIDS in 1985 San Francisco. Torjussen’s score uses classic 70s and 80s synthesizer…