Echoes Top 25 for April finds Tangerine Dream’s “Supernormal” at the top, followed by downtempo albums from Sonomad and Chandeen.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for April 2015
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Interview Podcast
Johan Agebjorn in Echoes Podcast
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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.
Best Of
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.”
Living Room Concerts
Robert Rich Live On Echoes
Robert Rich, with a bonus track from his 2015 Echoes Living Room Concert.
Interview Podcast
Sonomad in Echoes Podcast
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Sonomad is a conceptual work about a “sound wanderer,” that involves concepts of life, infinity and beyond.
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Kaki King in Echoes Podcast
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Guitarist Kaki King talks about her daring new project The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body.
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Darin Mahoney in Echoes Podcast
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Darin Mahoney started out as a cowboy, but a near-death experience steered his life in a musical direction.
CD of the Month
April CD of the Month: Tangerine Dream’s Supernormal
Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese past in January, but a the last configuration of the band release a 3CD live set that embodies everything that made Tangerine Dream one of the most influential and inspiration electronic bands.
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Fernwood in Echoes Podcast
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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.
Program Highlights
Wordless Echoes: A Vernal Equinox Soundscape
Immerse yourself in a soundscape for Spring with an Echoes Vernal Equinoxe Stream. More than five hours of instrumental music create the perfect soundscape for you to feel the warmth of the sun and the sound of nature unfolding, even if it is snowing where you are.