David Holmes is a longtime giant of electronic music and a prolific film composer. He teams up with singer Raven Violet to create a politically charged album, Blind on a Galloping Horse.
Guitarist Tom Caufield brings us an album without any guitar. Using synthesizers and a violinist, he channels the sound of progressive groups like Popol Vuh and Vangelis.
There are many Christmas and seasonal albums out there, but David Arkenstone’s Winterlüde most perfectly captures the wonder of the season. It’s Echoes CD of the Month for December.
Deborah Martin & Jill Haley discuss their latest project, Into The Quiet; Hans Christian and Mickey Houlihan talk about Christian’s posthumous collaboration with David Darling.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Aukai (Markus Sieber) who specializes in the South American instrument called the charango. He carves out delicate, brush stroked music on his album, Apricity.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, a journey of sequencer-driven sounds by Colin Rayment from his album, Equilibrium. We’ll also hear Sherry Finzer and VeeRonna Ragone from their album, Mystic Breezes.
Deep southern electronica from Niecy Blues. This South Carolina artist creates surreal soundscapes of R&B, hip hop, downtempo and ambient music for her album, Exit Simulation.
We lost the great cellist & ambient chamber music pioneer David Darling last year. But fellow cellist Hans Christian resurrected him in an album of virtual duets called Ocean Dreaming Ocean.