Daniel Voth is a two-handed tapping finger-style wizard but with a composer’s sense of arrangement and melody. His album, Trancendance is the Echoes March CD of the Month.
Fusion giant Larry Coryell died on February 19, after playing his final gig at Iridium i New York City. John Diliberto remembers this important and influential musician.
Christie Leneé is a prodigious acoustic player who has absorbed the techniques of artists like Michael Hedges and Leo Kottke. She deploys it live on Echoes.
Coming up on Echoes, we’ll hear the music behind a provocative video by Norwegian singer, Jenny Hval. It’s a song called “The Great Undressing” from her album, Blood Bitch.
Peppino D’Agostino is an acclaimed musician who came up during that second wave of acoustic guitarists in the 1980s with Will Ackerman, Michael Hedges, Alex De Grassi and Preston Reed. He plays live on Echoes.
Christmas becomes serene with Sonic Seasonings. The British duo Smoke Fairies play their original Christmas songs form their album Wild Winter and harp Guitarist Muriel Anderson plucks through seaosnal favorites and originals.
On an Echoes Christmas Soundscape get the sugar plums dancing with music from Smoke Fairies “Wild Winter,” SHEL’s “Winter Fairyland” and Tom Caufield’s “I Heard It Was Christmas Day.”