We travel the backroads of Ambient America. We’ll hear reveries on the the 4th of July and traverse the byways and highways of Ambient Americana from Brian Eno, Lanterna and more.
Coming Up
Friday, July 2, 2021 – Echoes Ambient America
Tag: Ambient Americana
Playlists
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 – Echoes Program 2124B
New music from Lanterna, one of the pioneers of Ambient Americana. He’s returned with a new album of delay-guitar melodies, ambient moods, and twang, called Hidden Drives.
Coming Up
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 – New Music from Lanterna
New music from Lanterna, one of the pioneers of Ambient Americana. He’s returned with a new album of delay-guitar melodies, ambient moods, and twang, called Hidden Drives.
CD of the Month
Echoes June 2020 CDoM: John Gregorius’s Full of Life
John Gregorius’ Full of Life is Echoes June 2020 CD of the Month. It’s an album of spacious Ambient Americana as he layers electric and acoustic guitars in a desert southwest tone poem.
Playlists
Weekend, October 31 & November 1, 2015-Echoes Program 1543A
We launch our 21st CD of live performances, Echoes21. Echoes21 is our 21st edition of live performances on Echoes.
Playlists
Monday, October 26th, 2015-Echoes Program 1543A
We launch our 21st CD of live performances, Echoes21. Echoes21 is our 21st edition of live performances on Echoes.
Playlists
Tuesday, August 11th, 2015-Echoes Program 1532B
Lanterna is the performance vehicle of guitarist Henry Frayne. He used to play in the shoegaze bands Area and The Moon Seven Times, but as Lanterna he makes an instrumental music that seems to rise off the heat of the American plains and travel down a surf guitar highway.
Echoes Online, Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes: The Tao of Steve
In the movie The Tao of Steve, a character develops a philosophy of “being Steve.” We noticed that there’s a whole lot of Echoes music made by Steves. Here’s a five-hour uninterrupted instrumental soundscape exploring music made by Steves, Stevens, Stephens, Stephans, Stephanies, even a Stevin.
Echoes Online
Ambient Americana Landscapes
It’s a different sound of America for Independence Day weekend. It’s a sound steeped in the landscapes of the US from the Grand Canyon to the forests of Maine, all steeped in the sound of Ambient Americana, that unique sound merging country twang and ambient atmospheres. This soundscape for July 4th is one of twangquility, only at Echoes On-Line.
Interview Podcast
Lanterna in Echoes Podcast
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Henry Frayne has put out a string of wonderful albums bder the name Lanterna. It’s been nine years since he released an album, but he’s finally returned with Backyards. Frayne talks about his time away and the music it helped produce, a sound that was born on acoustic guitar.