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Echoes interviews Pepper Proud and Masaru Higasa of New Age band, Yaima. We discuss Timothy Leary, transformational festivals, new album OvO, and sensory deprivation tanks.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, it’s new music from Behind the Shadow Drops. That’s a solo project from Takaakira Goto. He’s the founding member of the Japanese guitar band Mono.
It’s new music by Electric Youth who released an ambient film score for a movie that never came out called Breathing. We’ll also hear the ambient guitar band, Hammock from Mysterium.
The video for Ulrich Schnauss’ “Love Grows Out of Thin Air” is a heartbreaking story of loss and sadness.
ECHOES TOP 25 for July 2017 Hear a Spotify Playlist of Top 25 Below London Grammar – Truth is a Beautiful Thing (Ministry of Sound Recordings) Wilsen – I Go Missing in my Sleep (Secret City Records) Yaima – OvO (Yaima) Maggie Koerner – Dig Down Deep (EP) (R’COUP’D) Emel Mathlouthi – Ensen (PTKF) Nym – Lilac Chaser (Nym) …
Violinist Christopher Tignor comes in with his electronic rig, a bass drum and chines and orchestrates a one-man ambient chamber music performance live on Echoes.
Echoes American Landscapes, a soundscape for July 4th with a live performance by acclaimed oboist Jill Haley. She plays in the band One Alternative, and is one of Windham Hill founder Will Ackerman’s stable of first call musicians. Her latest album is National Park Soundscapes, which is just perfect for July 4th.
We survey the first six months of the year for our favorite albums. Among them are Wilsen’s I Go Missing in My Sleep, Jean-Michel Jarre’s Oxygene 3, and Mike Oldfield’s Return to Ommadawn.
Wilsen’s I go Missing in My Sleep leads Echoes June Top 25 followed by the electronic road trip of Johan Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren and the melodic finger stylings of Michael Hewett.
