Revisit The Best of Echoes 2020. In a year that we’d like to forget there is one thing to remember, all the great music that populated the Echoes soundscape since 1/1/2020.
Coming Up
Friday, Jan 1, 2021 – The Best of Echoes 2020 Revisited
Tag: Ambient Chamber Music
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Roedelius, Thievery Corp, & Philip Glass
Coming Up
Wednesday, Dec 30, 2020 – Andreas Vollenweider
Andreas Vollenweider has been out of sight for 11 years, but now the acclaimed Swiss harpist has returned with a new album, Quiet Places. We go there and talk to him on Echoes.
Playlists
Wednesday, Dec 16, 2020 – Echoes Program 2050C
It’s a minimalist dervish when we hear the 5th Icon of Echoes, Philip Glass. We’ll hear a profile of this highly influential composer who inspired Tangerine Dream, David Bowie, Brian Eno & more.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Dead Can Dance Icons & Harold Budd R.I.P.
Coming Up
Thursday, Dec 24, 2020 – An Echoes Christmas I
Get the sugar plums dancing with an Echoes Night Before Christmas. It’s not your shopping Mall Christmas carols with David Arkenstone’s Native Christmas, and Smoke Fairies Wild Winter.
Reviews & Commentary
5 Essential Harold Budd CDs.
Harold Budd passed away on December 7th at 84. Here are Five Essential Harold Budd albums from this avatar of ambient chamber music who defined a sound that was unrepentantly beautiful.
Playlists
Tuesday, Dec 8, 2020 – Echoes Program 2049B
Ambient chamber composer Kevin Keller goes spiritual when heart surgery stops his heart from beating. He contemplates that experience on his album, The Front Porch of Heaven.
Best Of
Best of Echoes 2020-The Top 30 Albums of the Year
The Best of Echoes 2020. We pick out our 30 Favorite albums of the year covering the range of the Echoes Soundscape. This is a Best of list like no other. 2020 Sucked! This list doesn’t.
Playlists
Friday, Dec 4, 2020 – Echoes Program 2048E
Pianist Peter Kater goes Hawaiian. He taps traditional Hawaiian music and musicians and creates a lush landscape around them. We’ll also hear new music by the electronic artist Kayobe.