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.
Echoes Top 25 for November 2020. Digitonal, our CD of the Month, is at the top, followed by Ian Boddy, Steve Roach, Ane Brun (twice!) Tom Caufield and 19 other great CDs.
Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds talks about his new album, Some Kind of Peace. He pares-down to a simpler sound for music of introspection. Join us with Ólafur Arnalds on Echoes.
The Best of Echoes 2020. In a bad year there was great music. Hear 20 of the Top 30 albums for 2020 and then hear an interview with Kevin Keller who is on that list.
German electronic music legend Hans-Joachim Roedelius was a founder of Cluster and Harmonia. Lately, he’s gone acoustic and has even recorded for the Deutsche Grammophon classical label.
Gracie and Rachel’s latest album is Hello Weakness, You Make Me Strong. They talk music, anger, and pandemic. Then we remember composer Harold Budd who passed on 12/7 with an hour special.
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.
The Best of Echoes 2020. Echoes has gone through the hundreds of recordings that we’ve played and picked out the Top 30 albums for 2020, a horrible year in life, but a great year in music.
German electronic music legend Hans-Joachim Roedelius was a founder of Cluster and Harmonia. Lately, he’s gone acoustic and has even recorded for the Deutsche Grammophon classical label.
Norway’s Ane Brun’s albums After The Great Storm and How Beauty Holds the Hand of Sorrow are Echoes CD of the Month. We interview Iceland’s Ólafur Arnalds. Hear them this weekend on Echoes.