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.
Peter Kater is known for sweetly romantic and deeply introspective music. But there’s another side to this musician, with a dark childhood and beginning as a hitch-hiking itinerant musician.
On an Echoes Memorial Day Soundscape, it’s music to contemplate the loss and the carnage of wars across time including music from Loreena McKennitt, The Zombies and Hans Zimmer.
It’s the return of a New Age pioneer when we talk with Kevin Braheny Fortune. Then David Helpling takes us into the runic and oceanic influences of his January CD of the Month, Rune.
AvaWaves is an ambient chamber music duo who have released their debut album, Waves. Then we interview Steve Roach, the electronic artist who has been part of Echoes for all of its 30 years.
It’s the return of a New Age pioneer when we talk with Kevin Braheny Fortune. He has three releases of ambient music. He talks about his name change, years of silence and his new music.
We surf AvaWaves, the ambient chamber music duo who have released their debut album, Waves. It’s a meeting of classical music, cinematic expanses and ambient atmospheres for piano and violin.
AIR Founding member Nicolas Godin has a new solo album out that began as an architectural art project. Naneum recorded a local choir but then sliced it up into his own arrangements.
We’ll hear a great version of Phil Collins’ In the Air Tonight by Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky. We’ll also hear from Tigerforest’s album of orchestrated electronics called Discovery.
The Echoes Top 25 for April 2020 features Michael Whalen’s Sacred Spaces, AVAWaves, Tigerforest Emancipator, Paul Speer, Purity Ring, and 19 other CDs. See if your favorites made the list.