We ring the Tubular Bells of the 11th Icon of Echoes, Mike Oldfield. Oldfield made one of the signpost works of the 1970s, but he’s done so much more. We explore his vast career on Echoes.
Echoes Top 25 for January 2021. Steve Roach’s album Tomorrow, Echoes January CD of the Month, is at the top, followed by Marya Stark, Loga Ramin Torkian, Dave Bessell & Parallel Worlds, and 20 other great CDs. See if your favorites made the list!
The keyboardist for the Danish Al-rock band, Kashmir, takes the neo-classical, solo piano route on a trilogy of recordings. John Diliberto goes inside the creaky piano sound of Henrik Lindstrand on Echoes.
Klaus Schulze-The 7th Icon of Echoes: An Appreciationby John Diliberto Updated 1/26/2021 Three years ago we celebrated the 70th birthday of Klaus Schulze and I wrote this at that time. Now, as we celebrate his anointment as the 7th of 30 Icons of Echoes, I’m taking another look back at this giant of electronic music.…
Music by Grandbrothers. On their album, All the Unknown, all the sounds originate from a single grand piano. We’ll also hear an enchanting & emotionally traumatized singer, Leandrul.
Time Traveler’s debut album, Sky Falter is a melodic meeting of downtempo and space music and it’s the February CD of the Month. Then an interview with Henrik Lindstrand.
Eivør has a powerful voice, and her latest album, Segl, shows influences of Bjork and Kate Bush. We’ll also hear some creaky piano from Olafur Arnalds.
On a Slow Flow Echoes we hear the space twang of SUSS, the ambient country band. We’ll hear a track from their latest album, Promise. We’ll also hear from Peter Chilvers and Jon Durant.
The 6th of 30 Icons, Vangelis. We’ll hear a profile of the legendary Greek electronic artist who won the first Oscar for an electronic film score for Chariots of Fire.