We talk to Big Ears Music Festival founder Ashley Capps about 2020’s collection of over 100 artists including Terry Riley, Patti Smith, and especially, artists you’ve never heard before.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Feb 11, 2020 – Big Ears 2020 Preview
Tag: Ambient Chamber Music
Playlists
Friday, Jan 24, 2020 – Echoes Program 2003E
Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning releases The Munich Session. We also go back to 1981 for John Foxx’s The Garden, and Mark Dwane returns to 1988 to revisit his debut with Martian Apparitions.
Playlists
Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020 – Echoes Program 2002D
New music by Seamus Egan, the virtuoso multi-instrumentalist who has fronted the Celtic band Solas for decades and cellist Hans Christian goes darkly into ambient chamber music.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Jan 29, 2020 – New Music from Tigerforest
On the next Echoes, we’ll hear from Tigerforest off his new album of orchestrated electronics called Discovery. We’ll also hear Nicolas Godin, one half of the French duo Air.
Coming Up
Friday, January 24, 2020: New Electronic Music
Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning releases The Munich Session. We go back to 1981 for John Foxx’s The Garden and Mark Dwane returns to 1988 to revisit his debut with Martian Apparitions.
Playlists
Weekend, Jan 4-5, 2020: Programs 1953A & 1953B
It’s chilled ambiences from Iceland, the land of chill, when Hugar come in to play live. The duo unfolds the deep moods and frozen landscapes of their CD of the Month in an intimate and subtle performance.
Coming Up
Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020 – Slow Flow Echoes
New music by Seamus Egan, the virtuoso multi-instrumentalist who has fronted the Celtic band Solas for decades and cellist Hans Christian goes darkly into ambient chamber music.
Playlists
Monday, December 30, 2019: Echoes Program 1953A
It’s chilled ambiences from Iceland, the land of chill, when Hugar come in to play live. The duo unfolds the deep moods and frozen landscapes of their CD of the Month in an intimate and subtle performance.
Coming Up
Friday, Jan 10, 2020: Ioanna Gika & Bill Frisell
One of our favorite songs for 2019, Ioanna Gika’s “Out of Focus.” It’s from her brilliant album, Thalassa. We’ll hear that as well as guitarist Bill Frisell from his album, Harmony.
News
Echoes Christmas Week: Three Days of Seasonal Sounds
Echoes Christmas Week with seasonal shows to get you into and take you beyond the seasonal spirit with Christmas and Hanukkah sounds, An Echoes Night Before Christmas and An Echoes Christmas.