Composer Alex Somers has worked with Sigur Ros, he has duo with that band’s Jonsi, and he’s a film composer with scores for Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana and Honey Boy.
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.
Composer Alex Somers has worked with Sigur Ros, and in a duo with Jonsi. He’s composed scored for Miss Americana and Honey Boy. We talk to him. We’ve also got a Celtic Soundscape.
FLOW returns for a Living Room Concert. FLOW is pianist Fiona Joy, guitarist Lawrence Blatt, trumpeter Jeff Oster and guitarist and Windham Hill Records founder Will Ackerman.
Voxfire takes Medieval chants and turns them into free-floating expanses with beautiful vocals. They infuse their chants with ambient moods and even blues harmonica.
It’s Celtic airs and graces on a Celtic Soundscape for St. Patrick’s Day. John Diliberto dials up the ethereal side of Celtic sounds including new music by Clannad and Seamus Egan
Composer Alex Somers has worked with Sigur Ros, and in a duo with that band’s Jonsi, and he’s a film composer with scores for Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana and Honey Boy.
The Echoes Top 25 for February 2020 features Hans Christian’s After the Fall, Jake Shimabukuro, Tigerforest, Agnes Obel, and 21 other CDs. See if your favorites made the list.
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.
Agnes Obel’s Myopia is the Echoes March CD of the Month. It’s an album that explores the mind from insomnia to memories, all in Obel’s ethereal voice and 21st century ambient chamber moods.