The Big Ears Festival 2023 took place this past weekend 3/30-4/2 and it lived up to its reputation with nearly 200 performances that stretched music concepts.
Reviews & Commentary
Big Ears Festival 2023 Review
Tag: Ambient
Coming Up
Thursday, Apr 20, 2023 – Kaki King in Concert
Kaki King is celebrating the 20th anniversary of her debut album, Everybody Loves You. She performs that music that made the finger-style guitar world’s collective jaw drop, on Echoes.
Playlists
Thursday, Apr 6, 2023 – Echoes Program 2314D
New music by Lana Del Rey. The artful pop chanteuse gets intimate on her album, Did You Know There Was a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd? We’ll also hear from Olafur Arnalds.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Apr 19, 2023 – New Music from WMD
It’s alt-rock instrumentals from WMD off the album Deliquesce. We don’t know if that stands for Weapons of Mass Destruction, but we guarantee that you won’t be destroyed.
Playlists
Wednesday, Apr 5, 2023 – Echoes Program 2314C
Get ready to be sliced and diced when we hear new music by Wax Tailor, the French electronic artist who likes to cut-up archival voice samples. He has a new album, Fishing for Accidents.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 March: Steve Roach at the Top
Steve Roach’s Rest of Life tops the Echoes Top 25 for March, followed by Bill Nelson, Wax Tailor, Surface 10, Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen, Hammock and 19 more great artists.
Playlists
Tuesday, Apr 4, 2023 – Echoes Program 2314B
The ambient guitar duo Hammock talk about their latest post-pandemic album, Love in the Void. They talk about the emotions that fueled one of their most energized albums in years.
Playlists
Monday, Apr 3, 2023 – Echoes Program 2314A
Echoes’ April CD of the Month is from Heather Woods Broderick with the album, Labyrinth. It’s a seductive melodic song cycle of impressionistic and deep reflections on the human experience.
Coming Up
Weekend, Apr 15-16, 2023 – Vic Hennegan Plays Live
Vic Hennegan heads into space. The ambient electronic composer comes to Echoes to perform a live electronic set with no computers, just synthesizers, to create a drifting soundscape.
Playlists
Weekend, Apr 1-2, 2023 – Programs 2313A & 2313B
A yogi plays his guitar on Echoes when we hear Michael Hewett. He comes in, plugs his acoustic guitar into an array of effects boxes and loopers and performs music from his Blue Avian EP.