An Echoes Winter Solstice: a soundscape of snow shrouded trees and silent saguaro cacti. There are no Christmas Carols, but a sleigh ride into the celestial and chilled side of the season.
These are challenging times. We are constantly seeking new avenues of funding. At the same time, as I’m sure you know, money is tightening for everyone as inflation and interest rates rise.
Brian Eno, followed by Klangwelt, Delay Tactics, David Vito Gregoli & Ricky Kej, Ian Boddy, and 20 more great artists are featured in the Echoes Top 25 for November.
Music by Karmacoda, a band out of San Francisco. They’re tapping that old Trip-hop sound on their new album Lessons in Time. We’ll also hear from Aukai’s new album called Apricity.
Hear seasonal sounds off the beaten reindeer path with winter-themed selections from artists new and old, including Loreena McKennitt’s December CD of the Month, Under a Winter’s Moon.
We talk with Airport People: not weary airline travelers, but ambient chamber music artist Leon Todd Johnson. He has an album of creaky-piano-centered compositions called From Nine Mornings.
Weekend listeners hear The Best of Echoes 2022 Top 20 and we remember those who left the Echoes galaxy this year with Echoes in Memoriam.
Christmas comes early with the December CD of the Month, Loreena McKennitt’s Under a Winter’s Moon. Loreena merges reading from A Child’s Christmas in Wales with songs from the season.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro teams up with slide guitarist Sonny Landreth and we’ll hear some deep ambient guitar by Jonas Munk, who records as Manual.
New music by Olafur Arnalds – kind of. The Icelandic composer has gathered a bevy of other musicians to reinterpret the songs from his album, Some Kind of Peace, on piano.