Daniel Lanois is the famed producer of U2, collaborator with Brian Eno, and a musician who is usually found behind a guitar or a pedal steel guitar. But now he has an album of ambient piano works.
We’ll hear a new collaboration between string player and electronic artist Rena Jones with electronic artist Kilo Watts and we’ll hear Jean-Michel Jarre remixed by Brian Eno.
Echoes doesn’t have 12 days of Christmas, but we do have 12 CD of the Month Picks. We’ll go through them, first forward and then backwards. 2022 was a great year for music on Echoes.
American multi-instrumentalist David Vito Gregoli and Indian producer & keyboard player Ricky Kej discuss Wild Monsoon, a fusion of electronics and Indian music.
It was a tough year for Icons of Echoes as Klaus Schulze and Vangelis both left earth’s orbit and they were followed by Julee Cruise, Low Roar and too many more. Echoes remembers.
Singer Christine Byrd has emerged out of the Christian music scene, and backing vocals for the band Hammock, to forge a music of liberation, loss and atonement, as Lumenette.
It’s the Best of Echoes 2022. It’s been a torrential year of new music. John Diliberto has been sifting through it all to pick out the 30 best albums of the last 12 months.
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.
Monsoon was an Asian fusion band featuring singer Sheila Chandra. 40 Years ago they had a massive hit with the song “Ever So Lonely” and now, their debut album Third Eye is being reissued.
New music on Echoes by Weyes Blood from her album And in the Darkness Hearts Aglow, and a release by Moby from his new label, teaming up with Jamaican-Asian singer Akemi Fox.