Jaymie Rose Hennegan’s Transition tops the Echoes August 2024, followed by DiN’s 25th anniversary collection of electronic music, Trentmoller, Loreena McKennitt, and 22 other great CDs.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 August: Jaymie Rose Hennegan on Top
Tag: Ambient
Playlists
Wednesday, Sept 4, 2024 – Echoes Program 2436C
It’s Summer’s End on the next Echoes. Take a wistful glance back at the sound of summer as we get ready for the turn into fall. Join John Diliberto in a final summer soundscape.
Living Room Concerts
Cigarettes After Sex, performing Live On Echoes
Cigarettes After Sex is a noir-dreampop group fronted by the sultry voice of Greg Gonzalez. They play music from their debut album live. Smoke their live Echoes performance.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Sept 18, 2024 – Long Tracks 7
It’s Long Tracks 7 on the next Echoes. Time is stretched with the debut album from electronic artist Patrick Gleeson, Philip Glass’s Music in 12 Parts, Emerald Web and Bill Nelson.
Playlists
Tuesday, Sept 3, 2024 – Echoes Program 2436B
Zanias usually sings words, but on her latest album, Ecdysis, she takes inspiration from Dead Can Dance and hallucinogens and goes wordless. We talk to Zanias about her ecstatic singing.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Sept 17, 2024 – Music by Emma Anderson
Emma Anderson used to be one of the two singers in the 4AD band Lush, but now she’s out on her own with a more mature, but still ethereal sound. We’ll hear from her album, Pearlies.
Coming Up
Monday, Sept 16, 2024 – Joe Boyd Interview
Joe Boyd is a legend in music from producing Pink Floyd and Nick Drake to his Hannibal world music label, and more. Now he’s written a book about the influence of world music on western culture.
Playlists
Monday, Sept 2, 2024 – Echoes Program 2436A
Our CD of the month is a galactic journey from Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy. The keyboardist and guitarist take a more ambient approach on their album, Spinning on a Cosmic Dime.
CD of the Month
Echoes Sept CD of the Month: Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy
I’m always a little skeptical of music masquerading as tone poems, citing some vast vista like the Grand Canyon or the Himalayas or the Taj Mahal that is inspiring the music. I’m sure that’s true for many, but most instrumental artists tell me the titles come after the event of recording. Once I got a…
Coming Up
Weekend, Sept 14-15, 2024 – Trentemøller & Garrison
Danish composer Trentemøller has been crafting electronic pop since the early 2000s. He has a new album called Dreamweaver that taps his influences from dream-pop to shoegaze.