An Echoes Summer Solstice. We let the sunshine in as we orchestrate your soundscape for the longest day of the year with Jake Shimabukuro, George Winston, and Sun’s Signature.
Playlists
Tuesday, June 21 – Echoes Program 2225B
Tag: Ambient
Coming Up
Monday, July 4, 2022 – Echoes Ambient Americana
For July 4th we take you into twanguility with an Ambient Americana soundscape. It’s country and western distilled though Brian Eno ambiences, but still with that folky twang.
Playlists
Monday, June 20, 2022 – Echoes Program 2225A
An interview with Norway’s Röyksopp. An exploding puff ball mushroom inspired their name, and their music has ranged from ambient to dance pop. Their new album is Profound Mysteries.
Reviews & Commentary
Kraftwerk at The Met Philadelphia
Kraftwerk brought their aging 3-D show to The Met Philadelphia, with images of the Man-Machine, Space and Robots. And everyone stood up.
Coming Up
Weekend, July 2-3, 2022 – Steve Reich & Best of Echoes So Far
Composer Steve Reich is 86 years old but he’s still making the music of tomorrow. He has a new album, Reich/Richter, inspired by paintings of Gerhard Richter and a new book, Conversations.
Playlists
Weekend, June 18-19, 2022 – Programs 2224A & 2224B
Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater talks about their new album, The Great Awakening. It’s a subtle work of ambient songs employing nature sounds that Meiburg recorded all over the world.
Coming Up
Friday, July 1, 2022 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by David Arkenstone and Wouter Kellerman. The two musicians got together for an album of joyful world fusion called Pangaea.
Playlists
Friday, June 17, 2022 – Echoes Program 2224E
The Smile is Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood from Radiohead, producer Nigel Godrich, and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner. We’ll hear from their debut, A Light for Attracting Attention.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg
Playlists
Thursday, June 16, 2022 – Echoes Program 2224D
On a Slow Flow Echoes, Tony Gerber & Giles Reaves combine Native American flutes, percussion and synths on the album, The Tree. We’ll also hear The Expanding Universe from their album, One.