The April CD of the Month, Ember Days, is an album of intricate and pastoral excursions by Carl Weingarten. He weaves multiple guitars and pedal steel into the sound of country meets heaven.
Playlists
Monday, Apr 5, 2021 – Echoes Program 2114A
Tag: Ambient
Coming Up
Weekend, Apr 17-18, 2021 – Henrik Lindstrand & Digitonal
The keyboardist for the Danish Al-rock band, Kashmir, takes the neo-classical, solo piano route on a trilogy of recordings. We go inside the creaky piano sound of Henrik Lindstrand.
Playlists
Weekend, Apr 3-4, 2021 – Programs 2113A & 2113B
Ambient chamber composer Kevin Keller goes spiritual when heart surgery stops his heart from beating. He contemplates that experience on his album, The Front Porch of Heaven.
Coming Up
Friday, Apr 16, 2021 – Slow Flow Echoes
Mark Dwane has an album called Future Tense that features his guitar actually sounding like a guitar sometimes. We’ll also hear from the collection Imaginational Anthems Volume 10, Overseas Edition.
Best Of
Echoes March 2021 Top 25: Ravenna at the Top
Echoes Top 25 for March 2021. Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy’s Ravenna, the March CD of the Month, is at the top, followed by, Leandrul, Mint Julep, I Think Like Midnight, and 21 other great CDs.
Playlists
Friday, Apr 2, 2021 – Echoes Program 2113E
It’s a Slow Flow with new music by Lisa Bella Donna from The World She Wanted, Native flutes and Peruvian pan-pipes from Pamela Whitman & Cesar Villalobos, and the chill of Gold Lounge.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Bob Boilen and TONTO’s Malcolm Cecil
Coming Up
Thursday, Apr 15, 2021 – New Dimensions in World Fusion
We’ll hear the band AO Music’s African-inspired sound featuring singer Miriam Stockley, and we’ll hear a Bulgarian group called Trigaida, that mixes traditional Bulgarian singing and EDM.
Playlists
Thursday, Apr 1, 2021 – Echoes Program 2113D
SUSS is the tripped-out band that merges country, ambient, and psychedelic music and their side project, Numuen. Are they ambient Americana or psychedelic country. We suss it out.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Apr 14, 2021 – Icon Jean-Michel Jarre
We flip the switch on Jean-Michel Jarre, the 17th Icon of Echoes. He brought electronic music to global popularity with his 1977 album, Oxygene, bringing the space music sound to new audiences.