The 15th Icon, Ludovico Einaudi, has supercharged classical music with his driving rhythms, ambient textures and melodic themes. We look back on his work over the last three decades.
Playlists
Wednesday, Mar 31, 2021 – Echoes Program 2113C
Tag: Ambient
Coming Up
Tuesday, Apr 13, 2021 – Digitonal Interview
Digitonal’s Set the Weather Fair was one of Echoes’ Top five Albums of 2020. Andy Dobson and Dom Graveson talk about their merging of classical moods and electronic ambiences and grooves.
News
Malcolm Cecil of Tonto’s Expanding Head Band R.I.P
Malcolm Cecil was an electronic pioneer whose duo, Tonto’s Expanding Head Band, planted the seeds of contemporary electornic music with the album Zero Time in 1971. He leaves at age 84.
Playlists
Tuesday, Mar 30, 2021 – Echoes Program 2113B
Lisa Gerrard returns in full force. She was barely on the last Dead Can Dance album, but her ecstatic sound is all over a new collaboration called Burn. We’ll also hear from All India Radio.
Coming Up
Monday, Apr 12, 2021 – Henrik Lindstrand Interview
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
Monday, Mar 29, 2021 – Echoes Program 2113A
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
Weekend, Apr 10-11, 2021 – Carl Weingarten & Decouplr
Covid-19 survival this weekend on Echoes with Carl Weingarten’s pastoral pandemic tone poems on Ember Days, the CD of the Month and Decouplr whose debut album was born in pandemic.
Playlists
Weekend, Mar 27-28, 2021 – Programs 2112A & 2112B
The German duo Grandbrothers, who play a grand piano hooked up with electronics and a machine for an orchestral sound. We tickle the ivories and program the drum machines of Grandbrothers.
Coming Up
Friday, Apr 9, 2021 – Slow Flow Echoes
Hear new collaborations with Emancipator, Rena Jones & Flowerpulse’s “Xylem:, Deborah Martin & Jill Haley’s The Silence of Grace and Ian Boddy & Markus Reuters Outland on a Slow Flow Echoes.
Playlists
Friday, Mar 26, 2021 – Echoes Program 2112E
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Eric Hilton, one half of the brain trust of Thievery Corporation. His new album, Infinite Everywhere is a laid-back ambient lounge release.