Echoes March CD of the Month is Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy’s latest pastoral opus, Ravenna. Inspired by Ravenna’s mosaics, they create musical mosaics, lacing keyboards, guitars and more.
The ambient chamber music of A Winged Victory for the Sullen, a collaboration between Dustin O’Halloran and Adam Wiltzie, explores darker terrain on Invisible Cities.
It’s the sound of the spirit when we talk with Shunia, the duo of Lisa Reagan and Suzanne Jackson. Then it’s Afro-futuristic jazz, world fusion and space music from the African Diaspora.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we trek into the Utah wilds to hear the latest album of guitar and bass improvisations by Endless Field, Alive in the Wilderness. Also music by Jon Hassell.
Music from Steve Roach’s album of modular synthesizer sequencer symmetry dervishes called Tomorrow. We’ll also hear Zero 7, Peter Gabriel, and a single from Lana Del Rey.
German electronic music legend Hans-Joachim Roedelius was a founder of Cluster and Harmonia. Lately, he’s gone acoustic and has even recorded for the Deutsche Grammophon classical label.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, Slow Motion. That’s a new album by French electronic artist Thierry David. We’ll also hear some solo flute by Sherry Finzer recorded in an industrial steel tank.
We ring the Tubular Bells of the 11th Icon of Echoes, Mike Oldfield. Oldfield made one of the signpost works of the 1970s, but he’s done so much more. We explore his vast career on Echoes.
Robert Rich is the 9th of 30 Icons of Echoes and we’ve picked ten of his best recordings from across his 40-year career that exemplify his genius, beauty and soul.