Steve Roach was voted #2 of 30 Icons of Echoes. John Diliberto looks across the career of this influential artist who has gone from Berlin School sequencers to techno-tribal and back again.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Nov 25, 2020 – 30 Icons: Steve Roach
Tag: Ambient
Playlists
Wednesday, Nov 11, 2020 – Echoes Program 2045C
Music from Steve Roach’s new album of modular synthesizer sequencer symmetry dervishes called Tomorrow. We’ll also hear Zero 7, Peter Gabriel, and a new single from Lana Del Rey.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Nov 24, 2020 – Thievery Corporation Interview
The many moods of Thievery Corporation. We talk with Eric Hilton, who has two ambient lounge albums out, and his Thievery partner, Rob Garza about a music born in dub and music sampling.
Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes – 30 Icons for 30 Years of Echoes
30 Icons of Echoes: the artists who have informed the show over our first 30 years. In this Wordless Echoes stream, we count down the list, starting with #30, and ending up at the #1 Icon of Echoes.
Playlists
Tuesday, Nov 10, 2020 – Echoes Program 2045B
The countdown starts for 30 Icons of Echoes. We’ll hear the artists who have provided the DNA of the Echoes Soundscape over our first 30 years.
Coming Up
Monday, Nov 23, 2020 – Hans-Joachim Roedelius Interview
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.
Playlists
Monday, Nov 9, 2020 – Echoes Program 2045A
It’s the 50th Anniversary of Kraftwerk. The iconic German electronic band released their debut album in 1970. We’ll look back on a band that altered the face of music for decades.
Coming Up
Weekend, Nov 21-22, 2020 – Ane Brun & ELP Debut
The Norwegian singer Ane Brun has been one of the understated sirens of dream pop. She talks about the loss and loneliness that informs much of her latest recordings.
Playlists
Weekend, Nov 7-8, 2020 – Programs 2044A & 2044B
Digitonal return with their third CD of the Month, Set the Weather Fair. Digitonal are avatars of ambient chamber music, mixing contemporary electronics with classical elegance and melodies.
Coming Up
Friday, Nov 20, 2020 – Slow Flow Echoes
Native American flute has been making a return to the Echoes Soundscape and on a Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear two of them, Kenneth Hooper’s Directions and Vicki Logan’s Born Out of Chaos.