It’s been an incredible six months for music, and you’ll hear our top picks on The Best of Echoes 2020, So Far. John Diliberto counts down the mid-year Echoes Top 25.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020 – Program 2026B
Tag: Ambient
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Monday, June 29, 2020 – Echoes Program 2026A
Moby talks about his prescient new album, All Visible Objects. Written mostly in 2019, it’s themes of revolution, isolation and contemplation seem to fit right in with these times.
Coming Up
Weekend, July 11-12, 2020 – Aukai’s Game Trails & Blue Landscapes
The July CD of the Month is Game Trails by Aukai. Aukai is the world fusion group headed up by Marcus Sieber of the duo, Mirabai Ceiba. We also have an interview with Blue Landscapes.
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Friday, July 10, 2020 – New Music from JFDR & Spinger
It’s dreamy, downtempo music by JFDR, that’s an abbreviation of her more complicated Icelandic name. We’ll also hear electronic music by Spinger from the album, Invisible Tree.
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Friday, June 26, 2020 – Echoes Program 2025E
We talk to Gunnar Spardel, who composes somber and serene chamber music under his own name and upbeat, progressive electronic music under the guise of Tigerforest.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Tangerine Dream Documentary
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Tangerine Dream-50 Years of Electronic Meditations: The Echoes Documentary https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/EchoesPodcast-TangerineDream-50th-update.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS In the Echoes Podcast, the Tangerine Dream Documentary 50 years ago Tangerine Dream began recording their electronic music in what was then West Berlin. Founded by Edgar Froese, Tangerine Dream has epitomized the electronic age of music, recording…
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Thursday, June 25, 2020 – Echoes Program 2025D
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.
Coming Up
Wednesday, July 8, 2020 – Polica’s Channy Leaneagh Interview
Singer Channy Leanagh fell off a roof and broke her back, but that didn’t stop her from recording a great album with her group, Polica. We talk about the album When We Stay Alive.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020 – Echoes Program 2025C
Polly Scattergood is the singer for OnDeadWaves and now she has a new solo album called In This Moment. We’ll also hear a hymn for the pandemic by Mimi Goese and Ben Neill.
Coming Up
Tuesday, July 7, 2020 – Blue Landscapes Interview
Blue Landscapes, the duo of flutist Damjan Krajacic and pianist Robert Thies, talk about improvising impressionistic ambient chamber music with only acoustic instruments.