Several Echoes Artists are nominated in this years Grammy Awards including Steve Roach, Bonobo, Odesza, and Brian Eno. We take an Echoes look at the good and bad of this years nominees.
Reviews & Commentary
60th Annual Grammy Award Nominees
Tag: Ambient
Playlists
Tuesday, November 28th, 2017- Echoes Program 1748B
Film composer Jeff Rona has worked with Hans Zimmer, Lisa Gerrard and Jon Hassell. Now he has released his first solo album after 4 decades in music. He talks about “Projector.”
Playlists
Friday, November 24th, 2017-Echoes Program 1747E
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by English electronic band Radium 88’s “Perpetual Emotion Machine” and Dungen get remixed on “Haxan Versions by Prins Thomas.”
Playlists
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017-Echoes Program 1747C
Japanese world fusionist Hiroki Okano returns with two new albums of electronic dreams. And we’ll hear the dream pop artist known as Kauf who has released his debut album, Regrowth.
Playlists
Tuesday, November 21st, 2017-Echoes Program 1747B
HDLSS (Headless) are children of Kanye West who have gone in a more ambient direction with an ambient soul sound. Hear them do it live when they play tonight on Echoes
Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes – Blue Skies
Three hours of continuous instrumental music as expansive as a blue sky, including new music from Darshan Ambient, Jeff Pearce, The Irresistible Force, and more.
Reviews & Commentary
Poppy Ackroyd’s Driving Video for “Trains”
English composer Poppy NoGood is a composer who has the drive of Prequell and the moods of Dustin O’Halloran. She has a subtly surreal video out for her song, “Trains.”
Playlists
Monday, November 20th, 2017-Echoes Program 1747A
Tom Caufield is a veteran musician and one of the most inventive and overlooked guitarists around. His albums are conceptual works that take the acoustic guitar beyond what you’d expect. Albums like Moog and Nylon and Forging the Moonlight take the instrument into new terrain. His latest album, Wash the Dusk with Silver, is an ambient chamber music masterpiece.
Interview Podcast
Prequell’s Thomas Roussel in Echoes Podcast
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Whether composing for high fashion or cinematic expanses of the mind, Prequell is creating a 21st century symphonic music. Hear it when we talk to Thomas Roussel of Prequell in Echoes Podcast.
Playlists
Friday, November 10th, 2017-Echoes Program 1745E
On a Slow Flow Echoes, it’s new music from Behind the Shadow Drops. That’s a solo project from Takaakira Goto. He’s the founding member of the Japanese guitar band Mono.