William Tyler’s Modern Country leads Echoes’ Top 25 for AugustECHOES TOP 25 for August 2016 William Tyler – Modern Country (Merge Records) On Dead Waves – On Dead Waves (Mute) Marissa Nadler – Strangers (Sacred Bones Records) Aukai – Aukai (Aukai Music) Gileah Taylor – Songs for Late at Night Vol 2 (Casa Coraggio) Tor – Blue Book (Loci Records) Symbion Project…
On the 10th anniversary of his death, we remember electronic composer Richard Burmer. Burmer was among the California electronic scene of the early 1980s that included Steve Roach, Robert Rich and Michael Stearns.
The Album Leaf was on the leading edge of Post-rock, creating glitch strewn, melodic and ambient rock landscapes that embodied everything that the word “cinematic” implies. Almost every song on Between Waves has the feel of scenery streaming past a train window, a non-stop, yet shifting panorama of sound.
The Album Leaf was on the leading edge of Post-rock, creating glitch strewn, melodic and ambient rock landscapes that embodied everything that the word “cinematic” implies. Almost every song on Between Waves has the feel of scenery streaming past a train window, a non-stop, yet shifting panorama of sound.
The September Echoes CD of the Month is “Between Waves” by The Album Leaf. Spun by the hand of project founder Jimmy LaValle, the album weaves ambient textures with shifting cinematic melodies.
Guitar God Al Di Meola is on tour playing music from across his career, including Return to Forever, his early solo albums and his latest release, Elysium. It was a fusion fury at the Keswick Theater in Glenside, PA.
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the National Park system, this six-hour uninterrupted instrumental soundscape starts out with music inspired by our National Parks: Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, Glacier National Park and more. The journey then continues past the parks into the wilderness and out into space, with new music by Johann Johannsson, Jairamji, and Burnt Belief, as well as some old favorites from Patrick O’Hearn, Steve Tibbetts, and many more.
Dave Preston is a guitarist who makes the kind of ambient guitar music that would find him in the company of Robert Fripp, Jeff Pearce or Ashra, but that same music also found him in the company of Justin Timberlake.
Ziemba is the performance vehicle for New York-based artist and musician René Kladzyk. She’s just released a new, artfully directed video for her haunting song, “Hope is a Fold.”
Technology & Nature Merge in Video for Edamame’s “Tree Shadows.”Edamame is food for your ears. It’s the moniker of Ed Harris out of Chicago and he’s released ten albums in the last 4 years. His latest is Ochre. Harris uses a lot of found sound and natural environments in this music that might be called…