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Echoes’s John Diliberto reviews Hiroki Okano’s Return to the Soul, the Echoes CD of the Month for December. Okano is a Zen gardener of sound where everything is balanced and in its proper place.
Hiroki Okano is a Japanese musician creating a unique and meditative world fusion, taking tradition and bringing it into the 21st century on his December CD of the Month, Return to the Soul.
We head east on Echoes for our December CD of the Month. It’s by Japanese composer Hiroki Okano. He’s a multi-instrumentalist working in nature based ambient music as well as electronic dance music. He has a new album of pastoral dreams called Return to the Soul.
On a Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear new music by California electronic duo Ascendant from Particle Horizon and the latest by bassist Gustaf Fjelstrom from the album, Prologue.
Echoes Top 25 for November’s is topped by our CD of the month Todd Boston’s One, followed by the debut album from FLOW, Tom Caulfield’s Wash the Dusk with Silver. See the complete list.
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.
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.”
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.”
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.
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