On The Longest Sleep Through the Darkest Days, UK ambient band Winterlight create an enveloping and deep journey in the quiet spaces of landscape and mind. It’s Echoes March CD of the Month.
CD of the Month
March 2017 CD of the Month: Winterlight
Tag: Ambient
Playlists
Weekend, February 24 & 25, 2018-Echoes Program 1808A
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark were among the biggest of the first wave of English synthpop artists. They take us back to the early days and into the future like they always have.
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Friday, February 23rd, 2018-Echoes Program 1808E
On a Slow Flow Echoes we hear new music by Jeff Johnson and Brian Dunning from Eirlandia and Mystical Sun’s Overview Effect.
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2018-Echoes Program 1808D
Moby is not happy with the state of American affairs and you can hear it in a song called “Mere Anarchy.” It’s from his new album, Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt. We’ll also hear a new song by shoegaze dreamers Wooden Shjips off their album, “V” (five).
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Wednesday February 21st, 2018-Echoes Program 1808C
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
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2018-Echoes Program 1808B
We talk with electro-pop pioneer Thomas Dolby. The musician who had a hit in the 80s with “Blinded Me With Science is now a professor Johns Hopkins’ Peabody Institute.
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Monday, February 19th, 2018-Echoes Program 1808A
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark were among the biggest of the first wave of English synthpop artists. They take us back to the early days and into the future like they always have.
Playlists
Friday, February 16th, 2018-Echoes Program 1807E
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we’ll hear music by guitarist Al Di Meola who expands his sound on a new album called Opus. We’ll also hear from Lane 8 and one of the instrumental tracks from his album, Little By Little.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Forrest Fang & Jóhann Jóhannsson
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Composer Forrest Fang talks about his ambient world music soundscapes and we remember Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson with a 2009 Echoes Interview. Jóhannsson died on February 10, 2018.
Playlists
Wednesday February 14th, 2018-Echoes Program 1807C
On the next Echoes, it’s a soundscape for St. Valentine’s Day. Echoes goes to the romantic side for a night of warm sounds, chilled ambiences, sensual grooves and serene love songs.