The Echoes Top 25 for April includes the the CD of the Month for April by All India Radio, the March CD of the Month by by Miranda Lee Richards and the debut of The Great American Canyon Band.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for April 2016
Tag: Ambient
Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes – Earth Day Dreaming
Earth Day Dreaming is a seven-hour instrumental soundscape inspired by the natural world. We’ll hear environmental sounds turned into music, and compositions that evoke those natural scenes.
Playlists
Friday April 22nd, 2016-Echoes Program 1616E
On this Earth Day, we create a soundscape born from the planet, inspired by the riches of this earth that we seem so intent on destroying.
Interview Podcast
John Luther Adams in the Echoes Podcast
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John Luther Adams talks about his award-winning composition, Become Ocean, and his decision to leave Alaska in the Echoes Podcast.
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2016-Echoes Program 1616B
Brooke Waggoner is a classically trained pianist with a degree in music but she went a different way, composing her own songs.
Reviews & Commentary
Klaus Schulze: Moondawn at 40
Klaus Schulze is an icon of electronic music, exploring a sound that still resonates well after his first recordings in the early 1970s. Moondawn is one of those recordings celebrating its 40th Anniversary.
Playlists
Friday, April 15th, 2016-Echoes Program 1615E
We’ll listen to one of the seminal albums of 70s electronic music, Klaus Schulze’s 1976 album, Moondawn.
Interview Podcast
Miranda Lee Richards in the Echoes Podcast
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On her new album, Echoes of the Dreamtime, Miranda Lee Richards takes folk sounds and deploys them through delayed guitar and psychedelic hues.
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2016-Echoes Program 1615C
Deborah Martin is one of those shadowy figures in the electronic music world. She has a new album of mystic inspired works called Eye of the Wizard. She casts its spell in an Echoes interview.
Reviews & Commentary
Big Ears 2016
Drones, lconic alt-rock group out of depth. More drones. Charming elders of the old vanguard. A master of pink noise and symphonic expanse. Drones. Celtic aires. Gothic metal. Only at the 2016 Big Ears Festival.