Her name is ironically ostentatious, but her music isn’t. Emmy the Great is Emma-Lee Moss. She was born in Hong Kong, spent her teen years in London, and has bounced between there, New York and Los Angeles.
Coming up on Echoes we’ll hear a song by Metallica. It won’t be them playing it, but the band of sisters known as SHEL.
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.
Six hours of continuous instrumental music that featuring colorful musical imagery. It includes music from Brian Eno, David Arkenstone, Jean-Michel Jarre, Robert Rich, and many others.
Mutual Benefit is a music project of singer-songwriter Jordan Lee. He’s been acclaimed in places like Stereogum and Pitchfork.
Hammock’s Echoes CD of the Month, “Everything and Nothing” leads the Echoes Top 25 for May, followed by Haroula Rose’s “Here the Blue River,” Jean-Michel Jarre’s “Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise” and Radiohead’s “A Moon Shaped Pool.” See the complete list.
Six hours of continuous instrumental music that featuring diverse musical streams converging and mixing. It includes music from Vic Hennegan, Bill Frisell, Nik Bartsch, Robert Rich, Tomita, BT, and many others.
Coming up on Echoes we’ll hear a couple of artists exploring an ambient pop sound. Ry X, is a musician from Canada an album called Under Water and we’ve got Baby Alpaca, a whimsical name for a group that has Depeche Mode in their DNA.
Harold Budd is a legend in the ambient world. His early 1980 albums with Brian Eno, The Plateaux of Mirror and The Pearl, are signposts of ambient music. Now he’s turned 80.
Slow Meadow is a lush ambient chamber music project put together by keyboardist/guitarist Matt Kidd. His debut album was a CD of the Month in 2015 and now he comes into Echoes to play music live in a trio of electronics, violin and cello.