Trumpeter Jon Hassell has one of the most distinct trumpet sounds in modern music and he created an entire sub-genre, Fourth World Music. We celebrate his 80th with commentary from Brian Eno, Steve Roach and more.
Jean-Michel Jarre’s 1976 album, Oxygene remains one of the signposts of electronic music. He returns to it with Oxygene 3 as he prepares to embark on his first ever US. Tour. He talks about his electronic evolution on Echoes.
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In the Echoes Podcast French electronic musician Jean-Michel Jarre talks about oxygene then and now.
We turn emerald green in our annual exploration of all things Celtic. We’ll hear music born in traditional roots, music that explodes those roots and sounds from the outer edges of the Celtic contingent.
Irish singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan comes in to perform songs over her darkly nuanced album, At Swim, live on Echoes.
Jean-Michel Jarre’s 1976 album, Oxygene remains one of the signposts of electronic music. He returns to it with Oxygene 3 as he prepares to embark on his first ever US. Tour. He talks about his electronic evolution on Echoes.
Mike Oldfield is best known for his 1973 epic, Tubular Bells, but one of his most beloved recordings is his third album, 1975’s Ommadawn. Like Tubular Bells it was two, side-long journeys, this time into a sound that was pastoral, Celtic and African.
Coming up on Echoes, it’s new music by Sohn, an English singer-songwriter living in Vienna and turning his songs into a rustic ambient sound on his new album, Rennen.
Ry X is a musician from Australia who resides in that zone of ambient folk music like Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens and Fink. He released a beautiful album last year called Dawn that draws from his surfer boy childhood in Australia, life in Berlin, and his global travels.
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In the Echoes Podcast, Mike Oldfield takes us inside two of his epic works, 1975’s Ommadawn and 2017’s Return to Ommadawn. Tragedy and nostalgia beset both of these wonderful works.