Hear New Age Ancient and Modern. Prompted by the January death of New Age pioneer Iasos, Echoes takes a spin through some of the earliest new age music as well as some of its more recent exponents.
Listen to looping guitar live when we hear Italian guitarist Fabio Mittino. He has a highly sophisticated looping and processing system and some burning leads that he puts into his sound.
Kevin Keller talks about his album Evensong. It is partly based on the chants and hymns of 12th century Abbess Hildegard von Bingen. Kevin brings these gothic sounds into the 21st century.
Take a trip into sequencer delirium with our February CD of the Month, The Desert Winds of Change by Steve Roach. It is a non-stop journey of synchronized patterns and soaring melodies.
New music by new wave pioneers, Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark. This electronic duo is still creating sophisticated electronic pop today. Their new album is Bauhaus Staircase.
New music by Limina, an ambient chamber music project from Tyler Durham. He recorded with members of the London Symphony Orchestra to get the crystalline sound of his album, Coming Home.
February 8 marks the 50th anniversary of Brian Eno’s solo debut, Here Come the Warm Jets. This release set the stage for one of the most important artists of the last half-century.
On the next Echoes, new music from The Smile. That’s the project of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood. We’ll also hear the latest by Mitski, who explores the dark side of our psyche.
It’s an orchestra of the imagination with music by Orchestra Indigo. This is a project of rock artist Rick Randlett. He goes into a cocktail lounge in space for his album, The Small Hours.
Head into psychedelic space on the 50th anniversary of Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra. This is a seminal album that essentially launched the whole sequencer school of electronics.