New music by new wave pioneers, Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark. This electronic duo is still creating sophisticated electronic pop in the 21st century. Their new album is Bauhaus Staircase.
The Ambient Country band SUSS struggles with loss and finds a way to be reborn. After co-founding member Gary Lieb died, they had to reevaluate not only their existence, but their sound.
As if the world isn’t scary enough, we’ve got an Echoes Halloween. John Diliberto is your sonic crypt keeper, creating a soundscape of whispered voices, ambient ghosts and hip death goddesses.
Mimi Page is an auteur of electronic dream pop and a composer of video game scores. But her new album, Sound Healing Vol One takes her in a more meditative direction. We talk to her on Echoes.
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.
Enter the monastery with Kevin Keller’s November CD of the Month. It’s called Evensong and it is centered around chants from the Medieval Abbess, Hildegard von Bingen.
Abbess Hildegard von Bingen composed some of the most serene and transcendent music ever. Kevin Keller adapts them on a new album called Evenson, Echoes November CD of the Month.
Oboist Russel Walder talks about his new album, Speak to the Storm. It’s a deep world fusion journey, spiked by sampled Middle Eastern and Indian instruments, percussion and voices.
Darkside is the trippy electronica duo of Nicolas Jaar & Dave Harrington who released their debut album 10 years ago. It’s getting reissued in a deluxe edition. We revisit our 2014 interview.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, the last music by Jeff Beck. He teamed up with actor Johnny Depp on the album 18, but the best tracks are Beck’s solo instrumentals. We’ll hear one of those.