Gracie and Rachel’s latest album is Hello Weakness, You Make Me Strong. They talk music, anger, and pandemic. Then we remember composer Harold Budd who passed on 12/7 with an hour special.
The Best of Echoes 2020. Echoes has gone through the hundreds of recordings that we’ve played and picked out the Top 30 albums for 2020, a horrible year in life, but a great year in music.
Norway’s Ane Brun’s albums After The Great Storm and How Beauty Holds the Hand of Sorrow are Echoes CD of the Month. We interview Iceland’s Ólafur Arnalds. Hear them this weekend on Echoes.
Electronic artist Ian Boddy’s new album, Axiom, with a classic retro-space music sound. We’ll also hear ambient piano by Jon Durant and ambient chamber music by Digitonal.
Electronics meets classical instrumentation in the world that Digitonal has occupied for much of this century, as avatars of ambient chamber music.
Echoes Top 25 for October 2020. Andreas Vollenweider is at the top, followed by Marya Stark, Tom Caufield, Michael Whalen & Blue Monk, Gracie & Rachel and 20 other great CDs.
Electronic artist Ian Boddy’s new album, Axiom, with a classic retro-space music sound. We’ll also hear ambient piano by Jon Durant and ambient chamber music by Digitonal.
This weekend on Echoes, Digitonal return with their third CD of the Month, Set the Weather Fair. Digitonal are avatars of ambient chamber music and this is one of their best.
The California Guitar Trio’s album, Elegy, was recorded in AirBnB living rooms pre-Covid. Shpongle’s Simon Posford spent his time in quarantine creating a pandemic lockdown soundtrack.