“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T.S. Elliott Hear Steve Roach talk about Skeleton Keys tonight on Echoes. As Steve Roach’s Skeleton Keys opens, with a reverse sequencer pattern fading-in as if going…
Echoes Top 25 for April finds Tangerine Dream’s “Supernormal” at the top, followed by downtempo albums from Sonomad and Chandeen.
Echoes Top 25 for March finds Lanterna’s CD of the Month, “Backyards” on top. It’s followed by April’s CD pick, Tangerine Dream’s “Supernormal” and February’s selection, Fernwood’s “Arcadia.”
A six-hour Global Village Symphony drawn from musical traditions around the world, featuring Afro Celt Sound System, Yo-Yo Ma, Ali Akbar Khan, Huayucaltia, David Parsons, and many more.
Sherry Finzer is a classical flute player who has discovered another path, creating ambient chamber music with electronic orchestration and flute choirs.
A six-hour soundscape inspired by the music of Tangerine Dream. It includes music from Tangerine Dream’s album Supernormal, the Echoes CD of the Month for April 2015. You’ll also hear classic T-Dream, excerpts from solo albums of band members, and music from artists inspired by Tangerine Dream.
Fernwood and Lanterna bring an Ambient Americana hue to the Echoes Top 25 for February. Both were Echoes CDs of the Month in February and March respectively. Rebekka Karijord, Zola Jesus and Shadowlands among the artists making their Echoes Top 25 debuts.
An Excursion in Ambient Americana from Lanterna is Echoes March CD of the MonthLanterna’s Backyards opens with the rollicking title track, a screaming ride down the Pacific Coast highway kind of song that you might expect to hear from the Eagles in their rare instrumental moments. It’s a great song with the twangy guitar and…
The New Age Grammy category is always the hardest to figure out. Every year there are obvious choices I think should win. Yet last year, in what had been one of the best collection of nominees in a while with Brian Eno, Kitaro, R. Carlos Nakai and Peter Kater, an unknown and relatively unheard nominee, Laura…
If it wasn’t for Martin Mull’s 1970s TV series, Fernwood T2 Night, the name Fernwood would more instantly conjure up pastoral images of a backwoods town from a time gone by. The band called Fernwood does that, only their backwoods could be in Bangalore, Senegal or in the Appalachian hills. It’s not that the music…