John McLaughlin returns with a new edition of the acoustic Indian fusion group, Shakti. Then we count down the Best of Echoes 2023 So Far. Did your favorites make the list?
New music by Secret Sky, a group comprised of musicians from Loreena McKennitt’s band, fronted by cellist and singer Caroline Lavelle. The new album is called Opium.
Let the sunshine in as Echoes orchestrates a soundscape for the Summer Solstice. We’ll hear music from Jake Shimabukuro, George Winston, and Max Richter’s The New Four Seasons.
We enter a hallucinogenic state when we talk with Delerium, the long-lived dream pop duo. We’ll talk to Rhys Fulber and Bill Leeb about their electronic approach to pop.
New music by Amaara, the recording persona of actress Kaelen Ohm. Her new album is Child of Venus. We’ll also hear from guitarist Tom Caufield’s new album, The Whisper Resistance.
Michael Whalen’s Our April Tigers tops the Echoes Top 25 for May, followed by Lucinda Chua, Shana Cleveland, Nashville Ambient Ensemble, and 21 more great artists.
Seduction & entrancement are part of Echoes June CD of the Month. Travelers Cloth by Robert Rich is an album of sensual moods threaded on flutes, percussion, ambient lap-steel & synthesizers.
We talk to Ladytron, who have been making electrified pop sounds for all of the 21st Century. Helen Marnie and Daniel Hunt tell us their story and about their latest album, Time’s Arrow.