Bathe in the warmth of music sunshine on an Echoes Summer Solstice Soundscape. Echoes takes through you the summer as we track the midnight sun and explore the sounds of the season.
On the next Echoes we look to the skies with Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner and Nico Muhly when we hear music from their album, Planetarium. We’ll also hear music from singer-songwriter Lexie Roth, daughter of guitarist Arlen Roth.
Cigarettes After Sex is a band whose sultry sound creates a cinematic rock noir. We’ll also hear pianist Catherine Marie Charlton’s I Dream About This World, the Wyeth Album..
On the next Echoes, The Cranberries return “something Else,” an album of acoustic and orchestral renditions of their best known songs from the 90s. And new music by Adam Werner.
Patrick Watson is a Canadian band that has been making a dreamy art pop since the early 21st century. On their latest album, Love Songs for Robots, they use sci-fi metaphor and ethereal arrangements for a deeper, more introspective sound.
Coming up on Echoes music from the Arab underground when we hear Yasmine Hamdan and her new album Al Jamilat (The Beautiful Ones). We’ll also hear new music from Clannad’s Moya Brennan and her album, Canvas.
On the next Echoes it’s Nordic Dreams. From Sigur Ros to Agnes Obel, Erik Wøllo to Ane Brun we’ll hear the sound coming out of Scandinavian musicians that seems to emerge from the other side of consciousness.
The Zone Music Awards honor electronic, ambient, new age and contemporary instrumental music. They just held their annual awards show in New Orleans. John Diliberto zones in on the winners.
Coming up on Echoes, it’s new music by Sohn, an English singer-songwriter living in Vienna and turning his songs into a rustic ambient sound on his new album, Rennen.
Coming up on the next Echoes, it’s new music by the dream-pop band London Grammar and a singer from New Orleans named Maggie Koerner goes down deep on a new EP produced by Fink