We enter a dream state with Kelly Lee Owens. She’s an electronic musician and singer who hovers between dreampop and EDM. John Diliberto drops a couple of tracks off her album Dreamstate.
It’s Ambiences in Black when we turn the Echoes prism onto the African and black influences in ambient music. They come from many sources, jazz, R&B, Hip-hop and Africa itself.
Two masters of strings, from guitar to ngoni, when we talk to Joss Jaffe and Jim Kimo West. Jaffe is a musical explorer. West is a guitarist with a reputation for Hawaiian slack key music.
On this Valentine’s Day Week, it’s Echoes of Love. We’ll explore love songs that take us to the sensual and the erotic, with music from Cigarettes After Sex, Lana Del Rey and more.
On the next Echoes, our February CD of the Month, Late Day Summer Breeze by Nashville filmmaker, artist, and bassist Dieter Spears. Join John Diliberto as we get out of the cold.
We talk to Immersion and SUSS. These are two artists who you hear a lot on Echoes that have recently converged for a brilliant new album that is a true meeting of differing musical cultures.
New music by Wouter Kellerman, Eru Matsumoto and Chandrika Tandon. This trio of flutes, cello and voice creates a world fusion meditation called Triveni. We travel its paths.
We head into space on the next Echoes when we hear music by Paul Ellis & Pabellón Sintético. It’s a trip through sequencer melodies and synchronized rhythms from Veiled Portraits.
New music by George Wallace. He began as a rock artist in the 1980s, but he turned to instrumental, electronic-based music that hovers between New Age and Progressive Rock.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music from Thierry David. He’s been making inventive electronic music since 1987. In recent years he’s gone heavily ambient. He has a new album called Six Waves.