Echoes Top 25 for July 2021. Lanterna’s Hidden Drives, the July CD of the Month, is at the top, followed by Morcheeba, Winterlight, Bill Nelson, and 21 other great CDs.
Best Of
Echoes July 2021 Top 25: Lanterna on Top
Tag: downtempo
CD of the Month
Echoes Aug 2021 CD of the Month: Hybrid’s Black Halo
Hybrid has created an album for a pandemic world. “Black Halo” is part dystopian nightmare and part a hope for humanity. They tap EDM energies and soulful songwriting in a plea for the world.
Playlists
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 – Echoes Program 2130C
Sitarist Anoushka Shankar is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, but she’s going even further afield than her father. We’ll hear a track from Love Letters PS with her sister, Norah Jones.
Playlists
Tuesday, July 27, 2021 – Echoes Program 2130B
We hear some of the last music created by Harold Budd. The ambient artist passed last December, but he left his soundtrack to HBO’s I Know This Much Is True. We’ve got a track from that.
Playlists
Friday, July 23, 2021 – Echoes Program 2129E
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.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Aug 4, 2021 – Liquid Bloom & PERE, Tigerforest
Liquid Bloom teams up with PERE from Israel for an album of tribal electronic moods called Afar. We’ll hear that, and Tigerforest’s album, Discovery remixed as Re:Discovery.
Playlists
Wednesday, July 21, 2021 – Echoes Program 2129C
Jess Lamb and the Factory are a Cincinnati band fronted by singer Jess Lamb and with Warren Harrison. They’ve created a deep spiritual meditation partly shaped by Pandemic called You Are.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Aug 3, 2021 – Fall Concert Preview
Now that concerts are happening, we’ll take a look at some of the Echoes artists who might be coming your way including King Crimson, Gary Numan, Al Di Meola, Clannad and Dead Can Dance.
Playlists
Weekend, July 17-18, 2021 – Programs 2128A & 2128B
The electronica duo Hybrid takes us into the sometimes dark world of their new album, Black Halo. John Diliberto talks to Charlotte and Mike Truman about their album on Echoes.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Hybrid and George Winston
