Solar eclipses have inspired a lot of music over the years. With the upcoming solar eclipse on August 21, Echoes brings us five albums that will create the cinematic soundscape for this solar event.
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Echoes interviews Pepper Proud and Masaru Higasa of New Age band, Yaima. We discuss Timothy Leary, transformational festivals, new album OvO, and sensory deprivation tanks.
Ireland’s Tiny Magnetic Pets are creating retro electronic pop and they have one of the originators of that sound as a guest, Wolfgang Flur from Kraftwerk. And Chronotope Project returns with Ovum.
The video for Ulrich Schnauss’ “Love Grows Out of Thin Air” is a heartbreaking story of loss and sadness.
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..
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Falling You’s Shine features many talented contributors as vocalists and lyricists. Instrumentalist John Zorko and two vocalists, Anji Lum and Danielle Colbeck, discuss thematic lyrics, influences, and gongs.
We talk with Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan. With music born in the Lebanese civil war, and a nomadic life since childhood, she’s created an Arab electronica that transcends worlds.
Coming up on Echoes, we’ll hear the sound of Yaima. They are a duo exploring an intersection between New Age mysticism and electronic dance music. We’ll also hear the debut of FLOW with Fiona, Lawrence, Oster & Will.
Ireland’s Tiny Magnetic Pets are creating retro electronic pop and they have one of the originators of that sound as a guest, Wolfgang Flur from Kraftwerk. And Chronotope Project returns with Ovum.
Yaima is a band floating on waves of chilled electronic moods, world music rhythms and transformational philosophies. They talk about the new album, OvO and roots in Appalachian music.
