Christmas is effectively over but we hang on to the spirit with music to help you settle in for that other “long winter’s nap,” the one that happens after the presents are opened, the food is eaten and the wine is drunk.
Celebrate the Christmas Eve with a different kind of seasonal music from Tori Amos, The Piano Guys, Al Di Meola’s Winter Nights, Enya’s And Winter Came, and R. Carlos Nakai’s Winter Dreams.
You’ve heard all the carols in all their variations. But tonight we’re going to celebrate a different part of the season, one that’s rooted in the stars. It’s an Echoes Winter Solstice.
Upon the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Echoes takes a trip into sci-fi space with a different kind of soundtrack on a Sci-Fi Echoes.
Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese is dead, but his band mates are continuing on with a new album called Quantum Key based on Froese compositions.
Echoes listeners have voted for their favorite albums of 2015. See the results in The Best of Echoes 2015 Listener Poll
On a Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear from two albums with cosmic themes, but each comes from a very different perspective. We’ll hear from Zero One’s trippy “Signals” and Daniel Hart’s score to “Comet”.
Echoes host John Diliberto has picked his Top 25 albums of 2015. They range from dream pop to sequencer dervishes to ambient chamber music to fusion and beyond.
It’s another Grammy Award season. The nominees has been announced and it seems like every year is more mundane than the one before when it comes to new music, adventurous music and even New Age music.
Brian Eno’s “Discreet Music,” released 40 years ago, is the seminal work of ambient music. A Toronto new music group arranges it for acoustic instruments.