Six years ago, the producer known as Dinner released a song called “Going Out” that seems like it could’ve been recorded right now. So the band Loma released a beautiful cover of it.
Emancipator, Rena Jones, & Flowerpulse weave their electronic roots into the ambient excursion of Xylem, their debut album. John Diliberto goes to the garden with 3 electronic explorers.
Downtempo and down under artists Rufus Du Sol get remixed and we’ll hear from a tribute to the eponymous debut of The Velvet Underground and Nico, with covers by artists like Michael Stipe and Sharon Van Etten.
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.
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.
We dream. Echoes takes us on an odyssey of dreams from surreal fantasies to images of love and memories of psychosis. But don’t worry. It’s only a dream on Echoes.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we’ll hear music by electronic artist Craig Padilla and guitarist Marvin Allen. Their album Strange Gravity taps into a retro-space music sound.
Billie Eilish’s latest album, Happier Than Ever, defies pop standards by being low-key, sonically sparse and pillow-talki intimate. We’ll hear a track from that, as well as new music by Erik Wøllo
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.
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.