New music by French guitarist Pierre Bensusan. He came up during the days of Windham Hill guitarists like Michael Hedges who named a song after Bensusan. He has a new album called Azwan.
Stomp on 2020 and blow it out of your mind when we dance in 2021 with Downtempo New Year’s Eve Soundscape. The chill is turned up to 11 as we swing in on electronic sounds.
Ryan West records as Rival Consoles, a resolutely electronic project, but he still thinks of his chromium plated compositions as songs. He calls it “songwriting with an electronic palate.”
It’s a new generation of German electronic artists when we talk to Thomas Lemmer and Sebastian Pabst. They’ve been churning out downtempo dreams and electro-lounge moods at a prolific pace.
The Best of Echoes 2020. We pick out our 30 Favorite albums of the year covering the range of the Echoes Soundscape. This is a Best of list like no other. 2020 Sucked! This list doesn’t.
We’ll hear the latest recording by French guitarist Pierre Bensusan. He came up during the days of Windham Hill guitarists like Michael Hedges, who named a song after him. His latest album is Azwan.
Echoes Top 25 for November 2020. Digitonal, our CD of the Month, is at the top, followed by Ian Boddy, Steve Roach, Ane Brun (twice!) Tom Caufield and 19 other great CDs.
Singer Ane Brun releases a perfect pair of CDs, After the Great Storm and How Beauty Holds the Hand of Sorrow, exploring themes of loss and existence. Both are the Echoes CD of the Month.
The Best of Echoes 2020. In a bad year there was great music. Hear 20 of the Top 30 albums for 2020 and then hear an interview with Kevin Keller who is on that list.