We get Shpongled when we talk to Simon Posford and Raja Ram of the psychedelic electronic duo, Shpongle. They talk about their hallucinogenic sound and their deep music backgrounds.
Coming Up
Monday, Apr 26, 2021 – Shpongle Interview
Tag: downtempo
Coming Up
Friday, Apr 23, 2021 – Slow Flow Echoes
Simon Posford of Shpongle has a new album of ambient moods, Flux & Contemplation, and Tom Holkenborg, a.k.a. Junkie XL, has a new soundtrack for White Lines. Go outside the lines on Echoes.
Best Of
Echoes March 2021 Top 25: Ravenna at the Top
Echoes Top 25 for March 2021. Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy’s Ravenna, the March CD of the Month, is at the top, followed by, Leandrul, Mint Julep, I Think Like Midnight, and 21 other great CDs.
Playlists
Wednesday, Mar 31, 2021 – Echoes Program 2113C
The 15th Icon, Ludovico Einaudi, has supercharged classical music with his driving rhythms, ambient textures and melodic themes. We look back on his work over the last three decades.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Apr 13, 2021 – Digitonal Interview
Digitonal’s Set the Weather Fair was one of Echoes’ Top five Albums of 2020. Andy Dobson and Dom Graveson talk about their merging of classical moods and electronic ambiences and grooves.
Playlists
Tuesday, Mar 30, 2021 – Echoes Program 2113B
Lisa Gerrard returns in full force. She was barely on the last Dead Can Dance album, but her ecstatic sound is all over a new collaboration called Burn. We’ll also hear from All India Radio.
Coming Up
Weekend, Apr 10-11, 2021 – Carl Weingarten & Decouplr
Covid-19 survival this weekend on Echoes with Carl Weingarten’s pastoral pandemic tone poems on Ember Days, the CD of the Month and Decouplr whose debut album was born in pandemic.
Coming Up
Friday, Apr 9, 2021 – Slow Flow Echoes
Hear new collaborations with Emancipator, Rena Jones & Flowerpulse’s “Xylem:, Deborah Martin & Jill Haley’s The Silence of Grace and Ian Boddy & Markus Reuters Outland on a Slow Flow Echoes.
Playlists
Friday, Mar 26, 2021 – Echoes Program 2112E
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Eric Hilton, one half of the brain trust of Thievery Corporation. His new album, Infinite Everywhere is a laid-back ambient lounge release.
Playlists
Thursday, Mar 25, 2021 – Echoes Program 2112D
Singer-songwriter Marya Stark has a celestial approach to lyrics. Last year she released the album, Sapphire, co-produced with Joshua Penman of the electronic project, Akara.