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.”
Coming Up
Monday, Dec 28, 2020 – Rival Consoles
Tag: downtempo
Coming Up
Wednesday, Dec 23, 2020 – Thomas Lemmer and Sebastian Pabst
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.
Best Of
Best of Echoes 2020-The Top 30 Albums of the Year
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.
Coming Up
Friday, Dec 18, 2020 – Slow Flow Echoes
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.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Ane Brun & Steve Roach
Best Of
Echoes November 2020 Top 25: Digitonal at the Top
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.
CD of the Month
December, 2020 Echoes CD of the Month: Ane Brun
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.
Coming Up
Weekend, Dec 12-13, 2020 – Best of Echoes & Kevin Keller
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.
Playlists
Friday, Nov 27, 2020 – Echoes Program 2047E
New music by Drogtech, a Polish musician creating ambient soundscapes on his new album, Fractured. We’ll also hear from Karavan Sarai, the world fusion electronic project.
Coming Up
Monday, Dec 7, 2020 – The Best of Echoes 2020
The Best of Echoes 2020. Echoes has gone through the hundreds of recordings that we’ve played and picked out the Top 30 albums for 2020, a horrible year in life, but a great year in music.