by John Diliberto 2/28/2925 I suspect that when they were at their recording peak, German bands like Neu!, Cluster, Harmonia and Can did not think that their music would still be influencing bands 50 years later. But their combinations of improvisation, motoric rhythms and stratospheric melodies are still charging the music of groups like Stereolab,…
Late Day Summer Breeze by Dieter Spears tops the Echoes February 2025 list, followed by a collaboration between Immersion and SUSS, Ludovico Einaudi, Mogwai, C37, and 20 other great CDs.
New music from Bill Nelson in what seems to be an endless stream of new music. This one is called Studio Cadet and echoes the early 60s guitar band sound of The Ventures and The Shadows.
We have music from Dino Pacifici and Brannan Lane. Their new album is a slow dive into ethno-ambient soundscapes called Imaginary Horizons. We always bring you music of imagination.
New music by Delrei. They are a guitar centric Italian group steeped in the sound of Spaghetti Westerns and Twin Peaks. We hit the trail to hear their twang from a new live album.
New Zealand musician David Parsons was one of the early artists out of the gate of New Age music and turned towards an electronic world fusion recording two dozen albums.
It’s Ambiences in Black when we turn the Echoes prism onto the African and black influences in ambient music. They come from many sources, jazz, R&B, Hip-hop and Africa itself.
We talk to Immersion and SUSS. These are two artists who you hear a lot on Echoes that have recently converged for a brilliant new album that is a true meeting of differing musical cultures.
New music by Wouter Kellerman, Eru Matsumoto and Chandrika Tandon. This trio of flutes, cello and voice create a world fusion meditation called Triveni. We travel its paths.
