If you can’t wait for summer, Echoes has a record for you: Ludovico Einaudi’s The Summer Portraits. The Italian composer and pianist sculpts delicate chamber music breezes.
No one can embrace all of the Big Ears Festival but we have a rundown of the 2025 edition which drew much of its music from the Echoesphere. John Diliberto takes us into a music utopia.
Music by The Silk Road Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens. They’ve taken a more Americana turn since Giddens took the reins from founder Yo-Yo Ma, but they still have that global aesthetic.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Robot Koch. This musician who has been on the edges of electronica and EDM for years goes full new age on an album of drifting moods called Allow.
New music by guitarist Carl Weingarten. He’s been recording various angles of progressive music for decades, specializing in slide guitar. He has a new album of pastoral moods.
MAPS is the recording persona of James Chapman. Best known for dream pop releases, his last two albums, Counter Melody and Counter Continuo have been pure joyous, electronic bliss.
If you can’t wait for summer, Echoes has a record for you: Ludovico Einaudi’s The Summer Portraits. The Italian composer and pianist sculpts delicate chamber music breezes.
It’s a meeting of electronic generations with Ian Boddy and Harald Grosskopf. They’ve created an album called Doppelganger that looks back at the golden age of Krautrock.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Haushka. The German pianist likes to insert strange objects on the strings of his piano, in the tradition of John Cage. His latest album is Philanthropy.