We talk with Airport People: not weary airline travelers, but ambient chamber music artist Leon Todd Johnson. He has an album of creaky-piano-centered compositions called From Nine Mornings.
Playlists
Tuesday, Dec 6, 2022 – Echoes Program 2249B
Tag: electronic
Coming Up
Weekend, Dec 17-18, 2022 – The Best of 2022 & In Memoriam
Weekend listeners hear The Best of Echoes 2022 Top 20 and we remember those who left the Echoes galaxy this year with Echoes in Memoriam.
Playlists
Weekend, Dec 3-4, 2022 – Programs 2248A & 2248B
Christmas comes early with the December CD of the Month, Loreena McKennitt’s Under a Winter’s Moon. Loreena merges reading from A Child’s Christmas in Wales with songs from the season.
Coming Up
Friday, Dec 16, 2022 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro teams up with slide guitarist Sonny Landreth and we’ll hear some deep ambient guitar by Jonas Munk, who records as Manual.
Playlists
Friday, Dec 2, 2022 – Echoes Program 2248E
New music by Olafur Arnalds – kind of. The Icelandic composer has gathered a bevy of other musicians to reinterpret the songs from his album, Some Kind of Peace, on piano.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Sheila Chandra and Monsoon
Playlists
Thursday, Dec 1, 2022 – Echoes Program 2248D
We’ll hear a new collaboration between string player and electronic artist Rena Jones with electronic artist Kilo Watts and we’ll hear Jean-Michel Jarre remixed by Brian Eno.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Dec 14, 2022 – 12 CDs of the Month
Echoes doesn’t have 12 days of Christmas, but we do have 12 CD of the Month Picks. We’ll go through them, first forward and then backwards. 2022 was a great year for music on Echoes.
Playlists
Wednesday, Nov 30, 2022 – Echoes Program 2248C
American multi-instrumentalist David Vito Gregoli and Indian producer & keyboard player Ricky Kej discuss Wild Monsoon, a fusion of electronics and Indian music.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Dec 13, 2022 – Echoes in Memoriam
It was a tough year for Icons of Echoes as Klaus Schulze and Vangelis both left earth’s orbit and they were followed by Julee Cruise, Low Roar and too many more. Echoes remembers.