Get your wish list out for Christmas. It’s the Best of Echoes 2021. In a tumultuous year, John Diliberto finds the 30 albums that will bring you peace, joy and adventure.
The Holidays are coming and we have your soundtrack with a new collection called Winter Tales, the Echoes December CD of the Month. Enjoy new works for the season from artists you already love.
We visit the Electronic Music Education and Preservation Project, EMEAPP. It’s a museum of electronic instruments from the earliest devices through Keith Emerson’s keyboard rig and beyond.
It’s a Whole Lotta Love for Led Zeppelin when we talk with Bob Spitz, author of Led Zeppelin: The Biography. He takes us from poverty to Kashmir, drugs to death and heavy metal to heaven.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we go Into The Majestic with Steve Roach, which taps his more celestial electronic side. We’ll also hear music from Grandbrothers and their album of enhanced piano.
Two generations of German electronic musicians team up when Lambert Ringlage works with a former member of Tangerine Dream, Johannes Schmoelling. We’ll also hear some instrumental Peter Frampton.
New music by Beach House. The dream-pop duo takes a more intimate, acoustic approach on their new album, Once Twice Melody. We’ll also hear Police guitarist Andy Summers.
The ambient jazz trio Twilight Archive traverses a swampy landscape on a new album called Recent Detours. We’ll also hear from William Tyler and Marisa Anderson’s Lost Futures.
New music by Yaima. This enchanting new age dream-pop duo have released the second volume of their Earth Trilogy series. We’ll also hear something from the Icelandic trio, Stereo Hypnosis.
We visit the Electronic Music Education and Preservation Project, EMEAPP. It’s a museum of electronic instruments from the earliest devices through Keith Emerson’s keyboard rig and beyond.