Walk through a turbulent world with Black Halo by Hybrid, the CD of the Month. EDM, ambient and dream pop merge into music with a cinematic sensibility & the soulful voice of Charlotte Truman.
Echoes Top 25 for July 2021. Lanterna’s Hidden Drives, the July CD of the Month, is at the top, followed by Morcheeba, Winterlight, Bill Nelson, and 21 other great CDs.
Hybrid has created an album for a pandemic world. “Black Halo” is part dystopian nightmare and part a hope for humanity. They tap EDM energies and soulful songwriting in a plea for the world.
We dream. Echoes takes us on an odyssey of dreams from surreal fantasies to images of love and memories of psychosis. But don’t worry. It’s only a dream on Echoes.
Jomoro is the project of electronic and acoustic percussionists Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco, with guest artists including Sharon Van Etten and Lucious. We talk to Jomoro on Echoes.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we’ll hear music by electronic artist Craig Padilla and guitarist Marvin Allen. Their album Strange Gravity taps into a retro-space music sound.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Loga Ramin Torkian, one half of the Persian fusion group, Niyaz. He has a new solo album out of micro-tonal guitar and cello called Brink of Absolute.
Idiosyncratic folk-rocker Sufjan Stevens has a five volume set of deeply ambient compositions called Convocations. It’s partly a response to deaths in the family and the pandemic.
Billie Eilish’s latest album, Happier Than Ever, defies pop standards by being low-key, sonically sparse and pillow-talki intimate. We’ll hear a track from that, as well as new music by Erik Wøllo