The German duo Grandbrothers, who play a grand piano hooked up with electronics and a machine for an orchestral sound. We tickle the ivories and program the drum machines of Grandbrothers.
Leandrul creates beautiful electro-pop music with deep psychological implications. Psychosis of Dreams is not a metaphor. It’s about real trauma with mental health and recovery.
NPR’s Bob Boilen is more than the host of Tiny Desk Concerts and All Songs Considered. He’s also a composer of music from ambient to punk rock. We talk about his pandemic album Hidden Smiles.
Echoes March CD of the Month is Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy’s latest pastoral opus, Ravenna. Then Thievery Corporation’s Eric Hilton & Rob Garza talk about a music born in dub and sampling.
We declare winter over with an Echoes Vernal Equinox Soundscape. We’ll hear music for the turning of the seasons and the cycle of celestial events to drive winter away.
If you caught Nils Frahm live in 2018 and 2019, you saw one of the most spectacular solo performances of the millennium. Now it’s been released as a live album, Tripping with Nils Frahm.
Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds talks about his new album, Some Kind of Peace. He pares down to a simpler sound for music of introspection. It’s a pandemic meditation.
Echoes Top 25 for February 2021. Time Traveler’s Sky Falter, February’s CD of the Month, is at the top, followed by Erik Wollo, Grandbrothers, Todd Boston, and 21 other great CDs.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music that’s not so slow by Martin Gore from Depeche Mode from his album, The Third Chimpanzee. We’ll also hear electronic music by S1gns of L1fe from the album, Cymatic.