The 12th Icon of Echoes, Moby. For the last 35 years, he’s had a varied career from techno to downtempo and beyond. We look back and profile this fascinating, sometimes controversial artist.
Our 10th Icon, Enya, created a revolutionary but serene sound with her heavily layered vocals, sung in Gaelic, Elven, Latin and Loxion. She’s influenced everything from New Age to Dream Pop.
Enya is the 10th Icon of Echoes. Her voice descends from the heavens in multiple layers. We look across her 34 year solo career and pick her 5 best recordings out of 8 proper album releases.
The many moods of Thievery Corporation. We talk with Eric Hilton, who has two ambient lounge albums out, and his Thievery partner, Rob Garza about a music born in dub and music sampling.
The Norwegian singer Ane Brun has been one of the understated sirens of dream pop. She talks about the loss and loneliness that informs much of her latest recordings.
Echoes March CD of the Month is Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy’s latest pastoral opus, Ravenna. Inspired by Ravenna’s mosaics, they create musical mosaics, lacing keyboards, guitars and more.
The ambient chamber music of A Winged Victory for the Sullen, a collaboration between Dustin O’Halloran and Adam Wiltzie, explores darker terrain on Invisible Cities.
It’s the sound of the spirit when we talk with Shunia, the duo of Lisa Reagan and Suzanne Jackson. Then it’s Afro-futuristic jazz, world fusion and space music from the African Diaspora.
Wax Tailor’s new album, The Shadow of their Suns, slices and dices social injustice in the 21st century. It’s his most political album to date, still fueled by great beats and riotous vocal cut-ups.
Chick Corea was a jazz pianist, a fusion pioneer, a creator of joyful music and pyrotechnic flights from Miles Davis to Return to Forever and beyond. He left the planet on February 9th.