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.
Playlists
Wednesday, Feb 17, 2021 – Echoes Program 2107C
Tag: electronic
Reviews & Commentary
Enya 10th Icon of Echoes: Five of Her Best Albums
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.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Mar 2, 2021 – Thievery Corporation Interview
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.
Playlists
Tuesday, Feb 16, 2021 – Echoes Program 2107B
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.
Coming Up
Monday, Mar 1, 2021 – Echoes CD of the Month: Ravenna
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.
Playlists
Monday, Feb 15, 2021 – Echoes Program 2107A
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.
Coming Up
Weekend, Feb 27-28, 2021 – Shunia & the African Diaspora
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.
Playlists
Weekend, Feb 13-14, 2021 – Programs 2106A & 2106B
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.
News
Chick Corea Gone at 79: A Reflection
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.
Coming Up
Friday, Feb 26, 2021 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we trek into the Utah wilds to hear the latest album of guitar and bass improvisations by Endless Field, Alive in the Wilderness. Also music by Jon Hassell.