Ryan West is Rival Consoles, a resolutely electronic project, but still thinks of his chromium plated compositions as songs. Michael Rother is a legend of progressive rock and electronic music.
Steve Roach is an Icon of Echoes. His 2020 release Tomorrow is the Echoes CD of the Month. Hear this analog modular sequencer dervish from the master of that sound.
Sufjan Stevens goes all electronic on an album of life ruminations called The Ascension, maybe his most darkly melodic album ever. Also going deep but more acoustic is Ane Brun.
Echoes has gone through the hundreds of recordings that we’ve played and picked out the Top 30 albums for 2020, a horrible year in life, but a great year in music. We count-down the top 20.
Stomp on 2020 and blow it out of your mind when we dance in 2021 with Downtempo New Year’s Eve Soundscape. The chill is turned up to 11 as we swing in on electronic sounds.
SUSS is the tripped-out band that merges country, ambient, and psychedelic music and their side project, Numuen. Are they ambient Americana or psychedelic country. We suss it out.
We remember David Darling, the cellist and pioneer of Ambient Chamber music. He plucked his last note on January 8, 2021. He was a pioneer of ambient chamber music.
Michael Rother, legendary guitarist of German progressive music, has played with Kraftwerk, Neu, and Harmonia. We talk to Rother about his new album, his first in 16 years called Dreaming.
Singer-songwriter Marya Stark has a more celestial approach to lyrics. Last year she released the album, Sapphire, co-produced with Joshua Penman of the electronic project, Akara.
Ryan West records as Rival Consoles, a resolutely electronic project, but he still thinks of his chromium plated compositions as songs. He calls it “songwriting with an electronic palate.”