This year’s unlikely New Age Grammy winners were the trio White Sun, a group that takes Hindi mantras and turns them into soaring vocal melodies. The group is fronted by singer, Gurujas, who writes the melodies that have propelled this group to the New Age forefront.
On the next Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear music from the soundtrack of The Rise of the Synths and a new album from Thorsten Quaschning and Ulrich Schnauss called Synthwaves.
New music by Miranda Lee Richards called Existential Beast. Her last album was Echoes CD of the Year in 2016. We’ll hear new music by Falling You, a dream pop band, from Shine.
Violinist Christopher Tignor comes in with his electronic rig, a bass drum and chines and orchestrates a one-man ambient chamber music performance live on Echoes.
Lewis Scaife grew up on Hip-Hop, but when he started recording as Nym, he found a gentler, more trippy and surreal sound, mixing environmental samples and his own electronic sounds.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, electronic composer Richard Bone from his Age of Falconry. And Bluetech returns with The 4 Horsemen of the Electrocalypse-The Black Horse.
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In the Echoes Podcast we go into a musical marriage counselling session with Daron and Jenny Hollowell. They are Nights and weekends and they have a new album called Music for Marriage. As you’ll hear in this interview, it’s not music for setting the mood.
Arcade Fire have gone disco, but Echoes hasn’t. On the next show we pull a deep non-dance track from Arcade Fire’s new album, Everything Now. We’ll also hear music from the dark dream pop group, HDLSS whose new album is “Selecttions from DUMB”.
One of the most distinctive guitarists of the last 50 years has been Terje Rypdal. He’s legendary in jazz and fusion circles for his many albums on ECM records since his 1971 debut.
Solar eclipses have inspired a lot of music over the years. With the upcoming solar eclipse on August 21, Echoes brings us five albums that will create the cinematic soundscape for this solar event.