Big Ears Festival 2019 brings another slate of diverse and adventurous music to their 2019 event. Read about the final lineup which includes Nils Frahm, Harold Budd and Spiritualized.
Bassist Erik Scott played psychedelic music, performed with Alice Cooper and Flo and Eddie and has survived cancer. So what does he do at the age of 70? Make beautiful melancholy musc.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, ambient chamber music by pianist Lena Natalia from Lonely Satellite. We’ll also hear new electronic music out of Germany by Thomas Lemmer and Christoph Sebastien Pabst.
New music by Indarra, an entrancing band with a supernatural Basque name centered on the declamatory vocals of Sue Hutton. We’ll also hear the latest by the chant trio White Sun on Echoes.
Ed Harris was raised on heavy metal but went ambient. As Edamame he uses field recordings made on his phone, sampling birds and outside chatter and turning it into percussion and melody.
The Echoes Top 25 for October 2018 features David Arkenstone’s CD of the Month “Colors of the Ambient Sky” at the top, followed by Dead Can Dance, William Fitzsimmons and Talitha Rise.
Music from singer Neko Case who recently released a harder edged album called “Hell-On.” We’ll also hear music by Warren Harrison, the electronic half of the duo, Hungry Lucy.
Beacon is the R&B-inflected dreampop project who create electronically driven mood pieces. They’ve just released their album, Gravity Pairs and an ominous video for the song “On Ice”.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
Jan Hammer was keyboardist from Mahavishnu Orchestra and creator of the famed Miami Vice TV score. Join us as the 70 year old Hammer casts back on his career and new music in Echoes Podcast.
On the next Echoes, a musician who works as ELEON. He’s creating a very melodic electronic music and is helped out by guitarist David Helpling. We’ll hear music off his album.