Santa’s here and his bag is full of sonic seasonings for an Echoes Christmas. Traditional carols are reinvented and new carols emerge. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
It has been a great year for new music and we’ll pick out our Top 30 best albums of 2023 on Echoes. You might want to see who is number one, but you will love who is 30.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Delay Tactics, a progressive rock band from the 1980s that recently reformed with original members Carl Weingarten, David Udel, and Walter Whitney.
We hear electronic sounds from Brazil when we talk to Anna. She’s creating ambient music after a career in thumping techno. But her album Intentions revels in serene melodic cycles.
Chamber music sounds inspired by National Parks from oboist and pianist, Jill Haley. It’s from her album called The Forests and Shores of Acadia. It’s in the current of a Slow Flow Echoes.
Outkast’s Andre 3000 goes ambient and new age. We’ll hear music from the rapper’s solo debut album, New Blue Sun which is all instrumental and features no real beats and lots of flute.
New music from the husband-and-wife electronica duo Pink Sky. They have a synth-infused dreampop sound on their recent album, Disenchantment. We’ll also hear music from Robert Schroeder.
On an Echoes In Memoriam, we remember. Many musicians who lit up the Echoes sky left us this year. Among them are Jeff Beck, George Winston, Ralph Lundsten and Simon Emmerson.
Lis Addison is a musician, singer, dancer and electronic artist. She’s been making music from chant to meditation and she has a new album inspired by her work in Kenya called Songs From The Mara.