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Kenji Williams makes a different kind of “World Music” with Bella Gaia, a view of the world and its music, seen from space. Bella Gaia is a project put together by Williams, using NASA images of Earth from Space, quotes from astronauts and and music from around the world
The Echoes Top 25 for January includes the CD of the Month by Contact, as well as last month’s pick, Enya, along with new releases by Tuxedomoon, Ane Brun and Tranceology.
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You don’t usually find academic composers making music that you might find on a dance floor or in a chillout room, but J. Anthony Allen breaks that convention.
On the next Echoes it’s new music by Swedish singer Ane Brun. She’s backed up Peter Gabriel and is an icon on the Swedish scene.
Coming up on Echoes it’s new music by French electronica artist St Germain. He has a new CD mixing world music and downtempo grooves. We’ll also hear from Computer Magic.
Forty years ago, Brian Eno released the seminal ambient work, Discreet Music. Now the Canadian group Contact has arranged this piece for nine instrumentalists.
An all-instrumental Slow Flow Echoes includes music from electronic artist Raygun Ballet, New Age duo Anima and a surprisingly ambient soundtrack by film composer Danny Elfman for the movie The End of the Tour.
Forty years ago, Brian Eno released the seminal ambient work, Discreet Music. Now the Canadian group Contact has arranged this piece for nine instrumentalists.
Twilight Archive is a trio of musicians from Southern California exploring an ambient jazz sound.
The English duo Anima is a band steeped in shamanic mysticism, psychedelic plants and electronic music. The duo of Ali Calderwood and Daniela Broder live on a farm off the grid in Scotland, making electronic music powered by solar cells. They’ve lived in the jungles of Indian tribes in the Amazon and partaken in their rituals which they turn into some of the most detailed electronic landscapes.