Tag: folk

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015-Echoes Program 1538C

Autumn Equinox

Echoes celebrates the arrival of fall with a soundscape of autumnal moods and melancholy ambiences. These shows tend to take on a more pastoral acoustic tone and there will be plenty of that, but also some electronic tone poems and ambient excursions. Turn your fall foliage into a lightshow with an Echoes Autumnal Equinoxe

Weekend, September 19 & 20, 2015-Echoes Program 1537A

It’s not all country pickin’ in Nashville. Michael Spriggs is an A-list session guitarist in Music City who has played on, and written, dozens of country hits. But when he goes home, he plugs in to a different sound, turning country into Ambient Americana with touches of Celtic music.

Monday, September 14th, 2015-Echoes Program 1537A

It’s not all country pickin’ in Nashville. Michael Spriggs is an A-list session guitarist in Music City who has played on, and written, dozens of country hits. But when he goes home, he plugs in to a different sound, turning country into Ambient Americana with touches of Celtic music.

Wordless Echoes: The Tao of Steve

In the movie The Tao of Steve, a character develops a philosophy of “being Steve.” We noticed that there’s a whole lot of Echoes music made by Steves. Here’s a five-hour uninterrupted instrumental soundscape exploring music made by Steves, Stevens, Stephens, Stephans, Stephanies, even a Stevin.

Jesse Cook’s One World Echoes August CD of the Month.

Nouveau Flamenco guitarist Jesse Cook came to renown with his debut album, Tempest, in 1995. At the time he road in on the coattails of Nouveau Flamenco pioneer Ottmar Liebert and bands like The Gipsy Kings, but Cook always had his own sound, one that that morphed and fused over the course of two decades and several albums. He’s taken his flamenco influenced guitar playing into new settings with every album. On One World he goes global and electronica in a studio infused album of journeys from the serene to the ecstatic. One world is the Echoes CD of the Month for August.

Thursday, July 9th, 2015-Echoes Program 1527D

Darin Mahoney started out as a cowboy roping cattle and riding broncos in rodeos. A near death experience with cancer and an encounter with guitarist Will Ackerman’s music changed his life. Now he creates dreamy guitar music as a solo artist and in a duo with flutist Sherry Finzer.

Ambient Americana Landscapes

It’s a different sound of America for Independence Day weekend. It’s a sound steeped in the landscapes of the US from the Grand Canyon to the forests of Maine, all steeped in the sound of Ambient Americana, that unique sound merging country twang and ambient atmospheres. This soundscape for July 4th is one of twangquility, only at Echoes On-Line.