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.
Heather Woods Broderick is a singer-songwriter detailing a life of transience amidst a music that hovers in moody atmospheres and haunting choruses. Her album, Glider is the the Echoes CD of the Month for July.
It’s Slow Flow Friday on Echoes, an all instrumental soundscape to take you into the weekend.
It’s Slow Flow Friday on Echoes, an all instrumental soundscape to take you into the weekend.
On this Earth Day, we create a soundscape born from the planet, inspired by the riches of this earth that we seem so intent on destroying.
Innovative and influential guitarist Kaki King talks about her daring new project called The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body.
The Big Ears Festival in Knoxville brought together an array of musicians from the bleeding edge of the avant-garde to the cutting edge of rock and folk. Kronos Quartet presided over this meeting ground of Vanguard music that included Laurie Anderson, Wu Man, Terry Riley, Rhiannon Giddens and much much more.
Dry the River is a band from England that takes yearning songs and turns them into gorgeous harmonies surrounded by psychedelic tinged arrangements redolent of bands like Love.
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.
If it wasn’t for Martin Mull’s 1970s TV series, Fernwood T2 Night, the name Fernwood would more instantly conjure up pastoral images of a backwoods town from a time gone by. The band called Fernwood does that, only their backwoods could be in Bangalore, Senegal or in the Appalachian hills. It’s not that the music…