Christmas is effectively over but we hang on to the spirit with music to help you settle in for that other “long winter’s nap,” the one that happens after the presents are opened, the food is eaten and the wine is drunk.
We travel from slow-core pastoral rock to ambient electronic music when we hear the latest by the Lancaster based band, The Innocence Mission and the English electronic pop group, Radium 88.
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Iconic Irish singer, Enya talks about her new album, Dark Sky Island. It’s her first album of all-new material in 7 years. Many of the familiar Enya sounds are there from the pizzacato strings, vocal choirs and of course, the pure beauty of Enya’s voice. She talks about castles, church and the cosmos.
The Irish singer Enya has created one of the most distinctive sounds of the last 30 years. She’s just released her first album in 7 years, Dark Sky Island and it is sure to thrill fans of her serene sound. Dark Sky Island is the Echoes December CD of the Month.
Emile is Emilie Kahn. Ogden is her harp. Together they create a chamber folk music with chiming strings and Kahn’s winsome, childlike voice that manages to find depth and authority.
On a Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear new music by Swedish guitarist Jimmy Wahlsteen.
Coming up on the next Echoes it’s new music from flute players, Sherry Finzer and Mark Holland who collaborate on an album called Flute Flight. We’ll also hear new music from Norway’s Erik Wøllo.
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
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.
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.