The Echoes Top 25 for February 2020 features Hans Christian’s After the Fall, Jake Shimabukuro, Tigerforest, Agnes Obel, and 21 other CDs. See if your favorites made the list.
Best Of
Echoes February 2020 Top 25: Hans Christian on Top
Tag: guitar
Coming Up
Friday, Mar 13, 2020 – Slow Flow Echoes
New music by Seamus Egan, the virtuoso multi-instrumentalist who has fronted the Celtic band Solas for decades and cellist Hans Christian goes darkly into ambient chamber music.
Reviews & Commentary
David Helpling Video for Glass from His Album, Rune.
David Helpling heads into space for a video of “Glass” from his January Echoes CD of the Month, Rune. Images of Hlping playing space guitar are superimposed on the Aurora Borealis.
Program Highlights
Phoebe Bridgers Bangs a Bong in “Garden Song” Video
Phoebe Bridgers is a singer-songwriter who takes a dreamier approach to her music and after seeing her video for “Garden Song,” you’ll know why as she takes us into a dorm room hallucination.
Playlists
Wednesday, Feb 26, 2020 – Echoes Program 2008C
Oboist and composer Jill Haley takes up residence and composes music inspired by the landscapes and her photographs. Join John Diliberto on a walk through the parks on Echoes.
Playlists
Tuesday, Feb 25, 2020 – Echoes Program 2008B
Hawaiian ukulele lion Jake Shimabukuro comes in with his trio to lay down the dreamy ambient textured music of his new album, including a cover of a Pink Floyd classic.
Coming Up
Monday, Mar 9, 2020 – CGT & MG3 Live on Echoes
It’s the 36 strings of The California Guitar Trio and the Montréal Guitare Trio. These two virtuoso groups get together to play music from their 2019 CD of the Month, In a Landscape, live.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Mar 4, 2020 – Voxfire & Ralph Towner 80th
Voxfire takes Medieval chants and turns them into free-floating expanses with beautiful vocals. They infuse their chants with ambient moods and even blues harmonica.
Playlists
Wednesday, Feb 19, 2020 – Echoes Program 2007C
New music by Jake Shimabukuro, the Hawaiian Ukulele master. He has a new trio including ambient guitarist Dave Preston and they go off into dreamier spaces that you usually hear the uke in.
Coming Up
Weekend, Feb 29 – Mar 1, 2020 – Lane 8 & Jake Shimabukuro
We talk to Lane 8, the electronic artist bans sll cameras at his concerts and calls his sound “dreamy back-rub house music.” We’ll also hear the ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro playing live.