Moodswings Maven Trades Synthesizers for the Hang One of my favorite albums of the 21st century remains the CD Horizontal by Moodswings. It was a perfect CD of ambient expanses, melodically tuned and atmospherically vast. The man behind that album was James Hood. After a lifetime in music, including playing drums with The Pretenders, he…
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Program Highlights
Psychedelic to Serenity: Mike Wall Echoes Interview
We get a lot of music in here with titles like “Music for Massage,” “Music for Yoga,” “Music for Meditation.” They almost never make it onto the show, but every now and then we get one that has a little bit more going for it, than pretty sounds and contemplative moods. That’s the case with…
Interview Podcast
Shaman’s Dream Interview Podcast from Echoes
Hear Shaman’s Dream Interviewed in Echoes Podcast Craig Kohland and Evan Bartholomew, best known as Bluetech, come from different worlds. Kohland began in the New Age Scene, playing percussion with his group, Shaman’s Dream and creating trance global grooves. Bluetech began in the techno and electronic world settling in a career that oscillates between seductive…
Reviews & Commentary
55th Grammy Awards-Return of Pure New Age.
New Age Music reasserts its hold on the Grammy’s New Age Category. I won’t be able to get my chakras in an uproar about the absurdity of the New Age Grammy category this year. (See previous rants & reflections Grammys Goof Again in the New Age) There aren’t any hack New Agers that no one…
CD of the Month
Eastern Moods for Echoes October CD of the Month
You can trace many movements in modern music back to The Beatles, and they are at the roots of Hans Christian and Harry Manx. Not The Beatles of “She Loves You,” but the eastern-influenced Beatles of “Tomorrow Never Knows” and especially “Within You Without You.” Musicians like the German-born Christian and English-born Manx were inspired…