The Big Ears Festival 2023 took place this past weekend 3/30-4/2 and it lived up to its reputation with nearly 200 performances that stretched music concepts.
Reviews & Commentary
Big Ears Festival 2023 Review
Tag: New Age
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 March: Steve Roach at the Top
Steve Roach’s Rest of Life tops the Echoes Top 25 for March, followed by Bill Nelson, Wax Tailor, Surface 10, Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen, Hammock and 19 more great artists.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Apr 18, 2023 – Enchantment of Lucinda Chua
The enchantment of Lucinda Chua. The British singer and cellist has just released a masterful, perfectly-pitched album called Yian. It translates as swallow. Lucinda Chua flies on Echoes.
Playlists
Tuesday, Apr 4, 2023 – Echoes Program 2314B
The ambient guitar duo Hammock talk about their latest post-pandemic album, Love in the Void. They talk about the emotions that fueled one of their most energized albums in years.
Coming Up
Weekend, Apr 15-16, 2023 – Vic Hennegan Plays Live
Vic Hennegan heads into space. The ambient electronic composer comes to Echoes to perform a live electronic set with no computers, just synthesizers, to create a drifting soundscape.
Playlists
Weekend, Apr 1-2, 2023 – Programs 2313A & 2313B
A yogi plays his guitar on Echoes when we hear Michael Hewett. He comes in, plugs his acoustic guitar into an array of effects boxes and loopers and performs music from his Blue Avian EP.
Playlists
Friday, Mar 31, 2023 – Echoes Program 2313E
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Bill Nelson. The renowned English guitarist and founder of Be-Bop Deluxe is pouring out new solo albums and we’ll hear from a new one, Theatre of Falling Leaves.
Interview Podcast
Podcast: Vangelis 1982 Interview Complete
Coming Up
Wednesday, Apr 12, 2023 – Music from Thaneco and Sine
It’s a trip to the red planet when we hear new music by Thaneco from his album, Structures from Mars. It’s an album of deep Berlin school sequencers. We’ll also hear something from Sine.
Playlists
Wednesday, Mar 29, 2023 – Echoes Program 2313C
It’s 88 Keys on Stun when Echoes celebrates Piano Day 2023. Piano Day was created by Nils Frahm in 2015 and we dive deep on an all piano-led show that will include Frahm and many more.