30 years ago, Loreena McKennitt released her breakthrough album, The Visit. We talk to this influential musician who turned Celtic music into world fusion while telling epic tales.
Playlists
Weekend, Oct 2-3, 2021 – Programs 2139A & 2139B
Tag: New Age
Coming Up
Friday, Oct 15, 2021 – Slow Flow Echoes
Two guitarists with expansive sounds: Carl Weingarten, from a new album of rustic chamber music, Ember Days, and Robert Jurjendal with a more ambient approach on Water Finds a Way.
Playlists
Friday, Oct 1, 2021 – Echoes Program 2139E
We hear some of the last music created by Harold Budd. The ambient artist passed last December, but he left his soundtrack to HBO’s I Know This Much Is True. We’ve got a track from that.
Coming Up
Thursday, Oct 14, 2021 – Will Ackerman, Jeff Oster, Tom Eaton
A new collaboration from guitarist Will Ackerman, trumpeter Jeff Oster, and keyboardist Tom Eaton. You might recognize them from their solo projects, the band FLOW and Windham Hill Records.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Loreena McKennitt
Playlists
Thursday, Sept 30, 2021 – Echoes Program 2139D
On a Slow Flow Echoes some fast guitar from Andy McKee, a leading light on the finger-style guitar scene. He has a new EP called Symbols. We’ll also ride the grooves of Byron Metcalf.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Oct 13, 2021 – Robot Koch Interview
German Composer Robot Koch has gone from death metal to deep ambient chamber music in his career. We follow the course of this inventive artist up through his latest offering.
Playlists
Wednesday, Sept 29, 2021 – Echoes Program 2139C
In honor of National Hispanic American Heritage Month, we’re going to the Latin side of Echoes. Not what you might expect: We’ll hear a different, more ambient part of the Latin aesthetic.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Oct 12, 2021 – Stephan Micus Interview
Before there was a genre called world music, Stephan Micus was taking instruments from around the globe and creating acoustic ambient soundscapes. We talk to Stephan Micus on Echoes.
Playlists
Tuesday, Sept 28, 2021 – Echoes Program 2139B
It’s the 50th Anniversary of the greatest unsung band of Progressive Rock, Jade Warrior. Launched in 1971, they created a quartet of the most brilliant world fusion albums.