Singer and composer Agnes Obel creates a sound that is both introspective, incandescent and wholly personal. She is the 25th Icon of Echoes and we’ll bring you a sound portrait of this artist.
Pat Metheny talks about his latest release, one on which he barely plays guitar. It’s called Road to the Sun and features the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and Jason Vieaux.
Get ready for an Echoes Summer Solstice. We let the sunshine in as we orchestrate your soundscape for the longest day of the year with music from Jake Shimabukuro, George Winston, and more.
Emancipator, Rena Jones, & Flowerpulse weave their electronic roots into the ambient excursion of Xylem, their debut album. John Diliberto goes to the garden with 3 electronic explorers.
The June CD of the Month, Eight Fragments of an Illusion by Ulrich Schnauss and Jonas Munk. Schnauss is a member of Tangerine Dream. Munk records shoegaze influenced electronics as Manual.
Paul McCartney has reinvented his third solo album with new versions of the songs, featuring a different guest artist on almost every track. We’ll hear Phoebe Bridgers from McCartney III Imagined.
Deep ambient chamber music by Joshua Van Tassell whose album title says it all, Dance Music Volume II: More Songs for Slow Motion. We’ll also hear from German downtempo artist, Tauon.
Kitaro is a giant in modern music for his exotic electronic works bridging traditional and future sounds. Hiroki Okano merges nature and music together. They play live in new video.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, drift on the currents of Erik Wøllo’s North Star, his latest missive of guitar moods from Norway. We’ll also hear from Chris Liebing off his album Another Day.
Lisa Gerrard returns in full force. She was barely on the last Dead Can Dance album, but her ecstatic sound is all over a new collaboration called Burn. We’ll also hear from All India Radio.