Pianist George Winston, the 30th Icon, came into the Echoes Living Room in 1999, and performed tunes from his latest album at the time, Plains, his classic December and more.
Sitarist Anoushka Shankar is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, but she’s going even further afield than her father. We’ll hear a track from Love Letters PS with her sister, Norah Jones.
George Winston is the 30th Icon for 30 years of Echoes. We’ll survey the music world of this pianist who brought contemporary instrumental music to popularity in the 1980s.
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.
German Composer Robot Koch has gone from death metal to deep ambient chamber music in his career. And Sphongle began in hallunciation and makes hallucinations. Their stories on Echoes.
The perfect CD for the Month for July, Lanterna’s Hidden Drives. Lanterna cranks up the country twang, digital delays and atmospheres for an album of open-spaced Ambient Americana.
Electronic artist Ian Boddy’s new album, Axiom features a classic retro-space music sound. We’ll also hear ambient piano by Jon Durant and ambient chamber music by Digitonal.
Norwegian guitar legend Terje Rypdal returns to the form of his 70s classic albums on a new one called Conspiracy. We’ll also hear from ambient chamber music group Digitonal.
The sultry sound of Morcheeba with music from their album, Blackest Blue and new ambient chamber music by South American composer Sebastian Plano from his album, Save Me Not.