Simon Posford of Shpongle has a new album of ambient moods, Flux & Contemplation, and Tom Holkenborg, a.k.a. Junkie XL, has a new soundtrack for White Lines. Go outside the lines on Echoes.
New music from Lana Del Rey’s dreamy album of dark truths called Chem Trails Over the Country Club. We’ll also hear a new collaboration between Ian Boddy & Markus Reuter called Outland.
A giant of acoustic guitar, the 18th Icon of Echoes is the late Michael Hedges. He revolutionized the acoustic guitar with his virtuoso two-handed approach and idiosyncratic compositions.
We get Desensitized. That’s the name chosen for the collaboration between melodic electronic artist Deborah Martin and experimental electronic artist Dean De Benedictus.
The electronic pop band, Decouplr, tackles themes of pandemic and isolation. The Philadelphia duo have released their 80s inspired album of electro-pop called Digital Bonfire.
The April CD of the Month, Ember Days, is an album of intricate and pastoral excursions by Carl Weingarten. He weaves multiple guitars and pedal steel into the sound of country meets heaven.
Carl Weingarten weaves a chamber Americana sound with multiple guitars that take you from country twang to psychedelic free-falls to pastoral bliss. It’s Echoes April CD of the Month.
The keyboardist for the Danish Al-rock band, Kashmir, takes the neo-classical, solo piano route on a trilogy of recordings. We go inside the creaky piano sound of Henrik Lindstrand.
Ambient chamber composer Kevin Keller goes spiritual when heart surgery stops his heart from beating. He contemplates that experience on his album, The Front Porch of Heaven.