Mark Dwane has an album called Future Tense that features his guitar actually sounding like a guitar sometimes. We’ll also hear from the collection Imaginational Anthems Volume 10, Overseas Edition.
Echoes Top 25 for March 2021. Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy’s Ravenna, the March CD of the Month, is at the top, followed by, Leandrul, Mint Julep, I Think Like Midnight, and 21 other great CDs.
It’s a Slow Flow with new music by Lisa Bella Donna from The World She Wanted, Native flutes and Peruvian pan-pipes from Pamela Whitman & Cesar Villalobos, and the chill of Gold Lounge.
We’ll hear the band AO Music’s African-inspired sound featuring singer Miriam Stockley, and we’ll hear a Bulgarian group called Trigaida, that mixes traditional Bulgarian singing and EDM.
SUSS is the tripped-out band that merges country, ambient, and psychedelic music and their side project, Numuen. Are they ambient Americana or psychedelic country. We suss it out.
We flip the switch on Jean-Michel Jarre, the 17th Icon of Echoes. He brought electronic music to global popularity with his 1977 album, Oxygene, bringing the space music sound to new audiences.
The 15th Icon, Ludovico Einaudi, has supercharged classical music with his driving rhythms, ambient textures and melodic themes. We look back on his work over the last three decades.
Digitonal’s Set the Weather Fair was one of Echoes’ Top five Albums of 2020. Andy Dobson and Dom Graveson talk about their merging of classical moods and electronic ambiences and grooves.
Malcolm Cecil was an electronic pioneer whose duo, Tonto’s Expanding Head Band, planted the seeds of contemporary electornic music with the album Zero Time in 1971. He leaves at age 84.