Amon Tobin, early pioneer of jazz driven electronic music, has returned after a four-year hiatus with new music under pseudonyms, including psychedelic persona Figueroa, where he even sings.
Playlists
Tuesday, Jan 5, 2021 – Echoes Program 2101B
Tag: New Age
Reviews & Commentary
Jean-Michel Jarre’s Virtual Notre Dame Cathedral
Jean-Michel Jarre creates a virtual Notre Dame Cathedral with the stage as the altar and his synthesizer cockpit the pulpit. John Diliberto goes to church and experiences electronic heaven.
Coming Up
Monday, Jan 18, 2021 – Digitonal Interview
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.
Playlists
Monday, Jan 4, 2021 – Echoes Program 2101A
Today is Tomorrow as we start 2021 with our January CD of the Month, Steve Roach’s Tomorrow. Roach takes us into sequencer symmetry on his latest album of deep, analog exploration.
Coming Up
Weekend, Jan 16-17, 2021 – Marya Stark & David Darling
We talk to singer-songwriter Marya Stark about her celestial approach to lyrics and her new album, Saphhire. Then we remember cellist David Darling, who left the planet on January 8th.
Playlists
Weekend, Jan 2-3, 2021 – Programs 2052A & 2052B
Ryan West is Rival Consoles, a resolutely electronic project, but still thinks of his chromium plated compositions as songs. Michael Rother is a legend of progressive rock and electronic music.
CD of the Month
Echoes January 2021 CDoM: Steve Roach – Tomorrow
Steve Roach is an Icon of Echoes. His 2020 release Tomorrow is the Echoes CD of the Month. Hear this analog modular sequencer dervish from the master of that sound.
Playlists
Friday, Jan 1, 2021 – Echoes Program 2052E
Echoes has gone through the hundreds of recordings that we’ve played and picked out the Top 30 albums for 2020, a horrible year in life, but a great year in music. We count-down the top 20.
Coming Up
Thursday, Jan 14, 2021 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Loga Ramin Torkian, one half of the Persian fusion group, Niyaz. He has a new solo album out of micro-tonal guitar and cello called Brink of Absolute.
Playlists
Thursday, Dec 31, 2020 – Echoes Program 2052D
Stomp on 2020 and blow it out of your mind when we dance in 2021 with Downtempo New Year’s Eve Soundscape. The chill is turned up to 11 as we swing in on electronic sounds.