Ryan West records as Rival Consoles, a resolutely electronic project, but he still thinks of his chromium plated compositions as songs. He calls it “songwriting with an electronic palate.”
Coming Up
Monday, Dec 28, 2020 – Rival Consoles
Tag: New Age
Playlists
Monday, Dec 14, 2020 – Echoes Program 2050A
On this Day Echoes remembers. 2020 has been a tough year, and along the way, we lost many artists from the world of Echoes. In this special memorial show, we remember some whom we’ve lost.
Coming Up
Weekend, Dec 26-27, 2020 – Winter Solstice & 12 CDs of the Month
Bundle up for a Winter Solstice Soundscape of snow shrouded trees, silent saguaro cactus and white out conditions. We create a winter fantasy taking you into the chilled side of the season.
Playlists
Weekend, Dec 12-13, 2020 – Programs 2049A & 2049B
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. After that, an Echoes interview with Kevin Keller.
Coming Up
Friday, Dec 25, 2020 – An Echoes Christmas II
The presents are unwrapped, stomachs are stuffed, and everyone is drowsy. It’s time to chill with a Christmas Soundscape. It’s the sounds of the season sculpted in snow shrouded serenity.
Playlists
Friday, Dec 11, 2020 – Echoes Program 2049E
On a Slow Flow Echoes we go through Portals, a collection of electronic music sub-titled “A Kosmische Journey”, nodding to roots in 70s German Space music. We’ll also hear Liminal Drifter.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Dead Can Dance Icons & Harold Budd R.I.P.
Coming Up
Thursday, Dec 24, 2020 – An Echoes Christmas I
Get the sugar plums dancing with an Echoes Night Before Christmas. It’s not your shopping Mall Christmas carols with David Arkenstone’s Native Christmas, and Smoke Fairies Wild Winter.
Reviews & Commentary
5 Essential Harold Budd CDs.
Harold Budd passed away on December 7th at 84. Here are Five Essential Harold Budd albums from this avatar of ambient chamber music who defined a sound that was unrepentantly beautiful.
Playlists
Wednesday, Dec 9, 2020 – 30 Icons: Dead Can Dance
It’s the fourth Icon of Echoes, Dead Can Dance. This duo of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry have created some of the most transcendent, time-shifting music of the late 20th century.