It’s a new generation of German electronic artists when we talk to Thomas Lemmer and Sebastian Pabst. They’ve been churning out downtempo dreams and electro-lounge moods at a prolific pace.
Harold Budd 1936-2020t: Rest in BeautyAmbient composer and pianist Harold Budd has left the planet, Departing on December 7th, 2020 at the age of 84. And he hated being called an ambient composer as much as being called a New Age one. Harold Budd was on Echoes about a dozen times, playing live at least…
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.
Echoes doesn’t have 12 days of Christmas, but we do have twelve months of Echoes CD of the Month Picks. We’ll go through them, first forward from January and then backwards.
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.
The Best of Echoes 2020. We pick out our 30 Favorite albums of the year covering the range of the Echoes Soundscape. This is a Best of list like no other. 2020 Sucked! This list doesn’t.
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.
Echoes remembers. 2020 has been a tough year and along the way, we lost many artists from the world of Echoes. We lament their loss and celebrate their music on Echoes In Memoriam.
It’s a time of giving so the Echoes CD of the Month is actually 2 CDs. Ane Brun’s After The Great Storm and How Beauty Holds the Hand of Sorrow are perfect albums for this time of reflection.
We’ll hear the latest recording by French guitarist Pierre Bensusan. He came up during the days of Windham Hill guitarists like Michael Hedges, who named a song after him. His latest album is Azwan.