Chuck Van Zyl is a veteran of the Philly electronic music scene and the host of WXPN’s Star’s End who creates his spacescapes live in the moment. Watch him do it in this fascinating video.
Day equals night. Winter is Melting. Spring is Blooming. Even if those last two aren’t true yet, Echoes has a soundscape to make you think so as we celebrate the Vernal Equinox.
Composer Nils Frahm creates a melodically layered and rhythmically driven live performance that’s a meeting of Tangerine Dream, minimalism and ambient moods at Union Transfer in Philadelphia.
Echoes turns emerald green for our annual St. Patrick’s exploration of all things Celtic. We’ll hear music by Enya, Moya Brennan, Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning, and more
We’ll hear new music by Steve Dinsdale from Radio Massacre International. It’s called Light & Dark and it’s an odyssey of electronic influences from Can to Cluster. We’ll also go Gothic, with several tracks inspired by the sounds from the Middle Ages. John Diliberto has it coming up on Echoes.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Porcupine Tree bassist Colin Edwin and Estonian guitarist Robert Jurjendal. They have a new album of improvisations called Another World.
Different dimensions in electronic music with Vitalic, the French EDM artist who has created dance floor hits and Robert Rich with a new organic trip called he Biode on Echoes
Sheila Chandra was one of the greatest voices of our generation. Her albums on Real World were signposts of global music in the 1990s. She can’t sing anymore, but her mind is still at work.
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Winterlight is the recording persona of Tim Ingham who takes electric guitar and turns it into ambient shoegaze dreamscapes. We talk to him about roots that start in punk in Echoes Podcast.
Echoes Top 25 for February includes CD of the Month by Poppy Ackroyd, the duo Overcoats, electronic artist Lane 8, Moby, a reissue from Ben Vaughn, Ian Boddy & Erik Wollo and Al Di Meola.