Hammock have forged a distinctive sound for the 21st century, merging ambient guitars with string orchestrations Their album, Universalis is the Echoes CD of the Month for December.
The Echoes Top 25 for November 2018 features the Dead Can Dance CD of the Month “Dionysus” at the top, followed by White Sun, Lena Natalia, Mark Dwane, William Fitzsimmons and 20 more.
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by Solar Fields. The Swedish electronic artist aka Magnus Birgessontakes his downtempo sound in a more cinematic direction on “Ourdom.”
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In the Echoes Podcast, Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry talks about their conceptual album, Dionysus, a wedding of Greek mythology, tribal culture and global ritual sounds.
Olivia Chaney is an English singer who is expanding the sound of folk music. We’ll hear live versions of songs from her latest solo album, Shelter.
Laraaji is an icon of ambient and new age music. He was in Brian Eno’s Ambient music series and continues to make music, with his partner, Arji. We talk to Laraaji and Arji on Echoes.
We step into the Cosmic Chill Lounge. That’s a series of ambient electronic compilations from the German Sine Music label. They’ve recently released volume 8 in this series.
American primitive guitar goes east when Buck Curran plays live. Formerly one-half of the psychedelic pop duo, Arborea, Curran goes more rustic, but still trippy when he plays live on Echoes.
2016’s New Age Grammy winner was White Sun, a group that turns Hindi mantras into soaring vocal melodies. The group’s singer, Gurujas, writes the melodies that have propelled them to the New Age forefront.
The Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society is less of a fan club and more of an electronic, deep ambient duo with Garry Hughes of Bombay Dub Orchestra and Harvey Jones.