Dead Can Dance has released a challenging album for longtime DCD fans, “Dionysus”. It’s a conceptual album of ritualistic music that draws on Middle Eastern modalities for an ecstatic state.
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Jan Hammer was keyboardist from Mahavishnu Orchestra and creator of the famed Miami Vice TV score. Join us as the 70 year old Hammer casts back on his career and new music in Echoes Podcast.
Flutist Suzanne Teng and percussionist Gilbert Levy talk about their world fusion band, Mystic Journey, which sounds like the house band in an exotic Middle Eastern palace of the imagination.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Byron Metcalf. He’s a percussionist who has a PhD in psychology, has worked on hit pop records with Kenny Rogers and collaborated with Steve Roach.
On the next Echoes, a musician who works as ELEON. He’s creating a very melodic electronic music and is helped out by guitarist David Helpling. We’ll hear music off his album.
On a Slow Flow Echoes the latest by Richard Dillon from his album, Terra Incognito: The Space Between and composer Rachel Grimes, formerly of the group, Rachel’s.
Guitarist Buck Curran takes American primitive guitar east when he plays live on Echoes. One half of the psychedelic folk duo, Arborea, Buck brings that same sensibility to his solo music.
David Arkenstone goes electronic on Colors of the Ambient Sky, an album of high melody and deep electronic moods and downtempo grooves. It’s Echoes CD of the Month for October
The world fusion chamber group Aukai comes to Echoes for a magical performance. Headed up by Markus Sieber from the chant duo Mirabai Ceiba, Aukai plays his gentle compositions live.
The Echoes Top 25 for September 2018 features the Ólafur Arnalds’ CD of the Month “re:member” at the top, followed by Talitha Rise, and William Fitzsimmons and Dr. Deep House