Ed Harris was raised on heavy metal but went ambient. As Edamame he uses field recordings made on his phone, sampling birds and outside chatter and turning it into percussion and melody.
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2018 – Echoes Program 1845C
Tag: New Age
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2018 – Echoes Program 1845B
Dead Can Dance talk about their conceptual album, Dionysus, a wedding of Greek mythology, tribal culture and global ritual sounds. Brendan Perry talks about hallucinogens to ecstasy on Echoes.
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Monday, November 5th, 2018 – Echoes Program 1845A
On the next Echoes, a legend of ambient and new age music when Laraaji comes in to play live. Laraaji’s 1980 album, Day of Radiance was the 3rd album in Brian Eno’s Ambient series.
Best Of
Echoes October Top 25: David Arkenstone Goes Sky High
The Echoes Top 25 for October 2018 features David Arkenstone’s CD of the Month “Colors of the Ambient Sky” at the top, followed by Dead Can Dance, William Fitzsimmons and Talitha Rise.
CD of the Month
November 2018 CD of the Month: DEAD CAN DANCE
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.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Jan Hammer Interview
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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.
Playlists
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018 – Echoes Program 1843B
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.
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Friday, October 19th, 2018 – Echoes Program 1842E
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.
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Thursday, October 18th, 2018 – Echoes Program 1842D
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.
Playlists
Friday, October 5th, 2018-Echoes Program 1840E
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.