In 1990 Enigma enchanted the world with their album, MCMXC A.D. (1990) mixing gothic chants and electronic moods. Now they return with their first album in eight years, The Fall of a Rebel Angel. Founder Michael Cretu talks about it on Echoes.
Peppino D’Agostino is an acclaimed musician who came up during that second wave of acoustic guitarists in the 1980s with Will Ackerman, Michael Hedges, Alex De Grassi and Preston Reed. He plays live on Echoes.
Veteran English synthesist Ian Boddy’s As Above So Below is a masgterwork of modern electronics with a classical touch. It’s the Echoes CD of the Month for January.
New recordings from Tom Caufield, Carl Weingarten & Catherine Marie Charlton, and Matt Borghi join our December CD of the Month, Erik Scott’s In the Company of Clouds, on the Echoes Top 25 for December.
Ed Harris is another musician who was raised on metal but went into ambient electronic music instead. As Edamame uses field recordings made on his phone for some percussive sounds samples of birds chirping and outside chatter.