Coming up on a Slow Flow Echoes it’s music from guitarist Jeffrey Seeman. You probably haven’t heard of him but he’s a slide guitarist and has a new album produced by Will Ackerman called Everything in Between.
We’ve got the digital blender fired up for Echoes Remixed. John Diliberto plays a lot of music you know, but in versions that aren’t the original in an all remix show.
The Echoes Top 25 for January includes the CD of the Month by Contact, as well as last month’s pick, Enya, along with new releases by Tuxedomoon, Ane Brun and Tranceology.
Sierra Hull is a prodigy who played mandolin at the Grand Ole Opry at 11. But now she’s a singer-songwriter recording with Alison Krauss, Abigail Washburn and Bela Fleck on her new album, Weighted Mind
A six-hour uninterrupted soundscape featuring energetic music, including The American Dollar, Tuxedomoon, Roger Eno, Jon Hassell and many more.
On the next Echoes it’s new music by Swedish singer Ane Brun. She’s backed up Peter Gabriel and is an icon on the Swedish scene.
Slow Meadow is the performance name of Matt Kidd who started out as a guitarist playing in church and Christian music bands before venturing out on his own ambient journey.
An all-instrumental Slow Flow Echoes includes music from electronic artist Raygun Ballet, New Age duo Anima and a surprisingly ambient soundtrack by film composer Danny Elfman for the movie The End of the Tour.
Brian Eno’s Discreet Music is the seminal work of ambient music. Now Contact has taken this electronic piece and arranged it for acoustic instruments. Contact’s Discreet Music is the Echoes CD of the Month.
The English duo Anima is a band steeped in shamanic mysticism, psychedelic plants and electronic music. The duo of Ali Calderwood and Daniela Broder live on a farm off the grid in Scotland, making electronic music powered by solar cells. They’ve lived in the jungles of Indian tribes in the Amazon and partaken in their rituals which they turn into some of the most detailed electronic landscapes.