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.
Big Ears Festival 2019 brings another slate of diverse and adventurous music to their 2019 event. Read about the final lineup which includes Nils Frahm, Harold Budd and Spiritualized.
Bassist Erik Scott played psychedelic music, performed with Alice Cooper and Flo and Eddie and has survived cancer. So what does he do at the age of 70? Make beautiful melancholy musc.
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.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, ambient chamber music by pianist Lena Natalia from Lonely Satellite. We’ll also hear new electronic music out of Germany by Thomas Lemmer and Christoph Sebastien Pabst.
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Mystic Journey sound like the house band in Middle Eastern. We talk to flutist Suzanne Teng and percussionist Gilbert Levy about their world fusion in the Echoes Podcast.
New music by Indarra, an entrancing band with a supernatural Basque name centered on the declamatory vocals of Sue Hutton. We’ll also hear the latest by the chant trio White Sun on Echoes.
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.
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.