Shade your eyes, it’s a Solar Eclipse Soundscape on the next Echoes. Much of the country will be experiencing a solar eclipse on April 8th. Here’s the soundtrack for your journey.
Six hours of continuous instrumental music for the solar eclipse, inspired by the moon blocking the sun, casting a shadow across the earth. Featuring compositions by Tangerine Dream, Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Klaus Schulze, Jan Hammer, Jade Warrior, and many others.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music from Kenneth Hooper who plays Native American flute and we’ll go back to Chronos, an epic 1984 IMAX soundtrack by Michael Stearns that was reissued last year.
It’s an orchestra of the imagination with music by Orchestra Indigo. This is a project of rock artist Rick Randlett. He goes into a cocktail lounge in space for his album, The Small Hours.
Music from Khruangbin, the trio who straddles the line between psychedelic, slow jam R&B and trance music and Glass Beams who straddle the same territory from a Middle Eastern angle.
We’ll hear from two very different singers: One is the sultry pillow talk sound of Cigarettes After Sex from a new single. The other is Shekina Rose, a new age singer channeling the spirits.
The Medieval electronics of Qntal. This brilliant German group, fronted by vocalist Sigrid Hausen, turns medieval texts into electronica songs that seem to come from a cosmic cathedral.
We lost the great cellist & ambient chamber music pioneer David Darling in 2021. But fellow cellist Hans Christian resurrected him in an album of virtual duets called Ocean Dreaming Ocean.
Dave Bessell is a Britsh electronic artist of some note having worked with U2, Coldplay and Node. His album, Chromatic Lightning Cage is a delirious journey into electronic space.