Mutual Benefit is a music project of singer-songwriter Jordan Lee. He’s been acclaimed in places like Stereogum and Pitchfork.
Playlists
Thursday, June 9th, 2016-Echoes Program 1623D
Tag: New Age
Playlists
Tuesday, June 7, 2016-Echoes Program 1623B
Ron Korb has been making instrumental world music for 3 decades. The Canadian musician and composer plays flutes form all over the world, but especially Asia. He weaves his flute melodies into exotic tapestries that conjure up a world far away and sometimes a world of the imagination.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for May 2016
Hammock’s Echoes CD of the Month, “Everything and Nothing” leads the Echoes Top 25 for May, followed by Haroula Rose’s “Here the Blue River,” Jean-Michel Jarre’s “Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise” and Radiohead’s “A Moon Shaped Pool.” See the complete list.
Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes: Confluence
Six hours of continuous instrumental music that featuring diverse musical streams converging and mixing. It includes music from Vic Hennegan, Bill Frisell, Nik Bartsch, Robert Rich, Tomita, BT, and many others.
Reviews & Commentary
Echoes CD of the Month Bonus 1 of 3: Jean-Michel Jarre’s Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise
Famed French synthesist Jean-Michel Jarre of “Oxygene” fame releases second volume of electronica collaborations with Artists ranging from Cyndi Lauper to The Orb.
Reviews & Commentary
Echoes CD of the Month Bonus 3 of 3: Helen Jane Long’s Identity
Helen Jane Long is an unassuming musician who makes a gentle and elegant music that might have come from another, more civil time. SHe’s just released her new chamber music album, Identity.
Reviews & Commentary
Engineer Jack Miller RIP.
Jack Miller was an engineer whose career spanned from Duane Eddy to R. Carlos Nakai. He died on May 12th. We remember him on Echoes.
Interview Podcast
Deborah Martin in the Echoes Podcast
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Deborah Martin’s new album Eye of the Wizard is inspired by supernatural myths, but she used to be a country singer. She talks about going from country to cosmic in Echoes Podcast
Reviews & Commentary
Zone Music Awards Show
The Zone Music Awards is the only place that acknowledges New Age, Ambient, Electronic, Solo Piano and World Fusion, all in one place. We take a look at this years ceremony which took place on May 7 in New Orleans with artists like Jeff Oster, Paul Avgerinos, Eric Scott and many more.
Reviews & Commentary
Isao Tomita 1932-2016 RIP
Isao Tomita left the planet on May 5. I interviewed him in 1992 in his Tokyo Studio. I look back at this early electronic music explorer who took the classics into space