On a Slow Flow Echoes, Jeff Johnson and John Van Deusen go deeply ambient. They’ve created a 29-minute music journey called Eremo, which is Italian for refuge. Echoes is always a refuge.
We set the controls for the heart of infinity when English electronic artist Ian Boddy comes in to play live. Sitting in a cockpit of synthesizers he sends us deep into space.
It’s Big Ears on the next Echoes. We’ll talk to founder Ashley Capps about the Big Ears Festival 2024, which includes performances from Laurie Anderson, King Britt, Roger Eno, and about 200 more.
It’s Quiet Resonance on the next Echoes when we talk to Tony Pounders. As Quiet Resonance, he composes guitar orchestrations that range from ambient to pastoral to pure space.
Hear New Age Ancient and Modern. Prompted by the January death of New Age pioneer Iasos, Echoes takes a spin through some early new age music as well as some of its more recent exponents.
The March CD of the Month is Sacred Places, by Hollan Holmes. We’ll hear that and a program of long tracks – four epic pieces all spanning some 20 minutes each. Take a long ride with Echoes.
Kevin Keller talks about his album, Evensong. It is partly based on the chants and hymns of 12th century Abbess Hildegard von Bingen. Kevin brings these gothic sounds into the 21st century.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we get amorphous with Forrest Fang, from his album called The Lost Seasons of Amorphia, which combines synthesizers with zither, gamelan, and gu-zheng.
David Holmes is a longtime giant of electronic music and a prolific film composer. He teams up with singer Raven Violet to create a politically charged album, Blind on a Galloping Horse.