Mike Oldfield remains best known for his debut album, Tubular Bells, still a signpost work 43 years later. But he created several beautifully crafted works. Among them is his third album, Ommadawn, released in 1975. We revisit it on Echoes.
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Jean-Michel Jarre is steeped in the lineage of electronic music. On his new album he collaborates with contemporaries like Tangerine Dream, electronica artists M83, Moby, Massive Attack and Air and techno artist Armin Van Buren.
Coming up on the next Echoes it’s new music by Low. The band that specializes in slowly moving rock gets a little less slow on their new album, Ones and Sixes.
It’s been seven years since Enyas last album of new material but she’s about to return with a new CD. In advance, the first single has been released, Echoes in the Rain with an accompanying video.
We open fall with an autumnal CD of the Month, the debut album by Slow Meadow.
It’s another Slow Flow Echoes as we journey through an all-instrumental soundscape that includes new music from Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour. We’ll hear an instrumental track from his album, Rattle That Lock. We’ll also hear La Strada, an ambient chamber music CD by Kevin Keller.
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The English duo Anima is a band steeped in shamanic mysticism, psychedelic plants and electronic music. They’ve lived in the jungles in the Amazon and partaken in local rituals, which they translate into detailed electronic landscapes.
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.
We open fall with an autumnal CD of the Month, the debut album by Slow Meadow.
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Steven Halpern released his first album of electric piano modalities, Spectrum Suite, in 1975. That makes 2015 his 40th anniversary as a recording artist. We talk to Halpern about the evolution of his music from the “anti-frantic alternative” to his concepts of sound healing.