Some chilled music for the hot summer with Nicholas Gunn’s August CD of the Month, 30. It’s an expansive album that celebrates the 30th anniversary of Gunn’s album, Music of the Grand Canyon.
Ankylosing Spondylitis is a spinal disease causing immense pain. But Jessica Robbins, who records as Course, creates some beautiful music out of that pain on her album, Hue Mirror.
Marconi Union sticks the landing with their album, The Fear of Never Landing, Echoes June CD of the Month. AvaWaves just misses and AESEAS eyes the top in Echoes Top 25 Releases for June 2025.
AVAWAVES talk about their new album, Heartbeat hot on the heels of their soundtrack to The Buccaneers and we remember Mark Dwane, the guitary-synth artist who passed on July 24.
Anoushka Shankar has released an impressive trilogy of EPs in the last year that take her sitar in different directions including deep ambient music. We talk to this master musician.
On the Next Echoes, music from Course, the project of Jessica Robbins. On the album Hue Mirror, she turns her medical journey into deeply-felt songs of both despair and hope. We’ll hear a couple of tracks along her journey.
Music from Suzanne Vega’s latest album, Flying with Angels. It’s an atmospheric album with a broader, more philosophical outlook that ingests the state of the world and turns it back out.
It’s psychedelic sounds distilled through synthesizers on Echoes when we hear the latest album by the Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society. Their new album is called Psychedelia.
The electronic sounds of Lisa Bella Donna. She’s a musician with keyboard chops mixing soaring lead lines with modular synthesizer sequences in a euphoric swirl of sound.