Hear New Age Ancient and Modern. Echoes takes a spin through some of the earliest new age music as well as some of its more recent exponents, including Steven Halpern, Iasos, Yaima and White Sun.
Electronic artist Tim Blake was there at the beginning, playing synth for space rockers Gong and Hawkwind and launching his own project of synthesizers and lasers, Crystal Machine.
We’ve been playing the electronic music of Vic Hennegan for decades on Echoes. Now we will be talking to Jaymie Rose Hennegan who has just made her debut with the album, Transition.
The August CD of the Month is the debut of Jaymie Rose Hennegan. Transition. We’ll hear that and our interview with Tori Amos on the 10th Anniversary of her album, Unrepentant Geradines.
Forty years ago Steve Roach released his influential album, Structures from Silence. It’s a CD of quiet spaces and contemplation. They’ve just released a 40th Anniversary CD deluxe edition.
Music from Arooj Aftab, the Pakistani-American singer who wraps you in dark sultriness. We’ll hear from her album, Night Reign. We’ll also hear a psychedelic band called Magic Fig.
Deadmau5 is one of the more adventurous of EDM artists. His new single takes its name from the feathered serpent of Aztec mythology, Quetzalcoatl. That and more tonight on Echoes.
Loreena McKennitt revisits her classic album, The Mask and Mirror. She’s currently touring that album in Europe, and released a live album from 1994 on the original’s 30th anniversary.
On the next Echoes, music from New Age diva, Marya Stark. She teams up with multi-instrumentalist Daniel Berkman playing Kora, Cello and Ondomo. Their album is Underground River.