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.
There will be some seasonal chill in the air on Echoes as we near Christmas. But we’ll also hear new music from Peter Gabriel off his album i/o and Jean-Michel Jarre from Oxymoreworks.
Echoes doesn’t have 12 days of Christmas but we do have 12 CD of the Month Picks. We’ll go through them, first forward from January and then backwards from December.
Kevin Keller’s Evensong leads the Echoes Top 25 for November, followed by Russell Walder, Brannan Lane, John Gregorius, & Sean O’Bryan Smith and 22 more great albums.
It’s an Echoes Winterlüde when we hear acclaimed New Age artist David Arkenstone performing music from his new release, Winterlüde as well as his take on classic holiday tunes. It’s the seasonal concert of your dreams.
David Arkenstone has crafted an album that captures the mysticism, weather and sound of the season with Winterlüde with all original tone poems. It’s Echoes December CD of the Month.
Neo-Classical meets electronic space when John Diliberto talks to wind and piano player Jill Haley and electronic artist Deborah Martin. Their second collaboration is Into the Quiet.
We hear electronic sounds from Brazil when we talk to Anna. She’s creating ambient music after a career in thumping techno. Her album Intentions revels in serene melodic cycles.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Aukai (Markus Sieber) who specializes in the South American instrument called the charango. He carves out delicate, brush stroked music on his album, Apricity.