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.
The California Guitar Trio Live. As if 18 strings weren’t enough, they’ve added six more with Tom Greisgraber on the 12-string Chapman stick. They debut their newest, unreleased music.
We enter the world of Chant. From Abbess Hildegard von Bingen to contemporary musicians exploring a medieval sound, we’ll hear voices descending from the heavens and tuning the spirit.