Seduction & entrancement are part of Echoes June CD of the Month. Travelers Cloth by Robert Rich is an album of sensual moods threaded on flutes, percussion, ambient lap-steel & synthesizers.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, electronic music by Colin Rayment: Polyphonic Memories II. It’s in the Berlin School style of an artist from that era, Robert Schroeder, who also has a recent album.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by David Helpling. His album of ambient orchestrations for guitar and synthesizer is called IN. We’ll also hear music by Ben Lukas Boysen.
Some of the most instantly recognizable notes in modern music are from Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells. We celebrate its 50th anniversary as Mike Oldfield and others look back on this epic work.
The enchantment of Lucinda Chua. The British singer and cellist has just released a masterful, perfectly-pitched album called Yian. It translates as Swallow. Lucinda Chua flies on Echoes.
Mike Oldfield is the 11th of 30 Icons of Echoes. We go through his catalog and Rank his 10 Best albums. And #1 isn’t Tubular Bells. We also rank all 6 iterations of Tubular Bells.
We enter a hallucinogenic state when we talk with Delerium, the long-lived dream pop duo. We’ll talk to Rhys Fulber and Bill Leeb about their electronic approach to pop.
Moby talks about Punk Rock Veganism, arranging his electronic songs for orchestra on the Deutsche Grammophon label and his collaborations with different singers on his new label.
We remember on an Echoes Memorial Day Soundscape. John Diliberto brings us music to contemplate the loss and the carnage of wars, as well as mass shootings and violence across America.