The voice of Azam Ali is heard on TV and films, with the groups Vas and Niyaz, and on several solo releases, in a mix of ancient Persian and modern sounds. Her latest album is Synesthesia.
Donna De Lory was a back-up singer for Madonna, but now creates a more spiritual and serene kind of music. She has a new album out with guitarist James Harrah called Sing to the Light.
On the next Echoes, we swing into music by Hammock. On their album, The Second Coming Was a Moonrise, they harken back to their earlier sound with a little more energy and drums.
It’s an Ancient Echoes when we look back on Michael Garrison. He was among the first American artists to pick up on the sound of German electronic music in the 1970s and 80s.
The Artemis II mission to the moon deserves a soundtrack and Echoes has it with An Echoes Journey to the Moon spacescape with space music from Pink Floyd to Transponder and beyond.
Remember Modern English? Mara Katria does, and she has a new collaboration with the band called Modern M. The music is moody and anthemic, a modern extrapolation of a New Wave classic sound.
Singer Joan La Barbara developed extended vocal techniques and imaginary languages long before Lisa Gerrard, Elizabeth Fraser or Azam Ali. John Diliberto talks to her on Echoes.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music from Kenneth Hooper who plays Native American flute and we’ll go back to Chronos, an epic 1984 IMAX soundtrack by Michael Stearns that has been reissued.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, it’s a meeting of electronic wires and acoustic strings when we hear the collaboration between the electronic artist, Four Tet and guitarist William Tyler.