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In the Echoes Podcast, Mike Oldfield takes us inside two of his epic works, 1975’s Ommadawn and 2017’s Return to Ommadawn. Tragedy and nostalgia beset both of these wonderful works.
Mike Oldfield is best known for his 1973 epic, Tubular Bells, but one of his most beloved recordings is his third album, 1975’s Ommadawn. Like Tubular Bells it was two, side-long journeys, this time into a sound that was pastoral, Celtic and African.
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Daniel Voth is a two-handed tapping finger-style wizard but with a composer’s sense of arrangement and melody. His album, Trancendance is the Echoes March CD of the Month. Hear John Diliberto’s review with music.
The three headed guitar monster known as The California Guitar Trio return to play live on Echoes. CGT has a new album called Komorebi, a return to a pure acoustic guitar sound.
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Djam Karet are a now venerable American progressive rock group that doesn’t sound venerable at all. They’ve just released one of their best albums, Sonic Celluloid and they talk about it in the Echoes Podcast.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, deep electronic music by S1gns of L1fe and guitarist Chrys Bocast’s new space guitar project, Grand Transients. We spark the future tonight on Echoes.
New music from progressive rock vets Djam Karet and guitarist Daniel Voth on a Slow Flow Echoes.
Tangerine Dream and Steve Roach provide the electronic part of a Slow Flow Echoes.
Kate Bush returns with a Triumphant live album that puts a stamp on the second half of her career. It’s called Before the Dawn, a triple CD and it’s the Echoes Bonus CD of the Month.
Syrinx was an Canadian band making an electronic space music a few years before Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze’s seminal works. Their early 1970s works has been collected on a new album, Tumblers from the Vault. We talk to founding members John Mills-Cockell and Doug Pringle.