John Zorn creates avant-progressive rock with a simulacrum in the form of a power organ trio with organist John Medeski, guitarist Matt Hollenberg and drummer Kenny Grohowski. They tore up a full house at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia.
We’ll hear from a 21st century progressive rock opus by Mark McGuire called Beyond Belief and sufi chants turned into lush tapestries by HuDost.
Kevin Keller is one of the leading exponents of Ambient Chamber music with a dozen albums exploring a world between electronic and acoustic, ambient and classical music. His latest is called La Strada, and it’s the Echoes November CD of the Month
Every year on Echoes we create a two-hour soundscape of haunted music. But online, we go even further into the underworld with a six hour Wordless Echoes Halloween, an all instrumental walk through the dark side. Listen if you dare.
Our latest album of live Echoes performances is here. It’s called Echoes Live 21. We’ve picked the best tracks from the best live Echoes performances and put them on our 21st CD. Here are the stories behind the tracks.
It’s a slow Flow Echoes with new music from a longtime favorite, English synthesist Bob Holroyd.
Mike Oldfield remains best known for his debut album, Tubular Bells, still a signpost work 43 years later. But he created several beautifully crafted works. Among them is his third album, Ommadawn, released in 1975. We revisit it on Echoes.
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Jean-Michel Jarre is steeped in the lineage of electronic music. On his new album he collaborates with contemporaries like Tangerine Dream, electronica artists M83, Moby, Massive Attack and Air and techno artist Armin Van Buren.
It’s another Slow Flow Echoes as we journey through an all-instrumental soundscape that includes new music from Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour. We’ll hear an instrumental track from his album, Rattle That Lock. We’ll also hear La Strada, an ambient chamber music CD by Kevin Keller.
One of the icons of electronic music are on another leg of their endless swansong tour. They haven’t produced an album in 12 years, yet they are selling out venues across the country for an audience hungry for the original avatars of electro-pop.