Hear New Age Ancient and Modern. Prompted by the January death of New Age pioneer Iasos, Echoes takes a spin through some of the earliest new age music as well as some of its more recent exponents.
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.
New music by Limina, an ambient chamber music project from Tyler Durham. He recorded with members of the London Symphony Orchestra to get the crystalline sound of his album, Coming Home.
Brian Eno’s solo debut, Here Come the Warm Jets was released 5 decades ago on February 8. This sonic assault did nothing to predict the ambient direction this artist would pioneer.
On the next Echoes, new music from The Smile. That’s the project of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood. We’ll also hear the latest by Mitski, who explores the dark side of our psyche.
Head into psychedelic space on the 50th anniversary of Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra. This is a seminal album that essentially launched the whole sequencer school of electronics.
David Darling & Hans Christian top the Echoes January Top 25, followed by Evening Ocean, Hollan Holmes, Bill Nelson, Peter Gabriel, and 20 more great albums.
Moby covers a song by Cream, and it’s not one of the big ones. He takes a haunting track from Disraeli Gears and turns it slowcore. We’ll also hear something from Beautiful Chorus.
Brannan Lane, John Gregorius and Sean O’Bryan Smith come from different musical worlds – from deep country and western to deep ambience. But they’ve gotten together for an album called Emergence.
Recent music by new wave pioneers, Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark. This electronic duo is still creating sophisticated electronic pop in the 21st century. Their latest album is Bauhaus Staircase.