John McLaughlin returns with a new edition of the acoustic Indian fusion group, Shakti. Then we count down the Best of Echoes 2023 So Far. Did your favorites make the list?
New music by Secret Sky, a group comprised of musicians from Loreena McKennitt’s band, fronted by cellist and singer Caroline Lavelle. The new album is called Opium.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by David Helpling. His new album of ambient orchestrations for guitar and synthesizer is called IN. We’ll also hear new music by Ben Lukas Boysen.
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.
Electronic surrealist Robert Rich is an Icon of Echoes, and his new album, Travelers’ Cloth is the Echoes June CD of the Month. It’s one of Rich’s most seductive and entrancing albums.
Michael Whalen’s Our April Tigers tops the Echoes Top 25 for May, followed by Lucinda Chua, Shana Cleveland, Nashville Ambient Ensemble, and 21 more great artists.
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.