Texas-based artist Hollan Holmes paints southern landscapes and rusty artifacts by day, but he heads into electronic space at night, composing music like his CD of the Month, Emerald Waters.
We visit the Electronic Music Education and Preservation Project, EMEAPP. It’s a museum of electronic instruments from the earliest devices through Keith Emerson’s keyboard rig and beyond.
In honor of Black History Month, we turn the Echoes prism onto the African and black influences in ambient music. They come from many sources: jazz, R&B, Hip-hop and Africa itself.
We hear dream pop from Australia from Brigitte Bardini. Her debut album, Stellar Lights, is bathed in new wave grooves, dream pop moods and singer-songwriter reveries.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Bill Nelson. The renowned English guitarist and founder of Be-Bop Deluxe is pouring out new solo albums and we’ll hear from a new one, Theatre of Falling Leaves.
We visit the Electronic Music Education and Preservation Project, EMEAPP. It’s a museum of electronic instruments from the earliest devices, through Keith Emerson’s keyboard rig, and beyond.
With Emerald Waters, Hollan Holmes has forged a definitive recording that wraps you in an entrancing web of sound, and sends you spinning into space. It’s Echoes February CD of the Month.
Guitar icon Phil Keaggy comes in with his acoustic guitar and looping station to generate multiple lines of his evocative melodies live. We hear triple when Phil Keaggy plays live.
In honor of Black History Month, we turn the Echoes prism onto the African and black influences in ambient music. They come from many sources: jazz, R&B, Hip-hop and Africa itself.
Guitar icon Phil Keaggy comes in with his acoustic guitar and looping station to generate multiple lines of his evocative melodies live. We hear triple when Phil Keaggy plays live.