In the world of space and ambient music, the German group called Cluster are eccentric wizards, musical alchemists who defied traditions, even the ones they helped create in 1970s Berlin. One half of this influential band, Dieter Moebius, died on July 20 at the age of 71. We listen back to an interview with Cluster from 1997, and hear some music from Cluster, Harmonia, and Cluster and Eno.
Árstíðir is another band out of Iceland, but this one has a more organic and acoustic sound with routes in the harmonies of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. They come in to Echoes to perform their music live.
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Kristin Hoffmann’s album The Human Compass is a spiritual exploration through a tumultuous time in her life. On a new album, Amazing Space, she scores an electro-acoustic journey that accompanies images of the universe from the Hubble space telescope.
Árstíðir is another band out of Iceland, but this one has a more organic and acoustic sound with routes in the harmonies of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. They come in to Echoes to perform their music live.
Rebekka Karijord is yet another singer from Sweden, but she eschews the ethereal girl sound for a throatier, more soulful approach. She plays her music live on Echoes.
Heather Woods Broderick is a singer-songwriter detailing a life of transience amidst a music that hovers in moody atmospheres and haunting choruses. Her album, Glider is the the Echoes CD of the Month for July.
We pick the Best Echoes CDs of the Year at the halfway point. John Diliberto then runs them down from #25 to number 1. It begins with a band we’ve never heard of before and ends with an Icon of Echoes. We’ll hear from artists who put out signature releases, others reaching for ambitious highs and still others reflecting on very long careers.
It’s Slow Flow Friday on Echoes, an all instrumental soundscape to take you into the weekend.
It’s the longest day of the year and Echoes has the music to welcome in summer.
She’s sung with artists like Efterklang and Sharon Van Etten, but now Heather Woods Broderick has an impressive new solo album called Glider.