Jeff Pearce comes in to play music from across his 30-year career. We also remember iconic pianist George Winston. Then we interview Italian electronic artist Catarina Barbieri.
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.
It’s a trip to the red planet when we hear new music by Thaneco from his album, Structures from Mars. It’s an album of deep Berlin school sequencers. We’ll also hear something from Sine.
Electronic music Italian style when we talk to Caterina Barbieri. She’s a solo artist who works in improvisation and modular synthesis that weaves through EDM, Minimalism and sequencer drive.
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.
Some of the most instantly recognizable notes in modern music are from Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells. We celebrate its 50th anniversary as Mike Oldfield and others look back on this epic work.
Mike Oldfield is the 11th of 30 Icons of Echoes. We go through his catalog and Rank his 10 Best albums. And #1 isn’t Tubular Bells. We also rank all 6 iterations of Tubular Bells.