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.
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Wednesday, Feb 9, 2022 – Ambiences in Black
Tag: Space Music
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Monday, Feb 7, 2022 – Marconi Union Interview
We talk to Marconi Union, a true 21st century band. The British electronic trio has a new album out that finds them tapping a more rhythmic, drum driven sound, even though there are no drums.
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Weekend, Feb 5-6, 2022 – Hollan Holmes CD of the Month
The Echoes February CD of the Month takes us into deep space with Emerald Waters by Hollan Holmes. He creates landscape paintings of Texas by day and electronic spacescapes by night.
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Monday, Jan 31, 2022 – Hollan Holmes CD of the Month
The Echoes February CD of the Month takes us into deep space with Emerald Waters by Hollan Holmes. He creates landscape paintings of Texas by day and electronic spacescapes by night.
Playlists
Friday, Jan 14, 2022 – Echoes Program 2202E
Space is the place this year and Vangelis has the album for it. It’s called Juno to Jupiter and it is in the classic Vangelis mode. We’ll also hear music from E.Vax, which is Evan Peter Mast.
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Friday, Jan 21, 2022 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Erik Wøllo. The Norwegian guitarist and electronic artist has a new album called Sojourns. We’ll also hear the electronic designs of Time Wharp.
CD of the Month
Echoes Jan 2022 CD of the Month: The Great Northern
The Great Northern takes classic analog synthesizers and sculpts a nightscape sky that ascends to the heavens on his debut album, Nocturnes.
Coming Up
Friday, Jan 14, 2022 – New music from Vangelis and E.Vax
Space is the place this year and Vangelis has the album for it. It’s called Juno to Jupiter and it is in the classic Vangelis mode. We’ll also hear music from E.Vax, which is Evan Peter Mast.
Best Of
Best Ambient/Electronic Albums of 2021
This list is not like other lists. All “best of” lists are circumscribed by what music the listers were exposed to and personal tastes. In our case, it’s constrained by what we play on Echoes.
Playlists
Tuesday, Dec 28, 2021 – Echoes Program 2152B
Steve Roach was voted #2 of 30 Icons of Echoes. John Diliberto looks across the career of this influential artist who has gone from Berlin School sequencers to techno-tribal and back again.