Simon Posford of Shpongle has a new album of ambient moods, Flux & Contemplation, and Tom Holkenborg, a.k.a. Junkie XL, has a new soundtrack for White Lines. Go outside the lines on Echoes.
We get Desensitized. That’s the name chosen for the collaboration between melodic electronic artist Deborah Martin and experimental electronic artist Dean De Benedictus.
Mark Dwane has an album called Future Tense that features his guitar actually sounding like a guitar sometimes. We’ll also hear from the collection Imaginational Anthems Volume 10, Overseas Edition.
Echoes Top 25 for March 2021. Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy’s Ravenna, the March CD of the Month, is at the top, followed by, Leandrul, Mint Julep, I Think Like Midnight, and 21 other great CDs.
SUSS is the tripped-out band that merges country, ambient, and psychedelic music and their side project, Numuen. Are they ambient Americana or psychedelic country. We suss it out.
We flip the switch on Jean-Michel Jarre, the 17th Icon of Echoes. He brought electronic music to global popularity with his 1977 album, Oxygene, bringing the space music sound to new audiences.
Malcolm Cecil was an electronic pioneer whose duo, Tonto’s Expanding Head Band, planted the seeds of contemporary electornic music with the album Zero Time in 1971. He leaves at age 84.
Lisa Gerrard returns in full force. She was barely on the last Dead Can Dance album, but her ecstatic sound is all over a new collaboration called Burn. We’ll also hear from All India Radio.
Hear new collaborations with Emancipator, Rena Jones & Flowerpulse’s “Xylem:, Deborah Martin & Jill Haley’s The Silence of Grace and Ian Boddy & Markus Reuters Outland on a Slow Flow Echoes.
New music from Lana Del Rey’s dreamy album of dark truths called Chem Trails Over the Country Club. We’ll also hear a new collaboration between Ian Boddy & Markus Reuter called Outland.