SUSS is the tripped-out band that merges country, ambient, and psychedelic music and their side project, Numün. Are they ambient Americana or psychedelic country. We suss it out.
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.
Loreena McKennitt arises as the 14th Icon. We’ll hear a profile of this one-of-a-kind artist. Then we remember Constance Demby, a New Age Queen who died on March 20, 2021.
We declare winter over with an Echoes Vernal Equinox Soundscape. We’ll hear music for the turning of the seasons and the cycle of celestial events to drive winter away.
Echoes Top 25 for February 2021. Time Traveler’s Sky Falter, February’s CD of the Month, is at the top, followed by Erik Wollo, Grandbrothers, Todd Boston, and 21 other great CDs.
It’s just about the right time for a Mint Julep, not the drink or candy, but the dreampop duo of Keith and Hollie Kenniff. They have a new album, In a Deep and Dreamless Sleep.
Steve Roach has just released Into the Majestic, which taps his more celestial electronic side. We’ll also hear music from Mark Dwane off his new album, Atlantean Apparitions.
German electronic music legend Hans-Joachim Roedelius was a founder of Cluster and Harmonia. Lately, he’s gone acoustic and has even recorded for the Deutsche Grammophon classical label.