The 19th Icon of Echoes, Kraftwerk. We’ll hear from founder Ralf Hutter as well as Moby, Jean-Michel Jarre, Orbital and Conny Plank, looking back on a band that altered the course of music.
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.
We get Shpongled when we talk to Simon Posford and Raja Ram of the psychedelic electronic duo, Shpongle. They talk about their hallucinogenic sound and their deep music backgrounds.
We hear from London Grammar, the seductive and serene dream pop band. The group talks about the explorations of love and politics that suffuse their new recording, Californian Soil.
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.