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.
Best Of
Echoes March 2021 Top 25: Ravenna at the Top
Tag: synthesizer
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Bob Boilen and TONTO’s Malcolm Cecil
Playlists
Thursday, Apr 1, 2021 – Echoes Program 2113D
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.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Apr 14, 2021 – Icon Jean-Michel Jarre
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.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Apr 13, 2021 – Digitonal Interview
Digitonal’s Set the Weather Fair was one of Echoes’ Top five Albums of 2020. Andy Dobson and Dom Graveson talk about their merging of classical moods and electronic ambiences and grooves.
News
Malcolm Cecil of Tonto’s Expanding Head Band R.I.P
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.
Playlists
Tuesday, Mar 30, 2021 – Echoes Program 2113B
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.
Playlists
Monday, Mar 29, 2021 – Echoes Program 2113A
Ambient chamber composer Kevin Keller goes spiritual when heart surgery stops his heart from beating. He contemplates that experience on his album, The Front Porch of Heaven.
Coming Up
Friday, Apr 9, 2021 – Slow Flow Echoes
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.
Playlists
Friday, Mar 26, 2021 – Echoes Program 2112E
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Eric Hilton, one half of the brain trust of Thievery Corporation. His new album, Infinite Everywhere is a laid-back ambient lounge release.