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Echoes Podcast: Dead Can Dance Icons & Harold Budd R.I.P.

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Dead Can Dance/Harold Budd

Thursday, Dec 24, 2020 – An Echoes Christmas I

Get the sugar plums dancing with an Echoes Night Before Christmas. It’s not your shopping Mall Christmas carols with David Arkenstone’s Native Christmas, and Smoke Fairies Wild Winter.

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5 Essential Harold Budd CDs.

Harold Budd passed away on December 7th at 84. Here are Five Essential Harold Budd albums from this avatar of ambient chamber music who defined a sound that was unrepentantly beautiful.

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Wednesday, Dec 23, 2020 – Thomas Lemmer and Sebastian Pabst

It’s a new generation of German electronic artists when we talk to Thomas Lemmer and Sebastian Pabst. They’ve been churning out downtempo dreams and electro-lounge moods at a prolific pace.

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Harold Budd R.I.P: Leaving the Planet at 84

Harold Budd 1936-2020t: Rest in BeautyAmbient composer and pianist Harold Budd has left the planet, Departing on December 7th, 2020 at the age of 84. And he hated being called an ambient composer as much as being called a New Age one. Harold Budd was on Echoes about a dozen times, playing live at least…

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Playlists

Tuesday, Dec 8, 2020 – Echoes Program 2049B

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.

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Best Of

Best of Echoes 2020-The Top 30 Albums of the Year

The Best of Echoes 2020. We pick out our 30 Favorite albums of the year covering the range of the Echoes Soundscape. This is a Best of list like no other. 2020 Sucked! This list doesn’t.

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Coming Up

Friday, Dec 18, 2020 – Slow Flow Echoes

We’ll hear the latest recording by French guitarist Pierre Bensusan. He came up during the days of Windham Hill guitarists like Michael Hedges, who named a song after him. His latest album is Azwan.

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Playlists

Friday, Dec 4, 2020 – Echoes Program 2048E

Pianist Peter Kater goes Hawaiian. He taps traditional Hawaiian music and musicians and creates a lush landscape around them. We’ll also hear new music by the electronic artist Kayobe.

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