Gracie and Rachel’s latest album is Hello Weakness, You Make Me Strong. They talk music, anger, and pandemic. Then we remember composer Harold Budd who passed on 12/7 with an hour special.
Steve Roach was voted #2 of 30 Icons of Echoes. John Diliberto looks across the career of this influential artist who has gone from Berlin School sequencers to techno-tribal and back again.
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.
The Best of Echoes 2020. Echoes has gone through the hundreds of recordings that we’ve played and picked out the Top 30 albums for 2020, a horrible year in life, but a great year in music.
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.
Norway’s Ane Brun’s albums After The Great Storm and How Beauty Holds the Hand of Sorrow are Echoes CD of the Month. We interview Iceland’s Ólafur Arnalds. Hear them this weekend on Echoes.
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.
We’ll hear songs you know by people who didn’t originally record them including new cover versions of music by Roxy Music, Phil Collins, Cocteau Twins, The Beatles and Pink Floyd.
Brian Eno is the number one of 30 Icons of Echoes. He launched Ambient Music and altered pop music. Here is a list of ten Essential Brian Eno Albums, from ambient to angst.