There’s a lot of new music to start the new year including debuts from NOMAN with singer Kaat Arnaert, and another great collection from Sine Music, Offline, Vol.2.
Playlists
Thursday, January 4th, 2018-Echoes Program 1801D
Tag: synthesizer
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Thomas Dolby
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Thomas Dolby was an early avatar of electro-pop with hits like “She Blinded Me with Science” but now he’s a Professor at the Peabody Institute. We talk to him in the Echoes Podcast.
Playlists
Friday, December 29th, 2017-Echoes Program 1752E
We’ll hear music by The National. Their album, Sleep Well Beast, is nominated for some Grammy awards. We’ll also hear a classic by Tangerine Dream going back to their 1976 album, Stratosfear.
Playlists
Thursday, December 21st, 2017-Echoes Program 1751D
Get ready for the big chill on an Echoes Winter Solstice. It’s a winter fantasy with no Christmas Carols, but lots of music taking you into the celestial side of the season.
Playlists
Wednesday, December 20th, 2017-Echoes Program 1751C
Coming up on Echoes it’s the band called HDLSS (Headless). They’re an electronic dream pop duo who use 70s pop motifs to explore themes of racial and religious identity.
Playlists
Friday, December 15th, 2017-Echoes Program 1750E
On a Slow Flow Echoes, it’s new dreamy, downtempo sampling sounds from Edamame off of Bask and Odesza returns with some downtempo dreams on A Moment Apart. Fridays have never been so chill.
Interview Podcast
Steve Roach in Echoes Podcast
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Electronic artist Steve Roach rose up out of Space Music and the New Age into his own, deeply carved electronic music. He talks about his Grammy nomination in the Echoes Podcast.
Best Of
The Best of Echoes 2017-The Definitive 25 Albums
There is no other Year End music list like Echoes Best of of 2017. Ambient Requiems. Deep space journeys, chamber pop, progrock epics, EDM journeys and world fusion. See who made the list.
Interview Podcast
Hiroki Okano Return to the Soul in December Echoes Podcast
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Echoes’s John Diliberto reviews Hiroki Okano’s Return to the Soul, the Echoes CD of the Month for December. Okano is a Zen gardener of sound where everything is balanced and in its proper place.
CD of the Month
December CD of the Month: Hiroki Okano Return to the Soul
Hiroki Okano is a Japanese musician creating a unique and meditative world fusion, taking tradition and bringing it into the 21st century on his December CD of the Month, Return to the Soul.