In 1990 Enigma enchanted the world with their album, MCMXC A.D. (1990) mixing gothic chants and electronic moods. Now they return with their first album in eight years, The Fall of a Rebel Angel. Founder Michael Cretu talks about it on Echoes.
The Dreampop group Delerium returns with a new album called Mythologie and Vinyl Williams brings us some psychedelia on their album, Brunei.
Singer Norah Jones goes back home on her new album called Day Breaks. We’ll hear a track from that and the electro-pop band called Fresh Snow.
Upon the release of Pink Floyd’s Early Years box set, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason takes us back to the seminal days of this iconic rock group, talking about light shows, happenings, and sonic experiments that exploded the concept of pop.
Still Corners is the UK electronic pop duo and they return to Echoes to play songs from their latest album, Dead Blue, live. Still Corners has taken a darker direction of the new album with even more ‘80’s synth-pop influences.
On the next Echoes, Sonogram tackles Gershwin’s “Someone to Watch Over Me” and Sweetbird adapt the poetry of Rumi.
Veteran English synthesist Ian Boddy’s As Above So Below is a masgterwork of modern electronics with a classical touch. It’s the Echoes CD of the Month for January.
Ed Harris is another musician who was raised on metal but went into ambient electronic music instead. As Edamame uses field recordings made on his phone for some percussive sounds samples of birds chirping and outside chatter.
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