Hear New Age Ancient and Modern. Prompted by the January death of New Age pioneer Iasos, Echoes takes a spin through some of the earliest new age music as well as some of its more recent exponents.
Kevin Keller talks about his album Evensong. It is partly based on the chants and hymns of 12th century Abbess Hildegard von Bingen. Kevin brings these gothic sounds into the 21st century.
David Holmes is a longtime giant of electronic music and a prolific film composer. He teams up with singer Raven Violet to create a politically charged album, Blind on a Galloping Horse.
New music by Limina, an ambient chamber music project from Tyler Durham. He recorded with members of the London Symphony Orchestra to get the crystalline sound of his album, Coming Home.
Brian Eno’s solo debut, Here Come the Warm Jets was released 5 decades ago on February 8. This sonic assault did nothing to predict the ambient direction this artist would pioneer.
On the next Echoes, new music from The Smile. That’s the project of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood. We’ll also hear the latest by Mitski, who explores the dark side of our psyche.
It’s an orchestra of the imagination with music by Orchestra Indigo. This is a project of rock artist Rick Randlett. He goes into a cocktail lounge in space for his album, The Small Hours.
Head into psychedelic space on the 50th anniversary of Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra. This is a seminal album that essentially launched the whole sequencer school of electronics.
Kevin Keller talks about his album Evensong. It is partly based on the chants and hymns of 12th century Abbess Hildegard von Bingen. Kevin brings these gothic sounds into the 21st century.
Steve Roach takes another step in his evolution with a genre defining album of sequencer delirium. His album, The Desert Winds of Change is Echoes February CD of the Month.