Ólafur Arnalds and his ensemble performed live on Echoes back in 2011, playing music from the album he had just released at the time, “And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness.”
It’s the sounds of Ireland on a Celtic Soundscape for St. Patrick’s Day hear mutantrumpet player Ben Neill talk about his fascinating book, Diffusing Music on Echoes
We enter a dream state with Kelly Lee Owens. She’s an electronic musician and singer who hovers between dreampop and EDM. John Diliberto drops a couple of tracks off her album Dreamstate.
Echoes declares winter over with an Echoes Vernal Equinox Soundscape. We’ll hear music for the turning of the seasons and the turning of celestial events to drive winter away.
Ben Neill has been at the bleeding edge of new music for decades with his Mutantrumpet. Now he has a book, Diffusing Music – Trajectories of Sonic Democratization
We talk to a pioneer of electronic music, David Borden, the founding member of Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company. Their debut album from 1973 remains a classic today.
Late Day Summer Breeze by Dieter Spears tops the Echoes February 2025 list, followed by a collaboration between Immersion and SUSS, Ludovico Einaudi, Mogwai, C37, and 20 other great CDs.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, Ian Boddy teams up with German drummer and electronic musician Harold Grosskopf. Grosskopf played on several Klaus Schulze albums and in Ashra and Wallenstein.
We go back to the 1976 album, New Age of Earth by Ash Ra Tempel, the German band led by guitarist Manuel Göttsching. It is a classic of Berlin School electronic space music.
New Zealand musician David Parsons was one of the early artists out of the gate of New Age music and turned towards an electronic world fusion recording two dozen albums.