Trevor Gordon Hall is a master finger-style guitarist who also plays a custom-designed instrument called the Kalimbatar, that combines the African kalimba with an acoustic guitar.
Get ready for the big chill on An Echoes Winter Solstice. Echoes’ John Diliberto creates a soundscape of snow-shrouded trees, silent saguaro cacti and white-out conditions, with no Christmas Carols.
Many musicians who lit up the Echoes sky left us this year. They may have left the planet but their music remains. John Diliberto remembers, with Echoes in Memoriam.
Jeff Oster, Vin Downes and Tom Eaton play live. They released their debut album earlier this year, a deep recording of ambient improvisation. Every time they play, it’s a different journey.
As Simon Emmerson was leaving the planet, he left Afro Celt Sound System their best album in nearly 20 years with OVA. It’s Echoes December CD of the Month.
We throw out our GPS and get out MAPS. That’s the recording persona of James Chapman. His last two albums have been pure joyous, electronic bliss. We talk counter melodies and more.
David Arkenstone talks about his album, Winterlude. It’s a seasonal tone poem without Christmas carols and without sleigh bells. Join John Diliberto for this exclusive interview.
We’ll hear two singers on the edge: KÁRYYN and Sheenah Ko. We’ll also look back at the influential album Who’s Afriad of the Art of Noise, by the band Art of Noise, released in 1984.
We’ve been playing the electronic music of Vic Hennegan for decades on Echoes. Now we will be talking to Jaymie Rose Hennegan who made her debut with the album, Transition, and has a new release, Devocean.
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.