Trentemøller is a Danish electronic musician who started out on the dance floor. Now he’s creating a more introspective music drawing upon his memories and his recent status as a father.
In honor of Black History Month, we turn the Echoes prism onto the African and black influences in ambient music. They come from many sources: jazz, R&B, Hip-hop and Africa itself.
We talk to Marconi Union, a true 21st century band. The British electronic trio has a new album out that finds them tapping a more rhythmic, drum driven sound, even though there are no drums.
We hear dream pop from Australia from Brigitte Bardini. Her debut album, Stellar Lights, is bathed in new wave grooves, dream pop moods and singer-songwriter reveries.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Bill Nelson. The renowned English guitarist and founder of Be-Bop Deluxe is pouring out new solo albums and we’ll hear from a new one, Theatre of Falling Leaves.
We visit the Electronic Music Education and Preservation Project, EMEAPP. It’s a museum of electronic instruments from the earliest devices, through Keith Emerson’s keyboard rig, and beyond.
Peter Gregson is a classically-trained cellist, but he goes into ambient chamber music on his recording Patina. It mixes synthesizers and electronic processing along with orchestral strings.
We talk to Marconi Union, a true 21st century band. The British electronic trio has a new album out that finds them tapping a more rhythmic, drum driven sound, even though there are no drums.
With Emerald Waters, Hollan Holmes has forged a definitive recording that wraps you in an entrancing web of sound, and sends you spinning into space. It’s Echoes February CD of the Month.
In honor of Black History Month, we turn the Echoes prism onto the African and black influences in ambient music. They come from many sources: jazz, R&B, Hip-hop and Africa itself.