We celebrate Ravi Shankar’s career and music on what would have been his 100th birthday. In an interview, he talks about an ancient sound and spirit that helped transform modern music.
Playlists
Tuesday, Apr 7, 2020 – Echoes Program 2014B
Tag: World Fusion
Reviews & Commentary
Azam Ali’s All That Is Left Is Sky Video
Azam Ali, the entrancing singer of Niyaz, has created a gorgeous and epic song and video to benefit musicians stricken by the financial damage of the Corona Pandemic.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Jake Shimabukuro
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Ukulele Giant Jake Shimabukuro Goes Beyond in the Echoes Podcast. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/EchoesPodcast-JakeShimabukuro.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS In the Echoes Podcast, Jake Shimabukuro, the virtuoso Hawaiian ukulele player, talks about revolutionizing an instrument often seen as a novelty into a tool of pyrotechnic fury and ambient expanses. His new album, The Jake Shimabukuro Trio…
Best Of
Echoes March 2020 Top 25: Agnes Obel at the Top
The Echoes Top 25 for March 2020 features Agnes Obel’s Myopia, YPPAH, Michael Whalen, Ryan Farrish, Ava, Yael Naim and 19 other CDs. See if your favorites made the list.
Coming Up
Thursday, Apr 16, 2020 – Slow Flow Echoes
Native American flute has been making a return to the Echoes Soundscape and on a Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear two of them, Kenneth Hooper’s Directions and Vicki Logan’s Born Out of Chaos.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Apr 15, 2020 – Throwback 30: Kitaro
We return to the April 1990 album, Kojiki by Kitaro. It was a landmark recording for the Japanese electronic artist that brought his sound into orchestral and world music terrain.
Playlists
Wednesday, Apr 1, 2020 – Echoes Program 2013C
Deep Mountain was the recording projected of Bapak Dudal, unheralded pioneer of ambient world fusion in the 1990s. As part of Echoes 30th Anniversary, we look back at this lost icon.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Apr 7, 2020 – Ravi Shankar’s 100th Birthday
We celebrate Ravi Shankar’s career and music on what would have been his 100th birthday. In an interview, he talks about an ancient sound and spirit that helped transform modern music.
Coming Up
Weekend, Apr 4-5, 2020 – April CD of the Month Sacred Spaces
Michael Whalen’s epic electronic CD, Sacred Spaces is featured as Echoes April CD of the Month. Then it’s an interview with cellist Hans Christian about his ambient album, After the Fall.
Reviews & Commentary
10 Albums to Buy On Bandcamp’s COVID-19 Fundraiser
We have 10 albums to buy on Bandcamp, who are waiving their revenue share to help out artists during the COVID-19 Pandemic. See our 10 picks for great albums to buy and artists to support.