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Echoes John Diliberto takes an audio journey through his favorite concerts at Big Ears Festival 2019 including Nils Frahm, The Comet is Coming, Harold Budd and more.
The Echoes Top 25 for March 2019 has our CD of the Month “Ice Worlds” by Kevin Keller at the top, followed by Scott August, Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning, Mary Lattimore, and 21 more.
The Big Ears Festival took place in Knoxville this past weekend, March 21-24. John Diliberto dove in, attending 24 concerts of bleeding edge music and gentle refrains. Read his review.
On the next Echoes, trance out to Simrit Kaur a Greek born, American raised and Eastern inclined singer. who takes Kirtan chants into world fusion territory on a new live album.
Dead Can Dance talk about their conceptual album, Dionysus, a wedding of Greek mythology, tribal culture and global ritual sounds. Brendan Perry talks about hallucinogens to ecstasy on Echoes.
Rising EDM star CloZee comes in to talk about a sound that she has called World Bass. She mixes sampled sounds of global instruments and motifs on her latest album, Evasion.
On a Slow Flow Echoes we explore early Japanese ambient music from a new collection called Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Environmental, Ambient & New Age Music 1980-1990.
Talos, is an Irish band exploring a dreamy electronica pop sound. They have a new album called Far Out Dust. We’ll also hear English singer-songwriter Lucy Rose from her EP, No Words Left.
Flutist Suzanne Teng and percussionist Gilbert Levy talk about their world fusion band, Mystic Journey, which sounds like the house band in an exotic Middle Eastern palace of the imagination.
The Echoes Top 25 for February 2019 has Phil Keaggy & Jeff Johnson’s CD of the Month “Cappadocia” at the top, followed by William Tyler, Nicholas Gunn, Roma, Sharon Van Etten and 20 more.