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.
The Echoes Top 25 for October 2018 features David Arkenstone’s CD of the Month “Colors of the Ambient Sky” at the top, followed by Dead Can Dance, William Fitzsimmons and Talitha Rise.
Dead Can Dance has released a challenging album for longtime DCD fans, “Dionysus”. It’s a conceptual album of ritualistic music that draws on Middle Eastern modalities for an ecstatic state.
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.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Byron Metcalf. He’s a percussionist who has a PhD in psychology, has worked on hit pop records with Kenny Rogers and collaborated with Steve Roach.
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.
The world fusion chamber group Aukai comes to Echoes for a magical performance. Headed up by Markus Sieber from the chant duo Mirabai Ceiba, Aukai plays his gentle compositions live.
The Echoes Top 25 for September 2018 features the Ólafur Arnalds’ CD of the Month “re:member” at the top, followed by Talitha Rise, and William Fitzsimmons and Dr. Deep House
The world fusion chamber group Aukai comes to Echoes for a magical performance. Headed up by Markus Sieber from the chant duo Mirabai Ceiba, Aukai plays his gentle compositions live.
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