We go classical for the next Echoes CD of the month if your idea of classical is Steve Reich and Philip Glass amped up. That’s the sound of English composer Poppy Ackroyd’s energized neo-classical album, Resolve.
We’ll survey the Echoes artists who are up for Grammy Awards this Sunday including Steve Roach, Peter Kater, Brian Eno, Odesza, Bonobo and Laura Marling.
She sang the Yoko Ono style shrieks with The B-52s, but on her own, Cindy Wilson creates a retro dream-pop sound with her solo debut album called Change. We bring a track from that and an electronic duo from Australia called Albrecht La’Brooy.
The 1968 debut by Spirit featured a jazz drummer, a guitarist who played with Jimi Hendrix and songwriters who tapped the acid rock sound in a very different way. It also features the song that may have inspired “Stairway to Heaven.”
Soundtrack composer Mac Quayle plugs in for the cyber-soundtrack of TVs, Mr. Robot, the dark, sci-fi dystopian drama. We talk to him about electronic music of a disturbed mind.
It’s the sultry sounds of Charlotte Gainesbourg on Echoes when we hear new music from the French singer off her album, Rest. And electronic artist Tomas Barfod has a new album of downtempo moods called Paloma.
Avant-ambient world fusionist Forrest Fang has a new soundscape out, Scenes from a Ghost Train and we’ll hear a chill track by Nouveau Flamenco duo Terra Guitarra.
Even though he composes music for fashion shows, the sound of Prequell is more than just a pretty pose. Thomas Roussel, the man behind Prequell, talks about merging electronics and orchestra.