Guitarist Richard Leo Johnson pushed the limits of Michael Hedges-inspired extended technique before going completely out-there with an Americana music of the imagination. His new album, Celeste, posits the idea of an alien abduction.
We revisit an interview from 25 years ago with Jon Hassell. The legendary creator of Fourth World Music, collaborator with Brian Eno and Talking Heads talks about his 1989 album, City: Works of Fiction, recently reissued in a deluxe box set.
Lana Del Rey’s new album Ultraviolence is intensely melodic and luxuriously melancholy. It’s an album that somehow fits on Echoes more than any other place.
Kaya Project is the Ethno-Techo outlet for Seb Taylor. He’s just released a new album called Firedance that ups the rhythmic ante in a frenzy of darbuka grooves and seductive melodies.
New music by Orenda Fink, she’s one half of the duo Azure Ray, and has a new solo album of gentle songs called Blue Dream, and from looping cellist Matthew Schoening who has a new album called Narrow Path.
Marissa Nadler is a singer-songwriter of delicate dimensions and deep atmospheres. She plays music live from her latest album July, accompanied by cellist Janel Lepin of the duo Janel & Anthony.
John Luttrell has just released an ambitious new album of guitar and keyboard orchestrations called The Dream Exchange.
Kaya Project is the Ethno-Techo outlet for Seb Taylor. He’s just released a new album called Firedance that ups the rhythmic ante in a frenzy of darbuka grooves and seductive melodies.
Yoed Nir was trained as a classical cellist in Israel, but then began playing with rock artists like Regina Spektor and Rufus Wainwright. On his solo albums, he forges an ambient chamber music of looping, multi-tracked and electronically processed cello to create his own 21st century orchestra. We’ll hear him play music from his album, The Next Dream, live on Echoes.
Fin Greenall, who records as Fink, has transformed from a techno artist to a transcendental folkie. He has a new album out called Hard Believer. We’ll also hear from Saul Stokes and his new CD of homemade electronics, LFOUFO.
