Brian Eno     

Producer, composer and ambient artist--Brian Eno's influence on the music of Echoes and the music world in general is broad and far-reaching.

listen to Brian Eno's "Icons of Echoes" program
listen to a profile of Brian Eno
listen to an interview with Brian Eno about his collaborations
listen to an interview with Brian Eno about his sound/visual installations
Top 5 Brian Eno CDs

Steve Roach
We look back at one of the most influential electronic artists of the last 30 years from Structures from Silence to Dreamtime Return and beyond.

listen to Steve Roach's "Icons of Echoes" program
listen to a Living Room Concert with Steve Roach
listen to a profile of Steve Roach
Top 5 Steve Roach CDs

William Ackerman

All he did was found Windham Hill Records and jump-start the finger-style guitar renaissance. We look back at the career of guitarist Will Ackerman, one of 20 Icons of Echoes.

listen to an interview with William Ackerman
listen to a Living Room Concert with Will Ackerman
listen to Will Ackerman's "Icons of Echoes" program
Top 5 Will Ackerman CDs

Chris Franke and Edgar Froese
of Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream
Bands are still borrowing from the sounds created by Tangerine Dream in the 1970s. We look back on over 40 years of space music from the German electronic band, Tangerine Dream, voted one of 20 Icons of Echoes.

listen to a 1992 interview with Tangerine Dream
listen to a feature on Tangerine Dream's classic album Phaedra
listen to Tangerine Dream's "Icons of Echoes" program
Top 10 Tangerine Dream CDs (couldn't pick just 5!!)

George Winston
Pianist George Winston took Windham Hill Records into the stratosphere and launched a wave of solo piano imitators. Yet few have matched the artistry and longevity of this idiosyncratic pianist

listen to a Living Room Concert with George Winston and Ray Manzarek
listen to an interview with George Winston
listen to George Winston's "Icons of Echoes" program
Top 5 George Winston CDs

R. Carlos Nakai
R. Carlos Nakai has played and been interviewed on Echoes more than any other artist. He takes the Native American flute off the reservation and into spaces no one could imagine.

listen to a Living Room Concert with Nakai, Eaton and Clipman
listen to a Living Room Concert with R. Carlos Nakai and cellist Udi Bar-David
listen to R. Carlos Nakai's "Icons of Echoes" program
Top 5 R. Carlos Nakai CDs

Moby
Moby has had an influential career, from from his techno-rave daze to his album Play and his latest, Wait for Me (an Echoes CD of the Month).

listen to an interview feature with Moby
Top 5 Moby CDs
listen to Moby's "Icons of Echoes" program

Dead Can Dance
Ecstatic vocals have been a major part of Echoes and no one has brought us more ecstasy than Dead Can Dance. Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry filtered sounds and spirits from antiquity and merged them into a ritualistic music.

listen to our 1990 Dead Can Dance feature, on their first North American tour
listen to an interview with Dead Can Dance about their final CD Spiritchaser.
listen to Dead Can Dance's "Icons of Echoes" program
Top 5 Dead Can Dance CDs

Vangelis
The Greek synthesist has been recording for over four decades, creating symphonic electronic orchestrations and dark ambient expanses.

listen to an interview feature with Vangelis
listen to a feature about Vangelis' orchestral work "Mythodea"
Top 10 Vangelis CDs
listen to Vangelis's "Icons of Echoes" program

Enya
With her heavenly soprano, multi-tracked choirs, and Celtic melodies, Enya has transcended her folk roots with a sound that has gained universal acclaim.

listen to "A Vocal Vessel," an interview feature with Enya
listen to "Celtic Choirs," an interview feature with Enya
listen to Enya's "Icons of Echoes" program
Top 5 Enya CDs

Michael Hedges
A revolutionary acoustic guitarist, with captivating compositions, two-handed tapping and other innovative techniques.

listen to our 1994 Living Room Concert with Michael Hedges
listen to our 1996 Living Room Concert with Michael Hedges
Top 5 Michael Hedges CDs
listen to Michael Hedges's "Icons of Echoes" program

Robert Rich
Robert Rich'setechno-tribal music and ambient dreamscapes reflect the state of the art in organic electronic music.

listen to a Living Room Concert with Robert Rich
listen to an interview with Robert Rich
listen to Robert Rich's "Icons of Echoes" program
Top 5 Robert Rich CDs

Afro Celt Sound System
Afro Celt Sound System has been one of the defining sounds of Echoes with their fusion of African, Eastern, and Irish music, coupled with electronic grooves and moods.

listen to a Living Room Concert with Afro Celt Sound System
listen to an interview with Iarla o'Lionaird, Afro Celt Sound System singer
listen to Afro Celt Sound System's "Icons of Echoes" program
Top 5 Afro Celt Sound System CDs

Mark Dwane
Mark Dwane is a space musician with an epic sense of melody and orchestral designs, almost all of which are rendered on the strings of his guitars and guitar synthesizer. His expansive, cinematic albums often have mythic and sci-fi themes, like Other Worlds, The Monuments of Mars, and The Atlantis Factor.

listen to Mark Dwane's "Icons of Echoes" program
Top 5 Mark Dwane CDs

Lisa Gerrard
The voice of Dead Can Dance and numerous film scores like Gladiator, Lisa Gerrard channels spirits in a supralingua dialect of the imagination.

listen to a Living Room Concert with Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke
listen to an interview with Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke
listen to an interview with Lisa Gerrard about her film work
listen to Lisa Gerrard 's "Icons of Echoes" program
listen to an interview with Lisa Gerrard about her first solo CD The Mirror Pool
Top 5 Lisa Gerrard CDs

David Arkenstone
In the 1990s, David Arkenstone turned from rocker to contemporary instrumentalist, composing epic works for keyboards, guitar and flute, all of which he played. We look at the journey of an artist with a penchant for musical odysseys, often with fantasy themes.

listen to David Arkenstone's "Icons of Echoes" program
listen to David Arkenstone in an Echoes Fantasy, an hour-long stream of evocative fantasy music.
listen to David Arkenstone in the Echoes Chamber.
Top 5 David Arkenstone CDs

Ulrich Schnauss
For most of the Icons of Echoes, listeners picked artists who have been around a long time, the mainstays of the Echoes sound. But clocking in at number 19 is a newcomer, at least relative to the 20 years we’ve been producing Echoes. Growing up in Germany to the Berlin school sounds of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Cluster and more, Ulrich Schnauss has brought that space music background into a new generation of music on the ambient, shoegaze and electronica scene.

listen to a Living Room Concert with Ulrich Schnauss
listen to Ulrich Schnauss's "Icons of Echoes" program
Top 5 Ulrich Schnauss CDs

Harold Budd
Producer Daniel Lanois says that Harold Budd plays like feathers on the piano. For over four decades, this composer has been charting a subtle course of ambient chamber music.

listen to Harold Budd 's "Icons of Echoes" program
listen to a Living Room Concert with Harold Budd
Top 5 Harold BuddCDs