This months Echoes Top 25 sees the return of two longtime Echoes favorites, William Orbit and Mark Dwane. There’s also a few surprises. Who would’ve thought that two former Prince vamps, guitarists for Spinal Tap and a Hot Tuna would be in the Echoes May Top 25. But that’s the case with Wendy & Lisa’s…
Month: April 2009
CD of the Month
Echo Location: Leo Abrahams May CD of the Month
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090429.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA Brian Eno accomplice looks to the pastoral past on The Grape and the Grain. You can hear an audio version of this blog with Leo Abrahams’ music here. Leo Abrahams is one of those musicians, you may not know, but you have heard him. He’s performed with…
Interview Podcast
Echo Location Podcast-Michael Whelan & Atomic Skunk
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090422.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPodcast of Echo Location with Michael Whelan and Atomic Skunk Listen Here. I usually create blogs out of Echo Location features, but this week I reversed direction and created an Echo Location out of the blog posting: Michael Whalen & Atomic Skunk: Free Music that Doesn’t Stink Follow link…
Reviews & Commentary
An Homage to Paul Williams-Godfather of Rock Criticism
Paul Williams changed my life. There are a few things I can look back on as life-altering: Jimi Hendrix, my wife, my kids and Paul Williams. Most people probably don’t know about Paul. He was one of the first serious rock journalists. He founded Crawdaddy! Magazine in 1966, right around the corner from me now…
Program Highlights
Synergy-Larry Fast Interview
A synthesizer pioneer reflects on his work with Peter Gabriel, Wendy Carlos and his own Synergy albums. Larry Fast was an early exponent of purely electronic and melodic space music. His album, Realizations for Rock Orchestra is still a favorite among electronic music fans. He worked with Peter Gabriel extensively in the 1970s and…
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Echo Location: The Mandrake Project-
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090415.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe best progressive band of the 2000s? If you’re looking for Progressive Rock that isn’t trapped in the 1970s, The Mandrake Project has some forward thinking music for you. You can hear an audio version of this blog with music from The Mandrake Project, here. With influences that…
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Michael Whalen and Atomic Skunk: Free Music that Doesn’t Stink
Free electronic music from two artisans of ambience, Michael Whalen and Atomic Skunk.
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Echo Location: The Beyman Bros
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090408.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSpinal Tap guitarist creates bluegrass jams in global space. (You can hear an audio version of this blog with music from The Beyman Bros.) When you see the back CD cover of an album by The Beyman Bros, with Christopher Guest sitting on a porch, holding a mandolin,…
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Ozric Tentacles, Natural Born Chillers and YumYum Music
Ozric picks the fruit of The YumYum Tree & Natural Born Chillers Return Two slices of downtempo psychedelia have crossed over recently. Ozric Tentacles follows up their last studio album, The Floor Is Too Far Away with a new one called The YumYum Tree. It’s another foray of deeply electrified psychedelic journeys. Synthesizers pulse while…
Best Of
Echoes March Top 25: David Darling Tops
David Darling Tops Echoes Top 25 for March This year is already shaping up to be a diverse and unusual one with fantastic, innovative music coming from unlikely sources. David Darling’s Prayer for Compassion topping the list, is of course, no surprise. He was our Echoes CD of the Month for March and he’s been…