Month: August 2009

Echoes Top 25 for August: Bocast & MJCatalin top

Chris Bocast and MJCatalin‘s Stratagem Tops Echoes Top 25 for August. August was a bit of a strange month.  Deep Echoes listeners will have noted a lot of repeat shows as we took time to gear up for the fall and our 20th Anniversary. But great music did get played. Chris Bocast and MJCatalin‘s Stratagem…

Echo Location: Karda Estra’s Weird Tales

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090819.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSGothic horror, progressive rock and soundtracks create the scene of Karda Estra. You can hear an audio version of this blog, including the Karda Estra zombie chant, here. When English composer Richard Wileman was seeking a name for his Gothic chamber music project, he looked to the movies…

I Missed Woodstock

MY BODY MISSED WOODSTOCK, BUT MY SOUL WAS THERE Just a freshman in high school in 1969, I wasn’t quite old enough, or rebellious enough,  to hit the road to Woodstock, and my parents weren’t about to take me there, although  my dad did take me and my friend, Bob Chandler, to the Newport Jazz…

The Five Best George Winston CDs

George Winston Then & Now George Winston is both loved and reviled. His impressionistic solo piano albums came to define the Windham Hill sound and he’s among the first musicians most people think of when you say, New Age.  Praised with five and four star reviews from Downbeat and Rolling Stone for his debut album, …

Les Paul R.I.P.

The Godfather of Modern Recording passes away. Les Paul was beyond iconic.  He invented the solid body electric guitar and unlike a lot of instrument inventors, actually made some great music with it.  He created multi-track recording, paving the way for…… everything.  Mike Oldfield, The Beatles, Arcade Fire, Brian Eno, you name it, they all…

Echo Location: The Sound of Battlestar Galactica

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090812.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS One Last  Farewell to the Best Frakkin’ Sci-Fi Show on Television There is an audio version of this blog that is a real trip.  You can hear it here. A couple of years ago I produced a fun interview with Bear McCreary about his soundtrack to Battlestar…

Acoustic Guitar Madness: Guitar Republic Wants You

Driving in this morning, I was thinking to myself that I was getting a little tired of the solo acoustic guitar thing.   But when I popped up Echoesspace today, I found a friend request from Guitar Republic that got the strings popping again.  They are a new Italian guitar supergroup doing the California Guitar Trio…

Will Ackerman Then & Now: 5 Best CDs

Five Best Will Ackerman CDs There are a few people of whom I can say, if not for them, I wouldn’t be here.  And that’s the case with Will Ackerman.  He founded Windham Hill Records, still a cornerstone of the music you hear on Echoes.  That would probably be enough, but he also launched the…

Echo Location: Qntal’s Medieval Electronica

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090805.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSQntal get’s Medieval on your ass with a heavenly voice and entrancing atmospheres. You can hear an audio version of this blog with Qntal’s music here. When you think about gothic rock, it’s usually images of post-punk bands like Peter Murphy, Bauhaus and Sisters of Mercy that come…