Month: October 2009

Robin Guthrie’s Carousel: Echoes Nov. CD of the Month

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091028.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS1980s Shoegaze Guitar Icon Unfolds an Instrumental Opus You can hear an Audio version of this blog with Robin Guthrie’s music. You can read a complete review of Carousel here. As a member of the legendary new wave band, the Cocteau Twins, Robin Guthrie established a guitar sound…

Brian Eno: #1 Icon of Echoes

https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-BrianEno60.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFIVE CDS FOR AN ICON OF ECHOES: BRIAN ENO Listeners recently voted for the 20 Icons of Echoes and topping the poll by a wide margin was Brian Eno. A few years ago I did a blog called 3 Degrees of Separation from Brian Eno.  Actually, for most…

20 Icons of Echoes: Listener Poll

The Listeners Have Spoken with their 20 Favorite Echoes Artists. The results are in from our 20th Anniversary Listener Poll and we’ve got your 20 favorite Echoes artists for 20 years of Echoes. The list skews heavily towards older acts.  Of the 20 artists, only four began recording during the Echoes years.  Moby and Mark…

Urban Nature’s World Fusion: Echo Location

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091021.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe Perils of  Growing Up Echoes with Urban Nature Ramesh and I both grew up listening to Echoes and I remember being a teenager and listening to Echoes as I’d fall asleep at night.  And so being exposed to Windham Hill and I’d go into the record store…

Carmen Rizzo & Huun Huur Tu: Electronica Throat Singing

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSTuvan throat Singers Huun Huur Tu get electrified by Carmen Rizzo. You can hear an audio version of this blog, with music, here. In a New York hotel room,  Bapa Sayan is singing in a low guttural moan that sounds like gorillas gargling.  He does this in a…

200 CDs for 20 Years of Echoes

Loreena McKennitt, BT & Ludovico Einaudi Top Listener Poll For the next two weeks on Echoes you’ll be hearing the 200 CDs that you voted for in our 20th Anniversary Poll.  Surprises? Definitely at the top.  We expected Loreena McKennitt to place very high in the poll, but we certainly didn’t expect her to take…

Echoes Top 25 for September: Fernwood Heads List

Fernwood tops the Echoes Top 25 for September with their CD of the Month, Sangita September was another strong month for new music on Echoes, led by the second album from Fernwood, Sangita. I wrote about this group and their global Americana chamber music in my September CD of the Month review. Interestingly, the top…

Echoes CD of the Month: Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy’s Frio Suite

https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/JohnsonKeaggyEL.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSKeyboardist Jeff Johnson and Guitarist Phil Keaggy converge on a CD of Pastoral Chamber Ambiences You can hear an Audio Review of Frio Suite, with Music here. Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy are musicians from different musical worlds. Jeff Johnson is best known for his many Celtic and…