Month: June 2010

5 Best from Afro Celt Sound System.

https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-Afrocelts-Icons.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS#15 of 20 Icons of Echoes: Afro Celt Sound System Afro Celt Sound System are one of the defining exponents of world fusion and their sound magic is as potent now as it was nearly 15 years ago when they released their debut album.    It’s not hard picking…

Wednesday, June 30th-Echoes Program 1026C

Wednesday, June 30th Echoes Program 1026C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Tom Middleton St. Ives Bay Lifetracks 0:06:00 Carmen Rizzo Passing By Looking Through Leaves 0:10:58 Eitan Reiter My Window Places I Miss That I Haven’t Been To 0:15:35 Brian Keane Below the Deck Into the Deep 0:18:22…

Tuesday, June 29th-Echoes Program 1026B

Tuesday, June 29th Echoes Program 1026B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Darin Schaffer Ladders Observatory: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Vol. 11 (v/a)* 0:06:00 Antoine DuFour To Run in a Dream Convergences 0:10:08 Bruce Kaphan Senbazuru Hybrid 0:12:31 Brian Keane Water Journey Into the Deep 0:18:23 Carbon Based Lifeforms…

Monday, June 28th-Echoes Program 1026A

Monday, June 28th and the weekend of July 3rd Echoes Program 1026A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Zero One bu_iSt pSy-fI 0:06:00 Carmen Rizzo Strada Looking Through Leaves 0:09:35 Arc Bliss Plane Church 0:22:50 Ketil Bjornstad Remembrance VI Remembrance 0:29:00 break Second Half Hour 0:30:00 Interview: Atomic Skunk…

Friday, June 25th-Echoes Program 1017B

Friday, June 25th Echoes Program 1017B Dream Guitars Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Michael Brook Ocean Motion Hybrid 0:06:00 Robin Guthrie Sunflower Stories Sunflower Stories 0:10:34 Ulrich Schnauss Bluebird of Happiness (Mojave 3) Missing Deadlines 0:17:20 Hammock Breathturn Chasing After Shadows… Living with the Ghosts 0:23:08 Manual Issa…

Last Thoughts & Merit Awards for NEARfest 2010

Another NEARfest is over, and a festival I avoided for its first 6 years because it seemed too retro and nostalgic has become an annual event for me in the last six years.  NEARfest 2010 was one of the best, a great mix of old and new, nostalgic reunions  and edgy directions.  A tip of…

Thursday, June 24th-Echoes Program 1025D

Thursday, June 24th Echoes Program 1025D Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Digitonal Emberkreiss Save Your Light for Darker Days 0:06:00 Ronn McFarlane and Ayreheart A Day in November One Morning 0:08:50 Dorothee Munyaneza Urugamba Dorothee Munyaneza 0:13:35 Sysyphe Sinking Running Up That Hill 0:21:57 Carmen Rizzo Until You…

Wednesday, June 23rd-Echoes Program 1025C

Wednesday, June 23rd Echoes Program 1025C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Tony McManus Valse des Belugas The Maker’s Mark 0:06:00 Trevor Stewart & Earthlines Return to Prarie Earth  Dreamwalking 0:10:28 Lunasa Island Lake La Nua 0:15:16 Pan Electric Zumaware Conscious Pilot 0:22:28 Krusseldorf Teachings of Old Bohemian Groove…

NEARfest 2010 Finale: Eddie Jobson’s Cover Band

A Rock Orchestra playing the music of the Masters or A Glorified Tribute band. I was telling my friend that I thought it would be compelling  if some of these NEARfest bands would occasionally play  cover tunes, paying homage to the masters with modern interpretations.  As they say, be careful what you wish for, because…

Tuesday, June 22nd-Echoes Program 1025B

Tuesday, June 22nd Echoes Program 1025B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Jon Hopkins Elegiac Opalescent 0:06:00 Sunwrae Underneath Eavesdropping 0:14:27 Chris Conway/Chris Puleston The Seven Jewels Paradise Chillout (v/a)* 0:19:27 Carbon Based Lifeforms Polyritmi Interloper 0:29:00 break Second Half Hour 0:30:00 Interview: Bluetech 0:37:46 break 0:38:01 Bluetech Escape…