Month: June 2011

Thursday, June 30th-Echoes Program 1126D

Thursday, June 30th Echoes Program 1126D New music: Saul Stokes and Adrian Legg It’s new electronic music from Saul Stokes.  He’s an idiosyncratic artist who builds many of his own instruments and uses them to make the sprung melodies of his new album, Sleek Nucleus.  We also hear Adrian Legg re-recording an old tune. Start…

Winterlight Melts Echoes June Top 25

Winterlight’s Hope Dies Last leads Echoes Top 25 for June The sun is shining and it’s in the 90s in the land of Echoes, but Winterlight didn’t melt under the heat as it leads the Echoes Top 25 this month.   His album, Hope Dies Last was the Echoes CD of the Month for June.  That…

Wednesday, June 29th-Echoes Program 1126C

Wednesday, June 29th Echoes Program 1126C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Billy McLaughlin Helm’s Place  Fingerdance 0:06:00 Bluetech 667 (Kaya Scintilla Remix)  Rainforest Reverberation 0:11:17 Bodhi Crimea III  Trans Ukraine 0:16:32 Air Alone in Kyoto  Talkie Walkie 0:20:39 David Cullen Portland Harbor  Guitar Travels 0:23:53 Aaron White and…

Tuesday, June 28th-Echoes Program 1126B

Tuesday, June 28th Echoes Program 1126B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Frank Van Bogaert Earth Geographic 0:06:00 The Civil Wars The Violet Hour  Barton Hollow 0:09:17 Michael Stearns Spanish Twilght Floating Whispers 0:13:24 Adrian Legg Tracy’s Big Moment Slow Guitar 0:19:33 The Future Sound of London Go Tell…

Monday, June 27th-Echoes Program 1126A

Monday, June 27th and the weekend of July 2nd Echoes Program 1126A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Aurah The Calling/The City Resonance: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Vol. 13 (v/a)* 0:06:00 Penguin Café That, Not That  A Matter of Life 0:10:01 Atomic Skunk Ghosts and Angels  Alchemy 0:15:41…

Friday, June 24th-Echoes Program 1107B

Friday, June 24th Echoes Program 1107B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Urban Nature Indra  Coming Home 0:06:00 The Forefathers Evening Rain  Aurora 0:10:21 Dead Beat Project Checkmate  R’Evoluton 0:18:15 Tom Powell Just a Moment Scattergathering 0:29:00 break Second Half Hour 0:30:00 Living Room Concert: Pierre Bensusan Pierre Bensusan…

Moby @ Moogfest 2011

Moby has just been added to the already impressive line-up of Moogfest 2011.  He’ll be playing with a full band.  His shows in 2009 were stunning.  (See review)  In addition, they’ve added the Lunz Project, which is the ambient chamber music collaboration between Tim Story and Hans-Joachim Roedelius who is already on the bill with…

Thursday, June 23rd-Echoes Program 1125D

Thursday, June 23rd Echoes Program 1125D Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Klangwelt In Balance Weltweit 0:06:00 Robin Guthrie The Blue Book  Emeralds 0:11:19 The Nels Cline Singers You Noticed  Initiate 0:13:56 Michael de Salem Tribal Interlude  Something Getting Wrong 0:18:02 Ian Boddy and Parallel Worlds Return  Exit Strategy…

New Eno Produced Track from Seun Kuti & Egypt 80

Brian Eno is apparently out producing African music again.  He did a great job with Geoffrey Oreyema and Baaba Maal many years ago. This time he’s paired with Seun Kuti & Egypt 80.  I can’t say I hear much of an Eno-effect here and you’re unlikely to hear it on Echoes, but it’s a pretty…

Wednesday, June 22nd-Echoes Program 1125C

Wednesday, June 22nd Echoes Program 1125C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Forastiere Rifrazioni Refractions: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Vol. 12 (v/a)* 0:06:00 Colin Vallon Trio Home Rruga 0:09:53 Moby The Violent Bear It Away  Destroyed 0:16:41 Radio Massacre International Open City City21 0:20:15 Chronos Towards the Light…