Philip Glass turns 75 Do you remember the first time you heard Philip Glass? It’s something that’s pretty hard to forget. For me it was Music with Changing Parts, a double LP released on the Chatham Square label in 1973. I heard it in 1974 at WXPN where it was on the essential listening list…
Month: January 2012
Playlists
Tuesday, January 31st-Echoes Program 1205B
Tuesday, January 31st Echoes Program 1205B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Cam Newton Accepting What You Can’t Change Oregon Outback 0:06:00 Stephen Bennett Tipping Point Further Beyond Six Strings (v/a)* 0:11:27 Vas Sevdama In the Garden of Souls 0:18:45 Ishq And Awake And Awake 0:26:30 Moby When…
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Monday, January 30th-Echoes Program 1205A
Monday, January 30th and the weekend of Feb. 4th Echoes Program 1205A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Carmen Rizzo Until You Find Another (feat. Shana Halligan) Looking Through Leaves 0:06:00 Tangerine Dream Convention of the 24 White Eagle 0:15:15 Liquid Stranger The Other Dreamers Cryogenic Encounters 0:21:17 …
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Friday, January 27th-Echoes Program 1136D
Homepage Friday, January 27th Echoes Program 1136D Music from Balmorhea and Pallers The ambient chamber group Balmorhea has a CD that was recorded live. We also take a listen to an ambient pop group called Pallers, they’re from Sweden and they bring an airy, mysterious sound to their music on album, Sea of Memories. Start…
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Thursday, January 26th-Echoes Program 1204D
Thursday, January 26th Echoes Program 1204D New music: Eric Tingstad and Richard Ashe Guitarist Eric Tingstad is best known as part of a duo with Nancy Rumbel, but on a new CD called Badlands he plays a lone gunslinger in country landscape. John Diliberto also brings us some melancholic electronics from Richard Ashe off…
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Wednesday, January 25th-Echoes Program 1204C
Wednesday, January 25th Echoes Program 1204C New music: California Guitar Trio and Kronos Quartet It’s classical music when the California Guitar Trio tackles compositions from the masters and Kronos Quartet has a powerful new album playing the meditative Mahleresque minimalism of Vladimir Martynov. Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour…
Reviews & Commentary
Revenge of the Oscars-Take That Reznor
The Oscars take their revenge this year on Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross for winning the Music (Original Score) category with their innovative and beautiful score to The Social Network. This year, no electronics, no creative and emotional use of sound, nothing that might for a moment be considered contemporary. Instead, Oscar whore (and I…
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Tuesday, January 24th-Echoes Program 1204B
Tuesday, January 24th Echoes Program 1204B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Andrew White The News from Madrid Guitarra Celtica 0:06:00 Tim Pacheco Of Wordless Realms (feat. Carole Belmore) Of Wordless Realms 0:11:03 Bill Frisell Disfarmer Theme Disfarmer 0:16:36 Low Roar Just a Habit Low Roar 0:19:52 Robert Rich…
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Monday, January 23rd-Echoes Program 1204A
Monday, January 23rd and the weekend of Jan. 28th Echoes Program 1204A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Bombay Dub Orchestra Strange Constellations 3 Cities 0:06:00 Tino Izzo The Magician’s Nephew Morning Scapes 0:09:51 Hans Christian Dark Night (Instrumental) Rumi Symphony 0:19:45 Vic Hennegan Patagonian Rain Echo Location: The…
Reviews & Commentary
Tangerine Dream Live at Moogfest
Is It Safe To Listen To Tangerine Dream Again? This might come a bit late but I’ve come across very little coverage about it since Moogfest 2011 at the end of October. Tangerine Dream headlined the festival and did a 2 hour show. Like many fans, I’ve become a bit inurred to the band. You…