DAVY JONES SINGS HIS LAST HEY HEY Davy Jones (30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012) passes at 66 from a reported heart attack. I dug Mickey Dolenz more and he definitely got the best songs, and I appreciated Michael Nesmith more later on, but in 1965, when I was in 6th grade, I loved…
Month: February 2012
CD of the Month
Air’s Safari to the Moon.
The Echoes March CD of the Month: Air’s Le Voyage Dans La Lune Hear Air’s Le Voyage Dans La Lune featured on Echoes Monday March 5 The duo called Air is one the most influential acts to come out of France since Jean-Michel Jarre in the early 1970s. Their debut album, Moon Safari is an…
Playlists
Wednesday, February 29th-Echoes Program 1209C
Wednesday, February 29th Echoes Program 1209C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Melodies on Canvas Magen Melodies on Canvas 0:06:00 Broekhuis/Keller/Schonwalder The Gates of Kairuan Repelen 0:14:58 Liquid Stranger The Other Dreamers Cryogenic Encounters 0:21:02 California Guitar Trio Prelude Circulation Masterworks 0:23:45 Forrest York Travesty in Virgina Rainy Season…
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Tuesday, February 28th-Echoes Program 1209B
Tuesday, February 28th Echoes Program 1209B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Ubud Potu Tiga 0:06:00 Ravid Agua Ravid Hang 0:10:52 Redshift Shift to Blue Redshift: Wild 3 0:21:50 Martine Lund Hoel Sadly Missed Hidden Shore 0:27:08 Danny Elfman The Acid Trip Taking Woodstock (OST) 0:29:00 break Second…
Best Of
Slack-Key & Tapping Guitar Lead Echoes Top 25
Acoustic Guitars Dominate Echoes February Soundscape It’s been an electronic year so far, but for February, an acoustic guitar album by Pino Forastiere and a soundtrack dominated by Hawaiian Slack-Key guitar were all over Echoes Top 25 for February . Forastiere’s From 1-8 was the Echoes CD of the Month for February and it remains…
Playlists
Monday, February 27th-Echoes Program 1209A
Monday, February 27th and the weekend of March 3rd Echoes Program 1209A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Frank Smith Song for Day One (feat. Michael Manring) Hope Returns 0:06:00 Coyote Oldman Time Travelers Time Travelers 0:13:38 Mychael Danna A Feather for Your Soul Sirens 0:20:23 Tierra Negra and…
Playlists
Friday, February 24th-Echoes Program 1208E
Friday, February 24th Echoes Program 1208E Echoes at the Oscars It’s another walk down the red carpet of the 2012 Oscars as we survey music that’s both nominated and sounds that were snubbed by the Academy including the score to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First…
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Thursday, February 23rd-Echoes Program 1149C
Thursday, February 23rd Echoes Program 1149C New music: Northcape and Sergio Altamura We have some new electronic music from England when John Diliberto plays an artist who records as Northcape. His album is called Captured from Static which says a lot about his Boards of Canada-influenced music. We’ll also hear from Sergio Altamura, a…
Program Highlights, Reviews & Commentary
Rhian Sheehan vs Hammock
Rhian Sheehan is a wonderful ambient composer from New Zealand. His album, Standing in Silence was one of our favorites on Echoes a couple of years ago with his mixing of found sound and synthesizer cycles. He’s just collaborated with one of our favorite ambient guitar bands, Hammock, from Nashville. The original song is from…
Playlists
Wednesday, February 22nd-Echoes Program 1208C
Wednesday, February 22nd Echoes Program 1208C New music: Coyote Oldman and Charlotte Gainsbourg Ambient native flute pioneers Coyote Oldman return with a new CD of deep flute excursions called Time Travelers. We’re going French as we listen to something new by French singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, the daughter of French icon, Serge Gainsbourg. Start Time…