Month: September 2012

Weekend September 28th, 29th & 30th-Echoes Program 1239A

Program Descriptions | Homepage Weekend September 28th, 29th & 30th Echoes Program 1239A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Gary Numan Not the Love we Dream Of Dead Son Rising 0:06:00 Helen Jane Long The Aviators Intervention 0:10:30 Ballake Sissoko/Vincent Segal Mako Mady Chamber Music 0:15:58 BJ Cole Sublime…

Eastern Moods for Echoes October CD of the Month

You can trace many movements in modern music back to The Beatles, and they are at the roots of Hans Christian and Harry Manx.  Not The Beatles of “She Loves You,” but the eastern-influenced Beatles of “Tomorrow Never Knows” and especially “Within You Without You.” Musicians like the German-born Christian and English-born Manx were inspired…

Dead Can Dance Rise to Echoes Top 25 for September.

Dead Can Dance resurrects themselves to the top of the the Echoes Top 25 for September with their album, Anastasis.   Anastasis means resurrection and it was the Echoes CD of the Month for September.  Sounds from the Ground returns with a surprising showing at number two with their album,  Widerworld and a couple of albums…

Thursday September 27th-Echoes Program 1239D

Program Descriptions Thursday September 27th Echoes Program 1239D New Music: The XX and Jeff Pearce On the next Echoes we hear the downtempo dream pop of The XX. They have a new CD called Coexist. We’ll also hear new music from Jeff Pearce who’s CD, In the Season of Fading Light is painted in feather…

Brian Eno Goes Towards the Light

No, Brian Eno didn’t die.  His new album is called Lux which is a measurement of light.   Due out in November, it’s some deep ambient music closer in style to Music for Airports than anything recent.  No music out yet, but….. The music is actually based on and installation he has at the Great…

Andy Williams Crosses Moon River to the Heavens

I always thought of “Moon River” as the first space music song.  Even in 1961, when Andy Williams recorded it, I knew this was music from another era, but something about Johnny Mercer’s lyrics and Henry Mancini’s sweeping orchestration always suggested something beyond this earth to me.   Just now I had a new spacey ambient…

Wednesday September 26th-Echoes Program 1239C

Program Descriptions Wednesday September 26th Echoes Program 1239C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Low Roar Friends Make Garbage (Good Friends Take it Out) Low Roar 0:06:00 Thomas Newman The Chimes at Midnight  The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 0:08:28 Nathan Speir This Heart Endures A Day of Poetry 0:15:33…

Tuesday September 25th-Echoes Program 1239B

Program Descriptions | Homepage Tuesday September 25th Echoes Program 1239B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Beach House Lazuli  Bloom 0:06:00 Hans Christian and Harry Manx Every Day Forever  You Are the Music of My Silence  0:14:22 Noom Café Surfing Beyond Time 0:20:27 Azure Ray Scattered Like Leaves  As…

Monday September 24th-Echoes Program 1239A

Program Descriptions | Homepage Monday September 24th Echoes Program 1239A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Gary Numan Not the Love we Dream Of  Dead Son Rising 0:06:00 Helen Jane Long The Aviators  Intervention 0:10:30 Ballake Sissoko/Vincent Segal Mako Mady  Chamber Music 0:15:58 BJ Cole Sublime 1: Awakening  Transparent…

Weekend September 21st, 22nd & 23rd-Echoes Program 1238A

Program Descriptions | Homepage Weekend September 21st, 22nd & 23rd Echoes Program 1238A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Jon Hopkins Elegiac Opalescent 0:06:00 The Watermark High Maybe Tomorrow Everything Will Be Different Slow Motion Clarity 0:11:09 Nathan Speir This Heart Endures A Day of Poetry 0:18:21 Sorma Satie’s…