Month: October 2012

Post-Rock Dominates Echoes Top 25 for October.

Hans Christian & Harry Manx’s You Are the Music of My Silence leads the Echoes Top 25 for October.  Their dreamy Indian evocations, the Echoes CD of the Month for October, floats like a seagull above a roiling ocean of post & alt-rock bands in the Top Ten. Tycho, All India Radio, Balmorhea, Hammock, The…

Wednesday October 31st-Echoes Program 1244C

Program Descriptions | Homepage Wednesday October 31st Echoes Program 1244C An Echoes Halloween Welcome to the Terror Dome. We take you to the dark side of Echoes and a soundscape full of ghosts, spirits, and musical bumps in the night. Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Loreena McKennitt All…

Tuesday October 30th-Echoes Program 1244B

Program Descriptions | Homepage Tuesday October 30th Echoes Program 1244B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Lunatic Soul Impression V  Impressions 0:06:00 Nicholas Gunn Candle Dance  Thirty-One Nights 0:10:24 Rick Heizman Earth Cries Peace Hard to Reach Places 0:15:37 Happy Rhodes If Wishes Were Horses How Beggars Would Ride …

Monday October 29th-Echoes Program 1244A

Program Descriptions | Homepage Monday October 29th Echoes Program 1244A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Sounds from the Ground Ink Spots  Widerworld 0:06:00 Taken By Trees Horizon  Other Worlds 0:07:52 Bryan Carrigan Into Light  Windows 0:14:20 Azure Ray Scattered Like Leaves  As Above So Below 0:17:58 Tigerforest Crystalwater…

Reflect on WaterSky: Echoes November CD of the Month.

Hear music from Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy’s Watersky and an interview with the artists tonight, Monday 11/5  Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy are important figures in different music worlds.  Johnson came to renown as a modern instrumental keyboardist with a taste for Celtic music and a long-running partnership with Irish flutist Brian Dunning.  Keaggy…

Azure Ray’s Blue Moods-Echoes Podcast

Hear a podcast of the Echoes Interview with Azure Ray. In another time, Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink could’ve been conventional singer songwriters plucking guitars, but since their debut album as Azure Ray in 2001, there’s always been a richness to their arrangements that perfectly matched the wrap-around harmonies of their voices. “We’re feminists, so…

Weekend October 26th, 27th & 28th-Echoes Program 1243A

Program Descriptions | Homepage Weekend October 26th, 27th & 28th Echoes Program 1243A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Tosca Springer No Hassle 0:06:00 Vicki Richards Riding the Thermals She Vanishes 0:10:53 Tigerforest Crystalwater Rush Islands 0:14:57 The Tangent Project Signals In Between Fuse 0:23:02 Max Richter Infra 5…

Thursday October 25th-Echoes Program 1243D

Program Descriptions | Homepage Thursday October 25th Echoes Program 1243D New Music: Tigerforest & Aranis New music from an artist who records as Tigerforest from his album, Islands and something from the Belgian chamber rock group, Aranis. They’ve just released a new CD called Made in Belgium. Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name…

A New Age Shaman’s Last Dance.

Gabrielle Roth passes at age 71. Gabrielle Roth wouldn’t have won any musician polls.  She didn’t really play anything beyond some percussion.  Yet she was responsible for nearly two dozen albums over the last 20 years or so. She referred to herself as an urban shaman and with the floating personnel of her ensemble, Gabrielle…

Wednesday October 24th-Echoes Program 1243C

Program Descriptions | Homepage Wednesday October 24th Echoes Program 1243C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Banco de Gaia Terra Om  Memories Dreams Reflections 0:06:00 Nik Bartsch’s Ronin Modul 48  Live 0:14:11 Little People Aldgate Patterns  We Are But Hunks of Wood 0:21:55 Jon Schmidt & Steven Sharp Nelson…