Month: March 2013

Banco De Gaia Mythic Sound

Hear interview with Banco De Gaia in Echoes Podcast. Banco de Gaia fired one of the first shots of ethno-techno sounds into the previously electronic dominated rave culture of the early 1990s.  Since then, he’s built a body of work by sampling the body’s of work from other musicians as well as sounds from the…

Weekend March 29th, 30th, & 31st-Echoes Program 1313A

Program Descriptions Weekend March 29th, 30th, & 31st Echoes Program 1313A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Moby Blue Paper Hotel 0:06:01 Claudio Scolari Colors of Red Island Colors of Red Island 0:13:08 Shaman’s Dream The Way Through Prana Pulse 0:19:58 Harper Simon Leaves of Golden Brown Division Street…

Ólafur Arnalds’ Winter Chill

ÓLAFUR ARNALDS’ FOR NOW I AM WINTER ECHOES APRIL CD OF THE MONTH Hear Ólafur Arnalds talk about For Now I Am Winter on Tuesday May 13 on Echoes Hear this review in the Echoes Podcast  Icelandic artists are subjected to many clichés: most commonly that their music reflects the frozen north, land of glaciers,…

Vangelis at 70

10 Essential Vangelis CDs Celebrate the 70th birthday of Vangelis, composer of Chariots of Fires tonight on Echoes. In 2009 I posted this list of 10 Essential Vangelis CDs when we ran our Vangelis: Then & Now segment.  Tonight, Thursday, March 28, on the eve of his 70th birthday, you can hear a profile of…

Thursday March 28th-Echoes Program 1313D

Program Descriptions Thursday March 28th Echoes Program 1313D Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Vangelis L’Enfant Opera Savage 0:06:00 Frank Crespo A Light at the End  A Perfect Circle 0:10:10 Wall Shoestring  Shoestring 0:13:45 Lunasa Morning Nightcap Lunasa with the RTE Concert Orchestra 0:17:58 Jap Jap and Morgenfish Wind…

Ludovico Einaudi Leads Echoes March Madness 25

I don’t follow March Basketball Madness much, but I do like March Music Madness and it’s been a great month for music on Echoes beginning with our number one CD, In A Time Lapse by Ludovico Einaudi.  It was our March CD of the Month.   If Ludovico Einaudi represents the best of Ambient Chamber Music,…

Wednesday March 27th-Echoes Program 1313C

Program Descriptions Wednesday March 27th Echoes Program 1313C New Music: Sleeping Forest & Solar Fields You’ve heard of Terminator: Rise of the Machines, well Sleeping Forest has a new album out called Rise of Nature. We’ll hear its ambient moods along with a new CD by Sweden’s Solar Fields, with some more of their deep…

Tuesday March 26th-Echoes Program 1313B

Program Descriptions Tuesday March 26th Echoes Program 1313B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Trifonic Lies  Emergence 0:06:00 Lunasa The Last Pint Lunasa with the RTE Concert Orchestra 0:10:05 Anthony Philips and Andrew Skeet Under the Infinite Sky  Seventh Heaven 0:13:10 Ryan Ferreira 2511 #2 Music for Images 0:14:35…

Monday March 25th-Echoes Program 1313A

Program Descriptions Monday March 25th Echoes Program 1313A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Moby Blue Paper  Hotel 0:06:01 Claudio Scolari Colors of Red Island  Colors of Red Island  0:13:08 Shaman’s Dream The Way Through  Prana Pulse 0:19:58 Harper Simon Leaves of Golden Brown  Division Street 0:24:41 Painted Raven…

The Mellow is Over for Sigur Rós.

Sigur Rós  has announced a new CD for June, Kveikur recorded with their new Trio configuration.  Judging from this first song, symphonic slab, crushing distressed bass and exhortation vocals, the mellow of their previous album Valtari is over.  There’s even a conventional hook chorus on this one. ~John Diliberto ((( echoes ))) Sign up for…