Hear our interview with Lúnasa in the Echoes Podcast The Celtic crazed waned over a decade ago, but Celtic music, like Country & Western and Jazz, never goes away. Lúnasa are a generation removed from the first Celtic renaissance in the 1970s, but that’s the sound that infuses their take on traditional Irish music. And…
Month: June 2013
Best Of
Echoes Top 25-Rachel Zeffira Shines in June.
Echoes Top 25 for June features Dream-Pop, Ambient Chamber Music and Space Music. The Echoes Top 25 is led by singer-songwriter Rachel Zeffira whose album, The Deserters was the Echoes CD of the Month. This chamber pop singer is joined by several other vocal ensembles in the Top 25 including Karl Hyde, Olivier Libaux, Seven Saturdays…
Playlists
Weekend June 28th, 29th, & 30th-Echoes Program 1319B
Program Descriptions Weekend June 28th, 29th, & 30th Echoes Program 1319B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Tristeza L’Accident Heureux Paisajes 0:06:00 Majeure Geneva Spur Solar Maximum 0:15:43 Delerium Frostbite (feat. Anna-Lynne Williams) Music Box Opera 0:21:23 David and Steve Gordon Ultra Lounge Yoga Moods 0:29:00 break Second Half…
Program Highlights
Lloyd Cole & Hans-Joachim Roedelius.
It’s A Meeting of an 80s’s Rocker and 70′ Electronic Pioneer. Tonight on Echoes, Cluster‘s (or Qluster) Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Lloyd Cole talk about their electronic collaboration. In alternative rock circles, German bands from the 1980s are considered pioneers of sound. Kraftwerk, Can, Neu, Harmonia and Cluster are consistently name-checked by everyone from David Bowie…
Playlists
Thursday June 27th-Echoes Program 1326D
Program Descriptions Thursday June 27th Echoes Program 1326D Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Grouse Interval Heads 0:06:00 Big Scary Phil Collins Not Art 0:09:41 Lex Nichols Ryan’s Pond The Long Road 0:12:32 Lucas Creswell-Rost Looking Under Stones Two Halves 0:15:40 Leo Kottke When Shrimps Learn to Whistle Dreams…
Best Of
Best of Echoes 2013…So Far.
Ambient Chamber Music leads The Best of Echoes 2013 ….So Far At the halfway point of the year, I look back on some of the albums that rise above the crowd. And this year it’s been harder than most to narrow it down to the 25 CDs you’ll see below, let alone picking a number…
Playlists
Wednesday June 26th-Echoes Program 1326C
Program Descriptions Wednesday June 26th Echoes Program 1326C The Best of 2013… So Far At the midway point of the year we pick our 25 favorite Echoes CDs so far from 2013. See if your picks are on there! Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Ulrich Schnauss The Weight…
Playlists
Tuesday June 25th-Echoes Program 1326B
Program Descriptions Tuesday June 25th Echoes Program 1326B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Seven Saturdays Eleven Eleven Seven Saturdays 0:06:00 Liftoff Feathered Up Sunday Morning Airplay 0:11:03 Amatorski The King Same Stars We Shared 0:13:05 Todd Boston Celtic Heart Touched by the Sun 0:18:21 Amy Speace Perfume How…
Living Room Concerts
Rachel Zeffira – Chamber Pop Live on Echoes
Hear Rachel Zeffira play live tonight on Echoes. She turns her opera-trained soprano into a caressing hush; mixes circus organ with a song about suicide; and uses oboe arrangements that sound like the The Left Banke’s “Pretty Ballerina.” That’s only part of the allure in Rachel Zeffira’s debut album, The Deserters. Tonight you can hear…
Playlists
Monday June 24th-Echoes Program 1319B
Program Descriptions Monday June 24th Echoes Program 1319B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Tristeza L’Accident Heureux Paisajes 0:06:00 Majeure Geneva Spur Solar Maximum 0:15:43 Delerium Frostbite (feat. Anna-Lynne Williams) Music Box Opera 0:21:23 David and Steve Gordon Ultra Lounge Yoga Moods 0:29:00 break Second Half Hour 0:30:00…