Akara’s The World Beyond Echoes October CD of the Month Hear it tonight on Echoes. With the sound of Chinese cymbals, Akara opens their second album with appropriately-titled “Unlocking the Portal” taking us to The World Beyond. It’s their second album of music inspired by “the luminous beings,” and it’s not long before those beings…
Month: September 2013
Playlists
Monday September 30th-Echoes Program 1340A
Homepage Monday September 30th Echoes Program 1340A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Hem Last Call Departure and Farewell 0:06:00 Agnes Obel Fuel to Fire Aventine 0:11:22 Philip Glass Opening Glassworks 0:17:41 Aoife O’Donovan I’m Alone Fossils 0:21:16 Al Jewer and Andy Mitran Sky Mountain Music of the Earth …
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Pure Bathing Culture Live on Echoes
Portland’s Pure Bathing Culture Plays Live on Echoes Tonight. Tonight on Echoes, it’s dream pop from Portland when we hear Pure Bathing Culture playing live. The band is fronted by singer and keyboardist Sarah Versprille and guitarist Daniel Hindman. On their album, Moon Tides they merge 60s girl group harmonies with 80s electro-pop in a…
Interview Podcast
Azam Ali & Loga R. Torkian on Echoes Podcast
Hear Azam Ali & Loga R. Torkian interviewed on the ECHOES PODCAST Azam Ali and Loga R. Torkian used to be in two different bands. Torkian played guitar in the Persian fusion band, Axiom of Choice and Ali was half of the world fusion duo, Vas. They got together romantically and musically and formed the…
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Weekend September 27th, 28th, & 29th-Echoes Program 1339A
Homepage Weekend September 27th, 28th, & 29th Echoes Program 1339A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Vas The Inward Coil In the Garden of Souls 0:06:00 Agnes Obel Riverside Philharmonics 0:09:44 Loner Already Numb Western Sci Fi 0:13:14 Moby Wait For Me Wait for Me 0:17:21 Alu Circus Cosmos…
Best Of
Echoes September Top 25
Darshan Ambient Leads Echoes Top 25 for September Little Things does big things on Echoes Top 25 as Darshan Ambient’s CD of the Month rises to the head of the pack in September. Azam Ali & Loga R. Torkian aren’t far behind with the Lamentation of Swans, an album that is still revealing itself after…
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Bombay Dub Orchestra Returns
Bombay Dub Orchestra & Emiliana Torrini Release first new albums in five years. It’s been a longtime waiting for new music by east-west-electronica mavens, Bombay Dub Orchestra. The team of Garry Hughes & Andrew T. MacKay created some of the definitive world fusion music of the new millennium with their self-titled debut and 3 Cities,…
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Thursday September 26th-Echoes Program 1339D
Homepage Thursday September 26th Echoes Program 1339D New Music: Tired Pony & Naming Ghosts Featuring new music by Tired Pony, a new band, that includes Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol and Peter Buck from REM and from Naming Ghosts, a new electronic band from Cincinnati that was ladled out of an older electronic project, Mind…
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New Moby, Tired Pony, Cranium Fizz
The Mind Bubbles Tonight on Echoes Moby has a new CD out called Innocents that finds him pursuing the more personal style of song-writing he’s explored on albums like Destroyed and Wait for Me. He collaborates with several singers including UK singer, Cold Specks who we’ll hear tonight. Tired Pony is the semi-supergroup headed up…
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Wednesday September 25th-Echoes Program 1339C
Homepage Wednesday September 25th Echoes Program 1339C New Music: Walking Shapes & Richard Bone If you can’t get enough zombies in movies and TV, we have a track called “Zombies” by the band Walking Shapes, and new music by Richard Bone that taps the retro-pop side of German electronic music. It’s called Cranium Fizz. Start…