Month: February 2014

Weekend February 28th, March 1st & 2nd-Echoes Program 1409A

Homepage Weekend February 28th, March 1st & 2nd Echoes Program 1409A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Indians Bird Somewhere Else 0:06:00 All India Radio Morning Drops (2014 Remix) Fall Remixes 0:09:53 Krusseldorf Circuit Boarding Fractal World 0:16:08 Aurah Take My Breath Away Summon the Sky 0:19:25 Blow Up…

Thursday February 27th-Echoes Program 1409D

Homepage Thursday February 27th Echoes Program 1409D New Music: Death Vessel & Aurah New music from Death Vessel, they may sound like a heavy metal band, but instead they create a spacey dreampop. We’ll also new music by Aurah, the Swiss duo who have been making ethereal music for years, from their new album Summon…

Guitar Splendor in Echoes Top 25

Erik Wøllo and Mark McGuire bring guitars back to Echoes Top 25 Erik Wøllo’s February CD of the Month, Timelines,  leads Echoes Top 25.  It’s a brilliant recording of layered guitar dreamscapes.  Following close behind is our soon-to-be March CD of the Month, Mark McGuire’s Progressive Rock epic, Along the Way.  You’ll be hearing more about…

Pure Bathing Culture Live on Echoes

Pure Bathing Culture

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…

Wednesday February 26th-Echoes Program 1409C

Homepage Wednesday February 26th Echoes Program 1409C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Marissa Nadler 1923  July 0:06:00 Larkenlyre Songbird in the Morning  Music of the Extraordinary Voyages  0:10:25 Beck Morning  Morning Phase 0:15:39 Jose Luis Serrano Esteban Inner Light  A New Horizon Special Edition  0:19:02 Temples Fragment’s Light …

Coldplay Spaces Out

Seems like Coldplay is really spacing out on this new song called “Midnight.” They haven’t released any info about it except the video director, Mary Wigmore. But this is definitely as ambient as pop music can get.  And singer Chris Martin seems ready to join the falsetto forces of Bon Iver, et al. John Diliberto…

James Hood Hanging on a Hang

Moodswings Maven Trades Synthesizers for the Hang One of my favorite albums of the 21st century remains the CD Horizontal by Moodswings.  It was a perfect CD of ambient expanses, melodically tuned and atmospherically vast.  The man behind that album was James Hood.  After a lifetime in music, including playing drums with The Pretenders, he…

Tuesday, February 25th-Echoes Program 1409B

Homepage Tuesday, February 25th Echoes Program 1409B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Solas A Tune for Roan  The Turning Tide 0:06:00 Goldfrapp Thea  Tales of Us 0:10:38 Hungry Lucy Pulse of the Earth  Pulse of the Earth 0:15:32 Bear’s Den My Lair  Without/Within 0:20:46 David Helpling & Jon…

Priscilla Ahn Live on Echoes.

Singer-songwriter Priscilla Ahn Plays Live on Echoes Tonight. Hear another child of Echoes tonight when Priscilla Ahn plays live.  The singer-songwriter grew up in Central Pennsylvania where she listened to Echoes on WITF in Harrisburg and WXPN in Philadelphia.  She’s in LA now where she has been crafting introspective personal songs like “Dream” from her…

Monday February 24th-Echoes Program 1409A

Homepage Monday February 24th Echoes Program 1409A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Indians Bird  Somewhere Else 0:06:00 All India Radio Morning Drops (2014 Remix)  Fall Remixes  0:09:53 Krusseldorf Circuit Boarding  Fractal World 0:16:08 Aurah Take My Breath Away  Summon the Sky 0:19:25 Blow Up Hollywood Where Does the…