Month: October 2014

10 Scary Songs for Halloween

The annual Echoes Halloween show is one of the easiest thematic programs to put together every year. There is just so much great music based around themes of horror, mysticism and alien adventures. The only problem is fitting new tracks in when there are so many great perennial tracks we like to play.  A few…

25 Icons of Echoes

Echoes Listeners Pick 25 Icons of EchoesAs we celebrate 25 Years of Echoes, listeners voted for their favorite Echoes Artists. Herewith, 25 ICONS OF ECHOES Hear them all tonight on Echoes. 1   Steve Roach 2   Brian Eno 3   Dead Can Dance/Lisa Gerrard 4   Robert Rich 5   Tangerine Dream 6   Patrick O’Hearn 7   Loreena McKennitt 8  …

Jack Bruce, Voice of Cream, Gone at 71

When I heard of Jack Bruce’s passing, the first thing I did wasn’t to grab one of his brilliant albums with Cream, but to pull his first two solo albums (absenting the free-jazz Things We Like album) off the shelf. While Eric Clapton retrenched into rootsy American rock after the dissolution of Cream and Blind…