Echoes explores the chilled world of music from Scandinavia with electronic sounds from Norway, dream pop from Denmark, downtempo electronics from Sweden and ambient chamber music from Iceland. Iceland’s Ólafur Arnalds and Sigur Ros; Denmark’s Agnes Obel and Manual, Norway’s Terje Rypdal and Green Isac; Sweden’s Solar Fields and more. Turn out the lights. The…
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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,…
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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…
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Sigur Rós UnChilled
After their extremely chilled and ambient album, Valtari, Sigur Rós are apparently getting ready to channel Nine Inch Nails on a forthcoming album. They have a short but tantalizing video out called “Breakout” that not only reveals a more dark and aggressive side, but provides more visual interest in 90 seconds than all of their…
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Top Ten Albums of 2012 by John Diliberto.
Deep moods and a couple of quirky releases highlight John Diliberto’s Top Ten Albums for 2012. 2012 will be a year marked by really good albums, but not necessarily groundbreaking, earth shattering or definitive works that place any one release ahead of the pack. There are a few albums I could’ve picked as number one,…
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New Sigur Rós Crosses Ambient Ocean.
There’s a new Sigur Rós album coming out May 29, Valtari. There music has been all over HBO’s recently cancelled “Luck.” Here’s the first video from it for the song : “Ekki múkk” It gives new meaning to ambient video. Watch the ship come in. ~© 2012 John Diliberto ((( echoes ))) Join us on Facebook…
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Hype Machine Building for New Sigur Ros Live!
Okay, that’s a little cynical, but the whole leaking out of free tracks, tantalizing fans with little tidbits and generally treating us like greyhounds chasing rabbits is getting a bit tedious. But then this is the iconic, beyond hip band, Sigur Rós who have released some of the most idiosyncratic and uniguely intoxicating music in…
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Metheny Mécanique and Karaoke Koncerts
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-PatMetheny2010.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhat’s the difference between a concert and Karaoke? The specter of plug ‘n’ play concerts has reared its pre-wired head again. I’ve been confronted with another spate of contrasting concerts. On the one hand, there’s music that’s played live and in the moment and on the other, music…
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Kronos Quartet-Always Electric
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20100106.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSKronos Quartet Began plugged in and they’re still attuned to the wired world. You can hear an Audio Version of thius Blog with music from Kronos. In 1980 the Kronos Quartet did something string quartets don’t do. They played Jimi Hendrix‘s “Purple Haze.” Some 30 years later, they’re…
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Echo Location: Nordic Ambiences
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20081210.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSBjörk and Abba aren’t the only exports from Iceland and Sweden. (You can hear an audio version of this Blog, with music.) As we close out 2008 and head into the chill of winter, I bring you two albums from Nordic territories to chill you even more. Scandinavian…