Month: August 2010

Tuesday, August 10th-Echoes Program 1024A

Tuesday, August 10th Echoes Program 1024A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Fernwood August Sangita 0:06:00 Antoine DuFour To Run in a Dream Convergences 0:10:07 Synaesthesia A Parlaiment of Rooks Synaesthesia 0:17:00 Rho Laserfaced Glass Memories 0:24:27 Bruce Kaphan Loops for Larry Hybrid 0:29:00 break Second Half Hour 0:30:00…

All is Neu Again- Michael Rother & Hallogallo Live

NEU! MARCHES BACK UPDATE: Hear a live performance and the Echoes Interview with Michael Rother at end. It was a mesmerizing evening of non-stop driving groove and ecstatic electric guitar when Michael Rother brought in his Hallogallo 2010 group to Philadelphia last night at International House. Michael Rother was a founding member of the German…

Monday, August 9th-Echoes Program 1032A

Monday, August 9th Echoes Program 1032A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Adrian Legg Ghosts in the Hills Passages: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Vol. 10 (v/a)* 0:06:00 Goldmund Grass Rides Famous Places 0:08:28 Dave Preston Blind Lovers Hand in Hand Soundtrack for Motion 0:13:51 Ubud Potu Ubud Tiga…

Hanging with Portico Quartet

I just finished an interview with Portico Quartet, the London band that’s part of a new generation of jazz ensembles that includes  Nik Bartsch’s Ronin, Tord Gustavsen, Brad Mehldau, The Bad Plus and the late E.S.T.   Portico is a fully collective trio, but the instrument getting a lot of attention is the Hang drum,  made…

Friday, August 6th-Echoes Program 1022C

Friday, August 6th Echoes Program 1022C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Rob Essers A Walk Through Raincolors 0:06:00 Colm Mac Con Iomaire The Red Road The Hares Corner 0:08:51 Ralph Towner/Paolo Fresu Punta Giara Chiaroscuro 0:15:00 Fitkinwall Battery People Still Warm 0:21:46 Irina Mikhailova Song of Laya Night…

Thursday, August 5th-Echoes Program 1031D

Thursday, August 5th Echoes Program 1031D New music: Zoe Keating It’s new music for looping cello by Zoe Keating.  A former member of Rasputina, she’s had a big year in 2010.  She gave birth to her first child in May and now has a new solo album, Into the Trees. Start Time Group Name Song…

Two Essential Lisa Gerrard CDs (+3)

Lisa Gerrard – The Sound of the Spirit: One of 20 Icons of Echoes. Lisa Gerard was the possessed vocalist with Dead Can Dance, the enigmatic group that channeled a world of sound through their electro-ethnic arrangements and the incantatory voice of Gerrard. Gerrard sings in a hybrid supralingua that sounds like a real language,…

Klaus Schulze Turns 63

A Sultan of Synthesizers 63 isn’t a very significant birthday,  but any time we can celebrate the music of Klaus Schulze, we should do it.   Born August 4, 1947, Klaus Schulze remains the John Coltrane of electronic music.   It’s been nearly four decades since his solo debut, Irrlicht, and he continues creating CD length…

Wednesday, August 4th-Echoes Program 1031C

Wednesday, August 4th Echoes Program 1031C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Gareth Pearson Paranoid Android Urban Echoes, Vol. 1 0:06:00 Tierra Negra and Muriel Anderson Summer Morning Rain New World Flamenco 0:09:37 Hammock Still Secrets Remaining  Chasing After Shadows…Living with the Ghosts (Outtakes) 0:16:45 Dean and Britta I…

Tuesday, August 3rd-Echoes Program 1031

Tuesday, August 3rd Echoes Program 1031B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Bodhi Crimea III Trans Ukraine 0:06:00 The Charlie North Michael e Project Chinese Whispers Secrets Like These 0:12:12 Dave Preston Blind Lovers Hand in Hand Soundtrack for Motion 0:17:40 Rob Martino Differential One Cloud 0:23:05 Zoe Keating…