Philadelphia’s Concert scene is heating up as the weather cools down. Here’s some of the concert appearances in the next 9 days with a lot of Echoes artists coming in. See Ryuichi Sakamoto listing below to win a free pair of tix and his new double CD Playing the Piano/Out of Noise. RECOMMENDED THIS WEEK…
Month: October 2010
Playlists
Friday, October 8th-Echoes Program 1027B
Friday, October 8th Echoes Program 1027B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Michael Spriggs AB Caine Neurasenia 0:06:00 Brian Keane Below the Deck Into the Deep 0:08:51 LAGQ Along the Edge Air and Ground 0:15:56 January Hourglass Careful What You Tell the Sky 0:19:30 Chris Puleston & Chris Conway…
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Thursday, October 7th-Echoes Program 1040D
Thursday, October 7th Echoes Program 1040D New music: Thievery Corporation and Paul Winter Consort On the next Echoes we go back to some earlier music by Thievery Corporation. They have a new collection out called It Takes A Thief. We also have something new From Paul Winter Consort inspired by the I. M. Pei designed…
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Wednesday, October 6th-Echoes Program 1040C
Wednesday, October 6th Echoes Program 1040C Hanging on a Hang Drum The Hang Drum, pronounced “hung,” was invented at the turn of this century in Switzerland. Resembling two woks glued together, it has a sound that can be as soft as a kalimba or as vibrant as a steel drum. We’ll hear music for the…
Best Of
Echoes September Top 25: Plugged In
It’s a plugged in Echoes Top 25 for September. Eight of the Top 10 are electronic albums or electronically enhanced like Matthew Schoening’s Elements and Zoe Keating’s Into the Trees, both looping cello CDs by the way. But acoustic music still has an impact, with Portico Quartet.. oops! They are mostly acoustic, but they use…
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Tuesday, October 5th-Echoes Program 1040B
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Reviews & Commentary
Beardyman Hyper-Kinetic Joy
There are DJ’s, beatboxers and techno-wizards and then, there is Beardyman. For 38 minutes of pure unalloyed joy, watch him in this video and keep in mind, it’s all live. I’ve seen some great Kaos Pad performances by Ulrich Schnauss and Jon Hopkins, but for pure kinetic energy, this one is unreal. You have to…
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Monday, October 4th-Echoes Program 1040A
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CD of the Month
Todd Boston Alive-Echoes October CD of the Month.
World Fusion in a Pastoral Mode from Urban Nature Guitarist Todd Boston is a child of Windham Hill records and Shakti and you can hear that with his world fusion duo, Urban Nature and on Alive, his solo debut. Although to call it solo might be a misnomer. Boston plays acoustic guitar as well as…
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Portico Quartet at World Cafe Live!
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