Month: December 2010

Thursday, December 9th-Echoes Program 1049D

Thursday, December 9th Echoes Program 1049D Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Annbjorg Lien Prisme  Prisme 0:06:00 California Guitar Trio Turn of the Tide Andromeda 0:08:54 Eugene Friesen Triangles/Akatombo  Sono Miho 0:12:50 Sounds From The Ground Midnight Crossing  The Maze 0:18:45 Inna Zhelannaya Pavushka  Cocoon 0:29:00 break Second Half…

Wednesday, December 8th-Echoes Program 1033D

Wednesday, December 8th Echoes Program 1033D Music from Movie Soundtracks John Diliberto enters your dreams with Hans Zimmer’s score to the psychological thriller, Inception and then he referees a match with Scott Pilgrim vs. the World when we hear Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich’s score. Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour…

Ten Best New Music Concerts of 2010.

No one can possibly see every concert of the year so this is really the 10 best concerts that I saw in 2010.  And I saw a lot of shows and some astounding performances.  Here’s the list. John Diliberto’s Ten Best Concerts of 2010 1  Jonsi at Electric Factory, Philadelphia Jonsi gave a performance that…

Tuesday, December 7th-Echoes Program 1049B

Tuesday, December 7th Echoes Program 1049B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Conrad Praetzel Ropes and Ladders  Receive 0:06:00 Pierre Bensusan Vividly  Vividly 0:09:56 Michel Banabila Fragments of Memory  Migrations 0:16:35 Chuck van Zyl Marble Orchard Nocturne MemorySpace 0:29:00 break Second Half Hour 0:30:00 Interview: Portico Quartet You can’t…

Monday, December 6th-Echoes Program 1049A

Monday, December 6th Echoes Program 1049A Echoes December CD of the Month Jeff Johnson, Brian Dunning & Wendy Goodwin: Under the Wonder Sky It’s a pastoral Celtic Christmas with an album of familiar carols re-imagined, lesser known carols revealed and a pair of original compositions from these veterans of Windham Hill’s seasonal samplers.  It’s a…

25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2010.

ECHOES PICKS THEIR TOP 25 FOR 2010 The Echoes 2010 Listener Poll is in full swing, but this is what we think was the best  music played on Echoes in 2010, compiled by the Echoes staff of John Diliberto, Kimberly Haas and Jeff Towne.   Twelve  of them were Echoes CD of the Month selections in…

Friday, December 3rd-Echoes Program 1040C

Friday, December 3rd 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…

Thursday, December 2nd-Echoes Program 1048D

Thursday, December 2nd Echoes Program 1048D New music: Loreena McKennitt and Asura Loreena McKennitt goes back to her Celtic roots with a new CD of folk songs called The Wind That Shakes the Barley. Another artist who records as Asura, leaves his roots trailing behind him in space on an electronic CD called 360. Start…

Wednesday, December 1st-Echoes Program 1048C

  Wednesday, December 1st Echoes Program 1048C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Songs of Water The Sea has Spoken The Sea has Spoken 0:06:00 Clara Ponty Autumn Bells Mirror of Truth 0:09:49 Russel Walder Gift of Fire Rise 0:17:38 Wim Musing Dreamscape 0:23:19 Bryan Ferry Tender is the…