Month: February 2011

Tuesday, February 15th-Echoes Program 1107B

Tuesday, February 15th Echoes Program 1107B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Urban Nature Indra  Coming Home 0:06:00 The Forefathers Evening Rain  Aurora 0:10:21 Dead Beat Project Checkmate  R’Evoluton 0:18:15 Tom Powell Just a Moment Scattergathering 0:29:00 break Second Half Hour 0:30:00 Living Room Concert: Pierre Bensusan Pierre Bensusan…

Monday, February 14th-Echoes Program 1107A

Monday, February 14th and the weekend of Feb. 19th Echoes Program 1107A Echoes of the HeartEchoes celebrates St. Valentine’s Day with a sensual soundscape of atmospheric moods and poetic murmurs.  We’ll hear evocations of the heart from around the world and out into space. Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour…

ECHOES AT THE 53rd GRAMMYS

TUNE IN TO ECHOES AT THE GRAMMYS TONIGHT Tune into Echoes tonight for the Grammy Awards you wish you could see on TV. This Sunday,  February 13 the 53rd Grammy Awards take place.   Another year, another set of Grammy Awards.  Many of us become inured to these awards which purport to honor the best and…

Friday, February 11th-Echoes Program 1106E

Friday, February 11th Echoes Program 1106E Echoes at the Grammys It’s our annual Grammy nominees from the Echoes universe.  This year, there are many, including Jeff Beck, Hans Zimmer, Paul Winter, and R. Carlos Nakai.  It’s the Grammy Awards show you’d wish you could see on TV, when Echoes goes to the Grammys. Start Time…

Thursday, February 10th-Echoes Program 1106D

Thursday, February 10th Echoes Program 1106D Aspects of Ambient Chamber Music Join John Diliberto in the Echoes concert hall when we explore the meeting of classical form and instruments with modern form and electronics on aspects of ambient chamber music.  We’ll hear music from Ludovico Einaudi, Ólafur Arnalds, Jóhann Jóhannsson and more with Aspects of…

Wednesday, February 9th-Echoes Program 1040D

Wednesday, February 9th Echoes Program 1040D Music from 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 an album from Paul Winter Consort inspired by the I. M. Pei designed…

Tuesday, February 8th-Echoes Program 1106B

Tuesday, February 8th Echoes Program 1106B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Fernwood August  Sangita 0:06:00 Evening Ocean Beneath the Lights  The Kiss 0:10:27 Kwook Ice Planet Unidentified Feathered Object 0:17:58 Iarla Ó Lionáird A Nest of Stars  Invisible Fields 0:23:59 Tom Rothrock Bad Luck  Resonator 0:29:00 break Second…

Monday, February 7th-Echoes Program 1106A

Monday, February 7th Echoes Program 1106A Echoes February CD of the Month David Arkenstone: Ambient World Echoes goes ambient in February when a master of symphonic synthesis, David Arkenstone, turns down the orchestral arrangements and dials up moods and atmospheres on his album, Ambient World.  It’s a seductive and haunting release and we’ll hear it…

Friday, February 4th-Echoes Program 1047B

Friday, February 4th Echoes Program 1047B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 All India Radio Ghost Song The Silent Surf 0:06:00 Pierre Bensusan Vividly  Vividly 0:10:00 Robert Schroeder Foaming Waves Cream 0:20:22 Willy Porter Where Are My Keys?  Available Light 0:24:26 Emmalee Crane Crasher Crasher Single 0:27:24 Christophe Beck…

Echoes Top 25 for January

Agnes Obel’s Philharmonics Heads Echoes Top 25 for January Ambient chamber music is big on January’s Top 25.  Agnes Obel leads it with her delicately serene and haunting debut, Philharmonics, which sets her voice in a chamber bed of piano and cello.  I’m sure this album will be in my Top 5 at the end…