Month: April 2011

Thursday, April 7th-Echoes Program 1114D

Thursday, April 7th Echoes Program 1114D Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Pat Metheny New Chautauqua  New Chautauqua 0:06:00 Dead Beat Project Checkmate  R’Evoluton 0:13:59 Leaving Richmond What We Were Waiting For  The Secret Traditions of Washington Ave 0:17:38 Helios Fourteen Drawings  Caesura 0:21:48 Caroline Sleep  Verdugo Hills 0:25:37…

Wednesday, April 6th-Echoes Program 1114C

Wednesday, April 6th Echoes Program 1114C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu Sacred Place  Dream Logic: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Vol. 16 (v/a)* 0:06:00 Michael Spriggs One Million Lives  Sonic Venue 0:11:09 Daniel Masson Zar Dimension Frequencies 0:16:10 Vic Hennegan Surya Namaskar In…

Tuesday, April 5th-Echoes Program 1114B

Tuesday, April 5th Echoes Program 1114B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Billy Currie Skips of a Chopped Head  Accidental Poetry of the Structure 0:06:00 Sumner McKane The Were Isolated In the Blood 0:08:08 Synaesthesia The Great Western Synaesthesia 0:19:07 The Forefathers Evening Rain  Aurora 0:23:50 Andy Summers and…

Instant Joy with The Instant Composers Pool Orchestra.

Instant Composers Orchestra’s Joyful Noise at Christ Church Neighborhood House 4-3-2011. When you’re talking about avant-garde jazz and free improvisation, joy is often left out of the mix.  You get aggression, exuberance, chaos and hushed, meditative space, but rarely is there simple joy.  That is, unless you attended one of the three nights that the…

Monday, April 4th-Echoes Program 1114A

Monday, April 4th and the weekend of April 9th Echoes Program 1114A April CD of the Month Vicki Richards: She Vanishes Our April CD of the Month takes us on a world music journey of soaring violin, Indian rhythms and guitar when we explore Vicki Richards’ She Vanishes.  Vicki has been heard on Echoes for…

Lia Ices’ Mythological Music.

Lia Ices is a singer-songwriter from New York with a singular vocal style, melodies that linger and lyrics that provoke. I saw her last night at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia and just finished a late morning Echoes session with the singer-songwriter at The Music Centre in Exton, PA.   Both were fantastic and I can’t wait…

Electric Raga Violin with Vicki Richards

Electric Violinist Vicki Richards Appears with Echoes April CD of the Month: She Vanishes Vicki Richards is a violinist who’s plugged in and globally wired.  And she has been since we started playing her music back at the dawn of Echoes in 1989 with the original version of her album,  Parting The Waters.  She’s played…

Friday, April 1st-Echoes Program 1101C

Friday, April 1st Echoes Program 1101C Nordic Atmospheres and Angels It’s the evocative sound of Norse singers like Anna Ternheim and Agnes Obel along with sound sculptors like Erik Wollo, Sigur Ros and Nils Petter Molvaer.  We explore a distinct modern music culture when we enter the chill of Nordic Atmospheres and Angels on Echoes.…