Month: May 2012

Wednesday May 9th-Echoes Program 1219C

Wednesday May 9th Echoes Program 1219C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Future Loop Foundation Everything as it Should Be (Beauty Room Remix)  The Fading Room: Memories and Remixes  0:06:00 Preston Reed What You Don’t See  Handwritten Notes  0:10:55 George Winston High Plains Lullaby  Montana – A Love Story…

Ten Observations for Electronic Musicians

I’ve been following electronic music since the early 1970s and have explored its growth and breadth going back to the musique concrete of Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henryto the latest ambient/techno/electronica/glitch extrapolations. More than almost any other music form, electronic music embodies the spirit of creation.  Every generation births new forms, technologies and sounds.  But…

Tuesday May 8th-Echoes Program 1219B

s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s Tuesday May 8th Echoes Program 1219B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 William Orbit Colours From Nowhere Hello Waveforms 0:06:00 Stephan Micus Part 1  Twilight Fields 0:14:28 Zingaia MerMade  Earth Church 0:17:43 Dan Ar Bras The Sea’s Lament  Music for the Silences to Come 0:23:56 Erik Wollo…

Monday May 7th-Echoes Program 1219A

Monday May 7th Echoes Program 1219A Echoes CD of the Month Coyote Jump: Waking from the Roots Multi-instrumentalist Colin Farish and Native flute player John Carlos Perea have created an impeccable fusion of Native flute, strings and world music ensembles on their stellar debut, Waking from the Roots. Start Time Group Name Song Name Album…

Prog Heaven Past & Future coming to Philly.

Philadelphia, where Echoes is based, will be experiencing a wave of progressive music past and present in the coming months. From the past, Tangerine Dream, UK and Van Der Graaf Generator.  Reflecting the past, Broekhuis, Keller & Schonwalder.  From the present, Sigur Ros, Dead Can Dance (well, kind between past & present), Radiohead and Iona. …

Weekend of May 4th, 5th & 6th-Echoes Program 1218A

Weekend of May 4th, 5th & 6th Echoes Program 1218A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Peter Rubissow As You Leave The Group 0:06:00 Digitonal Come and Play  Be Still My Bleeping Heart 0:11:31 Clara Ponty Echo  Echoes 0:15:47 Broekhuis/Keller/Schonwalder From Red to Green Red 0:29:00 break Second Half…

Thursday, May 3rd-Echoes Program 1218D

Thursday, May 3rd Echoes Program 1218D New Music by Volker Goetze & Ablaye Cissoko and Bassnectar One of the favorite albums on Echoes a couple of years ago was Sira with German trumpeter Volker Goetze and Senegalese kora player Ablaye Cissoko. They return with a brand new album. We’ll also hear something new from the…

Wednesday, May 2nd-Echoes Program 1218C

Wednesday, May 2nd Echoes Program 1218C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 John Wubbenhorst True Water’s Depth  True Water 0:06:00 Phil Thornton The Way  Tibetan Horn 0:16:28 Vic Hennegan Sermon of the Mountain Man  Field of Worlds and Mirrors  0:21:30 Coyote Oldman Time Travelers  Time Travelers 0:29:00 break Second…

Coyote Jump-Global Native Chamber Music.

Hear Coyote Jump interviewed tonight on Echoes (8/9/2012) Coyote Jump’s debut album, Waking from the Roots, is slightly deceiving. The cover, with its neo-primitive rendering of a coyote, looks like a typical Canyon Records sleeve for a Pow-Wow or Peyote song album. However, the first notes of a Middle Eastern frame drum and buzz stick…

Tuesday, May 1st-Echoes Program 1218B

Tuesday, May 1st Echoes Program 1218B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Stephen Bennett Jonathan  Reflections 0:06:00 Mazmoneth End Game  Music by Mirrors 0:12:08 Jef Stott White Tara  Arcana 0:18:36 Sonic Adventure Project Haze  Who Is In? 0:22:57 Erik Wollo Nimbus (retrace) Solstice (Special Remastered Edition) 0:29:00 break Second…