Month: September 2012

The Soft-Focus Glow of Azure Ray.

Hear Azure Ray talk about their music on Echoes Tuesday October 23. The Dream Pop duo know as Azure Ray came into the Echoes Living Room yesterday and put on a breathless and enchanting performance playing music from their new CD, As Above So Below as well as some older songs including “November.”  Their’s is…

Tuesday September 11th-Echoes Program 1237B

Homepage Tuesday September 11th Echoes Program 1237B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Banco de Gaia B2  Igizeh 0:06:00 Keller Williams Cookies  Dream 0:10:33 Matthew Schoening Finale Motif  0:21:46 The Bootleggers featuring Emmylou Harris Fire in the Blood  Lawless (OST) 0:22:40 Erik Wollo North of the Mountains  Airborne 0:29:00…

Monday September 10th-Echoes Program 1237A

Homepage Monday September 10th Echoes Program 1237A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Liftoff Feathered Up  Sunday Morning Airplay 0:06:00 Helen Jane Long The Aviators  Intervention 0:10:34 Dead Can Dance Children of the Sun  Anastasis 0:17:58 Sounds from the Ground Ink Spots Widerworld 0:22:27 Tycho Hours  Dive 0:29:00 break…

Weekend September 7th, 8th & 9th-Echoes Program 1236A

Weekend September 7th, 8th & 9th Echoes Program 1236A Echoes CD of the Month Dead Can Dance: Anastasis It’s been 16 years since the last Dead Can Dance album, and their new CD, Anastasis is a return to the 1980s sound of this band featuring the ecstatic voice of Lisa Gerrard and the passionate cry…

Progressive Rock Awards.

I didn’t even know they had these and it seems a little late in the game, but Prog Magazine, a journal in the UK with a reported readership of about 25,000, sponsored their first Progressive Music Awards show.  As the first, they understandably acknowledged a lot of the pioneers in the field, granting awards to…

Thursday September 6th-Echoes Program 1236D

Program Descriptions | Homepage Thursday September 6th Echoes Program 1236D New Music: Tycho & BJ Cole A band called Tycho has emerged with a post-rock sound that’s part dreamscape and part rock drive. We’ll hear music from their recent album, Dive.  We’ll also listen to new ambient music for pedal steel guitar by BJ Cole…

Wednesday September 5th-Echoes Program 1236C

Program Descriptions | Homepage Wednesday September 5th Echoes Program 1236C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Tristeza Aereoaviones  A Colores 0:06:00 Biomusique The Tender Green  The 10000 Steps 0:13:00 Russel Walder Gift of Fire  Rise  0:20:24 Raygun Ballet The Fourth Year  The World that Wasn’t  0:29:00 break Second Half…

Sshhhhhhh. John Cage at 100.

John Cage would’ve been 100 today.  He died in 1992, but his influence continues to echo through music.  Many of the musicians on Echoes still cite Cage as an inspiration.  As recently as yesterday on Echoes, Franco Falsini of Sensations Fix recalled hearing Cage in the early 1970s. John Cage had this concept, “I wanted to…

Tuesday September 4th-Echoes Program 1236B

Program Descriptions | Homepage Tuesday September 4th Echoes Program 1236B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Sensations Fix Map Music is Painting in the Air 0:06:00 Erik Wollo North of the Mountains  Airborne 0:10:46 Sumner McKane After the fireworks we walked to the rope swing What a Great Place…

Monday September 3rd-Echoes Program 1236A

Monday September 3rd Echoes Program 1236A Echoes CD of the Month Dead Can Dance: Anastasis It’s been 16 years since the last Dead Can Dance album, and their new CD, Anastasis is a return to the 1980s sound of this band featuring the ecstatic voice of Lisa Gerrard and the passionate cry of Brendan Perry.…