Month: December 2012

So You Think You Survived the End of the World?

Well it was already over according to Sun Ra.  Here’s a song for those of you who think you survived the post-Mayan Calendar apocalypse. Although the best version of this song is on the album, It’s After the End of the World, I was lucky to find this video from the  Sun Ra movie, Space…

Thursday December 20th-Echoes Program 1251D

Program Descriptions Thursday December 20th Echoes Program 1251D An Echoes Winter Solstice A winter landscape in sound, with no carols or Christmas songs, just a glistening expanse of evocative music to carry you through the longest night of the year with Loreena McKennitt, R. Carlos Nakai, Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning, Klaus Schulze, Mediaeval Baebes,…

Wednesday December 19th-Echoes Program 1251C

Program Descriptions Wednesday December 19th Echoes Program 1251C New Music: Colin Edwin & Jon Durant It’s the last new music show of the year on Echoes as we head into the seasonal programs. John Diliberto has one more blast of new sounds for you including a collaboration between guitarist Jon Durant and Bassist Colin Edwin…

Best of Echoes 2012-Listener Poll Results.

Hear The Best of Echoes 2012 Rewind TONIGHT! See Spotify Playlist Below How much of a runaway was Dead Can Dance’s win in the Best of Echoes 2012 Poll?  They had almost twice as many votes as the next artist, Hammock.  But after that, it’s pretty tight. But what does the list say musically?  It’s…

Tuesday December 18th-Echoes Program 1251B

Program Descriptions Tuesday December 18th Echoes Program 1251B Best of Echoes 2012 The listeners have voted. Hear the results of the Best 25 Echoes CDs of 2012. Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Paul Ellis She Who Watches  I am Here 0:06:00 Balmorhea Pyrakantha  Stranger 0:09:46 Sigur Ros Luppulagith …

Monday December 17th-Echoes Program 1251A

Program Descriptions Monday December 17th Echoes Program 1251A Sonic Seasonings: Living Room Concerts for Christmas It’s an all new Sonic Seasonings this year with live seasonal performances from guitarists Wall Matthews and Trevor Gordon Hall. Wall Matthews created some of the first ambient albums in the 1970s with his Entourage Music and Theater Ensemble recording…

The Reinvention of Kaki King – Echoes Podcast

Hear the Podcast of Kaki King’s Echoes Interview There’s little doubt that Kaki King has been the most high profile acoustic guitar player of the last decade.  Since her 2003 debut she’s recorded several albums, collaborated with musicians like The Goo Goo Dolls, scored films like Into the Wild with Eddie Vedder and Michael Brook…

Weekend December 14th, 15th & 16th-Echoes Program 1250A

Program Descriptions Weekend December 14th, 15th & 16th Echoes Program 1250A Dead Can Dance Live Echoes will present an exclusive broadcast of Dead Can Dance taken from a European performance. For many, a DCD concert is a mystical experience with Lisa Gerard’s supralingua vocals and Brendan Perry’s philosophical musings. We’ll hear a Dead Can Dance…

Thursday December 13th-Echoes Program 1239B

  Program Descriptions | Homepage Thursday December 13th Echoes Program 1239B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Beach House Lazuli  Bloom 0:06:00 Hans Christian and Harry Manx Every Day Forever  You Are the Music of My Silence  0:14:22 Noom Café Surfing Beyond Time 0:20:27 Azure Ray Scattered Like Leaves …