or I Dropped My Microphone on Ravi Shankar’s Sitar. The word “icon” is tossed around pretty freely these days, and I probably fling it out there more than most. But put the name Ravi Shankar next to “icon” and you reset that bar to stratospheric heights. There are only a few musicians who stand out…
Month: December 2012
Playlists
Wednesday December 12th-Echoes Program 1250C
Program Descriptions Wednesday December 12th Echoes Program 1250C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Conrad Praetzel Ropes and Ladders Receive 0:06:00 Hibernation Taking Shape Second Nature 0:12:24 The Watermark High Contadicting My Arm In Flux 0:16:33 Gareth Pearson Cold Comfort Urban Echoes Vol. 2 0:20:08 John McCutcheon Erev Shel…
Playlists
Tuesday December 11th-Echoes Program 1250B
Program Descriptions Tuesday December 11th Echoes Program 1250B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Hammock Pathos Departure Songs 0:06:00 Anawaty/Russel If Only I Could Analog Universe 0:10:02 Michael Brant DeMaria The Way Beyond Bindu 0:18:29 Saul Stokes Turn of Phase Formation 0:24:40 Leo Abrahams Seeing Stars The Ambient Zone…
Reviews & Commentary
Moogfest Gone? Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit Here?
A press release was just issued notifying us about a change at Moogfest, namely that it will no longer be called Moogfest, but the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit (MOEMS?) I could be wrong, but if I’m to read between the lines of the release, I suspect that they couldn’t come to an amenable financial…
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Monday December 10th-Echoes Program 1250A
Program Descriptions Monday December 10th 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 live performance from…
Program Highlights, Reviews & Commentary
The Ritual and Rapture of Dead Can Dance.
Hear Dead Can Dance in an exclusive broadcast live from Geneva tonight 12/16/2012 on Echoes This article originally published in CD Review in 1990 On the day of our Exclusive broadcast of Dead Can Dances performance in Geneva in October, I unearthed this article I wrote on the band back in 1990 for CD Review…
Interview Podcast
Shoegaze Ambience with Manual – Echoes Podcast
Interview with Jonas Munk a.k.a Manual in Echoes Podcast In the early 2000’s a new sound in electronic music emerged. It mixed German Space and Progressive Rock, with Shoegaze guitar and contemporary Electronica. Two of the leading lights in this sound were Manual and Ulrich Schnauss. Manual is Danish musician Jonas Munk and he’s carved…
Playlists
Weekend December 7th, 8th & 9th-Echoes Program 1249A
Program Descriptions Weekend December 7th, 8th & 9th Echoes Program 1249A Echoes CD of the Month for December Hammock: Departure Songs Hammock has released a definitive album of shoegaze guitar ambience that explores themes of loss, mortality and lots of reverb. Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Jeff Johnson…
Reviews & Commentary
55th Grammy Awards-Return of Pure New Age.
New Age Music reasserts its hold on the Grammy’s New Age Category. I won’t be able to get my chakras in an uproar about the absurdity of the New Age Grammy category this year. (See previous rants & reflections Grammys Goof Again in the New Age) There aren’t any hack New Agers that no one…
Playlists
Thursday December 6th-Echoes Program 1249D
Program Descriptions Thursday December 6th Echoes Program 1249D New Music: Koan and Mychael Danna We hear the mythical tale of “Jason and the Golden Fleece” turned into an electronica mood by Koan. The Russian composer uses the tale as the basis of his album, Argonautica. And speaking of journeys, we’ll hear from the soundtrack of…