Month: April 2013

Tuesday April 9th-Echoes Program 1315B

Program Descriptions Tuesday April 9th Echoes Program 1315B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Japancakes This Year’s Beat  The Sleepy Strange 0:06:00 Olafur Arnalds Words of Amber  For Now I am Winter 0:09:04 Solar Fields The Missing (Origin 2003)  Origin 02 0:17:35 Cliff Martinez Can’t Say I’m Happy to…

The Black Angels’ Joyful Darkness.

Black Angels Trip Out at Union Transfer Austin psychedelic rockers The Black Angels create a sound that weaves joy and darkness layered under waves of reverb and shuddering tremolo guitar. That sound was heard in full hallucinogenic effect last night at Union Transfer in Philadelphia.  Playing behind their new CD, Indigo Meadow, the band essayed…

Monday April 8th-Echoes Program 1315A

Program Descriptions Monday April 8th Echoes Program 1315A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Tino Izzo And the Sun  Morning Scapes 0:06:00 Mark Holland and N. Scott Robinson In Remembrance (Honoring Our Fathers) Lost in the Beauty of it All  0:08:45 Bertrand Loreau Le Ciel est Jaune D’Un Liquide…

Weekend April 5th, 6th, & 7th-Echoes Program 1314A

Program Descriptions Weekend April 5th, 6th, & 7th Echoes Program 1314A Echoes CD of the Month Ólafur Arnalds – For Now I Am Winter Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds has made a definite album of ambient chamber music mixing strings, piano electronics and his serene and forlorn compositions. Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name…

Thursday April 4th-Echoes Program 1314D

Program Descriptions Thursday April 4th Echoes Program 1314D New Music: Rhian Sheehan & Dido It’s ambient chamber music by composer Rhian Sheehan from New Zealand. He has a powerful new concept album called Stories from Elsewhere. We’ll also hear the latest from Dido off her album The Girl Who Got Away, which has production from…

Wednesday April 3rd-Echoes Program 1314C

Program Descriptions Wednesday April 3rd Echoes Program 1314C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Sonic Adventure Project A New Morning  Who Is In?  0:06:00 Delerium Music Box Opera  Music Box Opera 0:11:13 Simon Emmerson/Barney Morse-Brown Let the Bells Ring Out Fresh Handmade Sound: The Sound Bath (v/a) 0:17:37 Shaman’s…

Paul Williams Rock Journalist, R.I.P.

Paul Williams dies at 64.  The founder of Crawdaddy Magazine and one of the first rock journalists passes early.  David Fricke wrote a beautiful remembrance at Rollingstone.com  Fricke’s experience with Williams echoes my own, which I blogged about 4 years ago.  I’m re-blogging it here. An Homage to Paul Williams-Godfather of Rock Criticism There are…

Tuesday April 2nd-Echoes Program 1314B

Program Descriptions Tuesday April 2nd Echoes Program 1314B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 All India Radio Ghost Song  The Silent Surf  0:06:00 Scann-Tec Hello Human  Morpheus – Live Nuit Hypnotique 0:12:12 Sumner McKane With All Those Kids He Did What He Had To Select Visual History 0:17:30 Wall…

Monday April 1st-Echoes Program 1314A

Program Descriptions Monday April 1st Echoes Program 1314A Echoes CD of the Month Ólafur Arnalds – For Now I Am Winter Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds has made a definite album of ambient chamber music mixing strings, piano electronics and his serene and forlorn compositions. Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour…