Month: May 2013

Monday May 20th-Echoes Program 1321A

Program Descriptions Monday May 20th Echoes Program 1321A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 William Tyler The Last Residents of Westfall  Impossible Truth 0:06:00 David and Steve Gordon Ambient Spa  Yoga Moods 0:11:32 Gaudi Tamino and the Temple of Dub  In Between Times 0:17:04 Syriana Checkpoint Charlie  The Road…

Echoes Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Tubular Bells.

Interview: Mike Oldfield – the 40th Anniversary of Tubular Bells on Echoes Hear it on-air the weekend of May 24-26 Hear the Echoes Podcast of the interview with Mike Oldfield on Tubular Bells It was forty years ago that Mike Oldfield electrified the world with his hit album, Tubular Bells. It had one composition spanning…

Echoes Ólafur Arnalds Interview Podcast

Hear the Echoes Interview with Ólafur Arnalds in the Echoes Podcast There is an emerging generation of artists who are positing the first new movement in classical music since 1970s minimalism: Ambient Chamber Music.  It mixes classical orchestrations with electronic sounds, but couches  them all in gorgeous, often heart-rending melodies and an atmosphere that envelopes…

Weekend May 17th, 18th & 19th-Echoes Program 1320A

Program Descriptions Weekend May 17th, 18th & 19th Echoes Program 1320A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Viktor Krauss Split Wndow Far From Enough 0:06:00 Mike Dawes Somewhere Home What Just Happened 0:12:32 Portico Quartet Rubidium/Line (Live) Live Remix 0:25:11 Still Corners We Killed the Moonlight Strange Pleasures 0:29:00…

Thursday May 16th-Echoes Program 1320D

Program Descriptions Thursday May 16th Echoes Program 1320D Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Bombay Dub Orchestra Unexpected Rain  Bombay Dub Orchestra 0:06:00 Jami Sieber Jewels in Indra’s Web Timeless 0:12:21 Dead Can Dance Anabasis  In Concert 0:18:42 Cliff Martinez Never Gonna Get This…  Spring Breakers (OST) 0:22:20 Still…

Two Epic Birthdays: Mike Oldfield & Brian Eno.

Mike Oldfield & Brian Eno both share birthdays today.  Oldfield turns 60 and Eno turns 65.  Each artist has shaped the music we hear today.  Brian Eno has been the more prolific and expansive, working across genres and attaining massive popular success in each of the last 5 decades through his work with other artists…

Wednesday May 15th-Echoes Program 1320C

Program Descriptions Wednesday May 15th Echoes Program 1320C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Huun Huur Tu and Carmen Rizzo In Search of a Lost Past  Eternal 0:06:00 William Tyler Country of Illusion  Impossible Truth 0:14:48 Hungry Lucy High Price of Mistakes  To Kill a King  0:18:52 Gaudi Tamino…

Tuesday May 14th-Echoes Program 1320B

Program Descriptions Tuesday May 14th Echoes Program 1320B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Moby Homeward Angel  Hotel 0:06:00 Junip Baton  Junip 0:09:39 Syriana Syriana  The Road to Damascus 0:15:18 Mike Dawes Titanium  What Just Happened 0:19:14 Dido Sitting on the Roof of the World  Girl Who Got Away…

Monday May 13th-Echoes Program 1320A

Program Descriptions Monday May 13th Echoes Program 1320A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Viktor Krauss Split Wndow  Far From Enough 0:06:00 Mike Dawes Somewhere Home  What Just Happened 0:12:32 Portico Quartet Rubidium/Line (Live)  Live Remix 0:25:11 Still Corners We Killed the Moonlight  Strange Pleasures 0:29:00 break   Second…

An Angel Taps Pat Metheny & John Zorn.

A Review of Pat Metheny’s Tap: John Zorn’s Book of Angels Volume 20 Hear Pat Metheny talk about John Zorn’s Book of Angels Volume 20 on the Echoes Podcast Pat Metheny and John Zorn were born within a year of each other and share many of the same musical influences.  But in their professional lives,…