Month: July 2013

New Music: Austra & Dead Beat Project

Tonight on Echoes, Austra & Dead Beat Project. New music from Austra, the Canadian band fronted by the powerful voice of Katie Stelmanis, from their new album Olympia, I love her voice.  So many singers we love on Echoes barely project beyond the microphone, but I always feel like you could hear Katie Stelmanis shouting…

Wednesday July 10th-Echoes Program 1328C

Program Descriptions Wednesday July 10th Echoes Program 1328C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Nick Jaina Man Without a Head  Primary Perception 0:06:00 Amatorski Same Stars we Shared  Same Stars we Shared 0:10:12 Jah Wobble & Marconi Union Wealth  Anomic 0:17:13 Hooverphonic George’s Café  The Night Before 0:20:52 Signal…

Living Room Concert: Don Ross

Canadian finger-style guitarist Don Ross comes into Echoes to play his complex compositions for guitar which includes two-handed tapping. Here’s Don Ross in somebody else’s Living Room playing “Cup of Pop” from his latest album, Upright & Locked Position. John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign up for Echoes CD of the Month Club.   CD of the…

Tuesday July 9th-Echoes Program 1315A

Program Descriptions Tuesday July 9th 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…

Interview: Seti the First

Kevin Murphy and Thomas Haugh are Irish musicians but their music isn’t traditional. Inspired by The Penguin Café Orchestra they make their own quirky ambient chamber music, including instruments from the Markophone Colony. Highlights Thomas Haugh: Marxophones, Ukelins, these things were made as kind of gizmos, sold door to door and in toy shops, billed…

Monday July 8th-Echoes Program 1328A

Program Descriptions Monday July 8th Echoes Program 1328A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 M83  Wait  Hurry Up We’re Dreaming 0:06:00 Emerson Lake & Palmer  Lucky Man  Emerson Lake & Palmer 0:10:32 Eloy  Poseidon’s Creation  Ocean 0:22:11 Radiohead  Subterranean Homesick Alien  OK Computer 0:26:30 Schicke Furs and Frohling  Solution…

Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Lloyd Cole: Clustered Commotions.

Hear the Echoes Interview with Cluster’s Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Lloyd Cole in the Echoes Podcast. In alternative rock circles, German bands from the 1980s are considered pioneers of sound.  Kraftwerk, Can, Neu, Harmonia and Cluster are consistently name-checked by everyone from David Bowie and Brian Eno to Stereolab and Radiohead. Hans-Joachim Roedelius, a founding member…

Weekend July 5th, 6th, & 7th-Echoes Program 1327A

Program Descriptions Weekend July 5th, 6th, & 7th Echoes Program 1327A Echoes July CD of the Month Olivier Libaux – Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age Echoes rocks out in the most dreamy way when we hear Olivier Libaux’s Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age. The Nouvelle Vague cofounder takes songs by the band Queens…

Thursday July 4th-Echoes Program 1327D

Program Descriptions Thursday July 4th Echoes Program 1327D American Landscapes: An Echoes Independence Day Soundscape It’s a different kind of Americana with American Landscapes as we celebrate the 4th of July with songs inspired by the vistas of the United States, from Maine to Hawaii. We’ll create fireworks for your ears as well as your…