Program Descriptions Monday September 16th Echoes Program 1338A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Emiliana Torrini Blood Red Tookah 0:06:00 Raygun Ballet Manzanar Big California 0:11:36 Diana New House Perpetual Surrender 0:17:14 Mree Night Owls Winterwell 0:22:58 Darshan Ambient The Mystery of Sleep Little Things 0:29:00 break Second…
Month: September 2013
Interview Podcast
Ane Brun Interviewed on Echoes Podcast.
Hear Ane Brun interviewed in the Echoes Podcast. Norwegian-born, Sweden-based singer-songwriter Ane Brun creates a dreamy, folk-based music. She looks back on her 10 year career and new double CD retrospective Songs 2003-2013. But she started out as a busker. There are thousands of them around the world: Musicians playing on street corners, in cafes…
Playlists
Weekend September 13th, 14th & 15th-Echoes Program 1337A
Program Descriptions Weekend September 13th, 14th & 15th Echoes Program 1337A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 EO Downtown City Heart Breathe Your Air 0:06:00 Raygun Ballet On Finding True Color Big California 0:09:37 Dessa I’m Going Down Parts of Speech 0:13:16 The Civil Wars Tell Mama The Civil…
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Thursday September 12th-Echoes Program 1337D
Program Descriptions Thursday September 12th Echoes Program 1337D New Music: Goldfrapp & Colin Edwin New music from Tales of Us, a beautiful album of chamber pop from Goldfrapp, the band fronted by the angelic voice of Alison Goldfrapp and also from a new project by Porcupine Tree bassist Colin Edwin called Endless Tapes. Start Time…
Program Highlights
Retro-California, Future Space & Joy Formidable On Echoes
Today on Echoes it’s new music by Raygun Ballet. This is the recording persona of John-Mark Austin. He’s best known as an Academy Award winning CGI artist whose work includes Avatar among many others. When he makes music, Austin explores a retro-futurism, pulling soundclips from the 50s that are usually looking forward to an age…
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Wednesday September 11th-Echoes Program 1337C
Program Descriptions Wednesday September 11th Echoes Program 1337C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Diana New House Perpetual Surrender 0:06:00 Endless Tapes Evoluzione Endless Tapes EP 0:11:43 Clannad Hymn (To Her Love) Nadur 0:16:22 The Joy Formidable All This Promise Silent Treatment EP 0:19:56 Roberto Fonesca Bibisa Yo 0:24:20…
Program Highlights
Psychedelic to Serenity: Mike Wall Echoes Interview
We get a lot of music in here with titles like “Music for Massage,” “Music for Yoga,” “Music for Meditation.” They almost never make it onto the show, but every now and then we get one that has a little bit more going for it, than pretty sounds and contemplative moods. That’s the case with…
Best Of
Greatest Songs of the 21st Century… So Far: An Idiosyncratic List.
The thirteenth year of the 21st century doesn’t seem to be the right time to look back on the best of the millennium. Those lists usually come on the decade and quarter century marks. But I was asked to compile another Top Ten list for Echoes affiliate, WXPN in Philadelphia. This time, the impossible assignment…
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The Cabaret of Una on Echoes.
Una is interviewed tonight on Echoes. Trip-Hop music of the 1990s brought several worlds together. In groups like Portishead, Massive Attack and Morcheeba, you could hear elements of hip-hop, electronic music, lounge moods and torch song singing. Una has taken those sounds in a different direction over the last six years, adding jazz, film scores…
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Tuesday September 10th-Echoes Program 1337B
Program Descriptions Tuesday September 10th Echoes Program 1337B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Washed Out Falling Back Paracosm 0:06:00 Shambhu Devodance Dreaming of Now 0:12:01 The Joy Formidable Silent Treatment Silent Treatment EP 0:15:29 Akara The Royal Antechamber The World Beyond 0:24:15 Cult With No Name Breathing (Acoustic…