Steve Roach Contemplates the Contemplation of Structures from Silence in Echoes Podcast Over the last 25 years, Steve Roach has been one of the signature artists of Echoes. He wrote our original theme music in 1989 and he was voted one of 20 Icons for 20 Years of Echoes. I’ve known Roach since 1983 when…
Month: April 2014
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Weekend April 11th, 12th & 13th-Echoes Program 1415A
Echoes April CD of the Month Lyla Foy – Mirrors the Sky English singer-songwriter Lyla Foy used to record as Wall but now she has a full-length album under her own name. It’s a subtle, quiet and quirky rumination called Mirrors the Sky and it’s the CD of the Month for April. Weekend April 11th,…
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Cosmic Cello and Downtempo Dreams
Hans Christian was one half of the group Rasa with singer Kim Waters, but before that he was a solo artist mixing his cello with electronics and other exotica. He returns to solo form on a new CD called Hidden Treasures. It’s an album of lush orchestrations featuring his cello, the Indian sarangi and sitara,…
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Thursday April 10th-Echoes Program 1415D
New Music: Thus Owl & R. Carlos Nakai and Peter Kater New music by Thus Owl, a band with members from Montreal and Sweden creating a theatrical dream pop on their album Turning Rocks, and Hans Christian from his new album Hidden Treasures. Thursday April 10th Echoes Program 1415D Start Time Group Name Song Name…
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Music Reimagined-The Echoes Covers Show
Echoes Plays All Cover Tunes Tonight from Prog Rock to Pop Shlock You’ll Never Hear Grease and Gloria Gaynor the Same Way Again Everyone is doing cover tunes these days and the best ones reinvent the songs the way Jimi Hendrix did with Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower.” So today, you’ll hear music you…
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Wednesday April 9th-Echoes Program 1415C
Echoes go undercover for an entire show of cover songs. They’re been a lot of unusual ones out lately including Lo-Fang’s take on a song from Grease and The Capsules down-tempo trawl through Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive.” Wednesday April 9th Echoes Program 1415C Echoes Undercover Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First…
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Tuesday April 8th-Echoes Program 1415B
Interview: Steve Roach Steve Roach is an icon of modern electronic and space music and 2014 marks the 30th anniversary of his signature work, Structures from Silence. We go back 30 years with Roach and connect that early recording to his current music. Tuesday April 8th Echoes Program 1415B Start Time Group Name Song Name…
Interview Podcast
30 Years of Stillness with Steve Roach
Steve Roach’s Structures From Silence Turns 30 Steve Roach has been one of the signature artists of Echoes. He wrote our original theme music in 1989 and he was voted one of 20 Icons for 20 Years of Echoes. I’ve known Roach since 1983 when I visited his small bungalow in Culver City near Los…
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Monday April 7th-Echoes Program 1415A
Lyla Foy – Mirrors the Sky English singer-songwriter Lyla Foy used to record as Wall but now she has a full-length album under her own name. It’s a subtle, quiet and quirky rumination called Mirrors the Sky and it’s the CD of the Month for April. Monday April 7th Echoes Program 1415A Echoes April CD…
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Mike Oldfield in Echoes Podcast
Mike Oldfield talks Rock in Echoes Podcast On the heels of his international acclaim at the 2012 Summer Olympic opening ceremony in London and the 40th anniversary of his signature work, Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield takes a hard right into 70s era album rock. His latest CD, Man on the Rocks, features singer Luke Spiller…