Month: May 2014

Tuesday May 20th-Echoes Program 1421B

Interview: Thus Owls Thus Owls is a Canadian-Swedish group fronted by singer Erika Angell and her husband, guitarist Simon Angell. They talk about their meeting and the tales they spin of an ancient Swedish island village on their album, Turning Rocks. Tuesday May 20th Echoes Program 1421B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name…

Lyla Foy Plays Live on Echoes

Lyla Foy

Lyla Foy Brings her Haunting Songs to Echoes Live.  A lot of modern singers can’t bring it live.  They need backing tapes, ghost vocals, and rhythm tracks, if not more.  I remember one live Echoes session where the only sound in the studio was a lone voice, barely.  Everything else, vocal harmonies, bass, guitar, drums and…

Monday May 19th-Echoes Program 1421A

Living Room Concert: Lyla Foy English singer Lyla Foy used to record as Wall, but under her own name she’s released an album of ethereal dream pop called Mirrors the Sky.  She comes in with her band to play live. Monday May 19th Echoes Program 1421A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First…

Mark McGuire’s Progressive Reinvention

Mark McGuire: Along The Way

Mark McGuire’s Prog-Rock Roots and Metaphysical Designs. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-MarkMcGuire.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIf you thought Toto had taken over Mike Oldfield’s body on his recent album, Man on the Rocks, then you should hear Mark McGuire’s Along the Way.  Every time I put it on I feel like I’m taking a trip into…

Weekend May 16th, 17th & 18th-Echoes Program 1420A

Living Room Concert: Tori Amos Iconic singer-songwriter Tori Amos comes into the Echoes living to perform music from her new CD, Unrepentant Geraldines. Weekend May 16th, 17th & 18th Echoes Program 1420A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Mutual Benefit C.L. Rosarian Love’s Crushing Diamond 0:06:00 Larkenlyre Songbird in…

Welsh Dream Pop on Echoes

The Welsh Band 9Bach has a new CD on Realworld Records. It’s been a while since we’ve featured a Welsh band on Echoes. The last one I recall was Ceredwen, a beautifully produced project that released two albums in the late 1990s on the Real Music label. Ceredwen featured the compositions of Andrew Fryer with…

Thursday May 15th-Echoes Program 1420D

New Music: Brian Eno & Karl Hyde and 9Bach Brian Eno teams up with Underworld’s Karl Hyde on a new CD called Someday World, and 9Bach, a band from Wales, updates traditional Welsh music on their new album is Tincian. Thursday May 15th Echoes Program 1420D Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First…

Echoes Goes to the Darkside

Hear an Interview with Darkside Tonight on Echoes. This past October I got to see the band Darkside at the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit.  They played before an impressively large audience in the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, considering they only had one album out, Psychic.  They’re a band that favors shadows, standing in twin cones…

Wednesday May 14th-Echoes Program 1420C

Interview: Darkside Darkside is the duo of guitarist Dave Harrington and electronic musician Nicholas Jaar. They’re creating improvised 21st century space music with one foot in EDM and another in Pink Floyd. Wednesday May 14th Echoes Program 1420C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Ulrich Schauss and Mark Peters…

Wordless Echoes – Falling Through A Dream pt 2

Wordless Echoes – Falling Through a Dream – pt 2 Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name Amazon/iTunes/Misc 0:00:00 Tim Gerwing The Return Scorpius Rising Buy From Amazon 0:04:41 Hiroki Okano Mother Sky (featuring Wanico) .jp Buy From Amazon 0:11:04 Amethystium Nightfall Transience Buy From Amazon 0:15:34 Dan Pound Eros Thanatos Eros Thanatos More…