New Music: Carl Weingarten & Sylvan Esso Featuring music from guitarist Carl Weingarten, who began in progressive rock and moved to his own brand of spacey Americana, off his new CD Life Under Stars, and music from a band called Sylvan Esso off their debut album. Wednesday May 7th Echoes Program 1419C Start Time Group…
Month: May 2014
Program Highlights
Marissa Nadler’s Surreal Dream-Folk Music
Singer-Songwriter Marissa Nadler tonight on Echoes. Her mother was an abstract artist. She grew up on Nirvana and Mojave 3 and recorded with an experimental Heavy Metal artist. All aspects you might not expect from a women who makes gently melodic, atmospherically mysterious, and lyrically intriguing music, playing on fingerstyle guitar with a voice that…
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Tuesday May 6th-Echoes Program 1419B
Interview: Marissa Nadler Boston based singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler talks about her intimate songs and her new CD, July which explores a year in her life, break-up to reunion, July to July. Tuesday May 6th Echoes Program 1419B Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Rachel Zeffira Star The Deserters 0:06:00 …
CD of the Month
Hans Christian’s Hidden Treasures
Cellist Hans Christian creates Global Serenity with Hidden Treasures The Echoes May CD of the Month Hans Christian launches his new CD playing cello. It’s the instrument he began with studying classical repertoire and he’s done recordings with it from the purely Renaissance album, Light and Spirit, to pure solo improvisations on Sancta Camisia, and…
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Monday May 5th-Echoes Program 1419A
Echoes May CD of the Month Hans Christian – Hidden Treasures Hans Christian was one half of the chant-fusion duo Rasa. On his own, he makes a seductive world fusion mixing cello, saranghi, sitara and electronics. It’s 21st century global serenity. Monday May 5th Echoes Program 1419A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name…
Interview Podcast
Mary Fahl in Echoes Podcast
Mary Fahl Talks of Love, Werewolves and Grace Slick in Echoes Podcast Mary Fahl doesn’t sound like any other modern singer. You have to go back to vocalists like Sandy Denny of Fairport Convention and Grace Slick of The Jefferson Airplane to find a reference point for a sound which is more like warrior angels…
Interview Podcast
Mary Fahl In Echoes Podcast
Mary Fahl Talks of Love, Werewolves and Grace Slick in Echoes Podcast One of the most distinctive voices in modern music has been singer Mary Fahl. While we love the “ethereal girls” on Echoes, Mary Fahl is powerhouse singer whose roots are more Grace Slick and Sandy Denny than Elizabeth Fraser and Suzanne Vega. She…
Playlists
Weekend May 2nd, 3rd & 4th-Echoes Program 1418A
Living Room Concert: Thus Owls Thus Owls is a band creating a theatrical alt-rock that recalls Kate Bush. They’re fronted by the husband and wife duo of Canadian guitarist Simon Angell and Swedish singer Erika Angell who has a powerful, sometimes possessed voice. They play music from their new CD, Turning Rocks. Weekend May 2nd,…
Program Highlights
Badass Music and Rush Tonight on Echoes
New Music from Bear McCreary & The Montreal Guitar Trio Tonight on Echoes, new music from a film nobody saw, but you’ll definitely recognize the composer. It’s Bear McCreary who scored Battlestar Galactica and The Walking Dead as well as many films. We’ll hear his soundtrack to The Nights of Badassdom. This movie was released…
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Thursday May 1st-Echoes Program 1418D
New Music: Bear McCreary & The Montreal Guitar Trio New music from a film nobody saw, but you’ll definitely recognize the composer. It’s Bear McCreary who scored Battlestar Galactica and many other films. We’ll hear his soundtrack to The Nights of Badassdom. We’ll also hear from The Montreal Guitar Trio covering a tune by Rush.…