The Best of Echoes 2020 & Kevin Keller Interview
There are a lot of things we’re going to remember about 2020, The pandemic, protests, the Presidential election. But what you should really take away from this year is the incredible music that came out that was played on Echoes. In recognition of 30 years of Echoes, we’ve just put together our Top 30 list of 2020. We could only fit the top 20 in this two-hour program, but you can see the full list here.
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Weekend, Dec 12-13, 2020 – Echoes Program 2049A |
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Start Time |
Group Name |
Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:01 | Darshan Ambient | City of the Seven Hymns | A Day Like Any Other |
| 0:06:01 | Robert Rich | Proximal | Neurogenesis |
| 0:11:58 | Ben Neil & Mimi Goese | Cuckoo | Life You Are |
| 0:16:38 | Purity Ring | Femia | Womb |
| 0:19:30 | Erik Wollo & Michael Stearns | The Way Ahead 2 | Convergence |
| 0:23:34 | Gracie & Rachel | Floating | Hello Weakness You Make Me Strong |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:00 | David Helpling | Be | Rune |
| 0:35:33 | Moby | Forever | All Visible Objects |
| 0:40:12 | break | ||
| 0:41:05 | Kevin Keller | The Forgotten Places | The Front Porch of Heaven |
| 0:46:35 | Tangerine Dream | Stratosfear 2019 | Recurring Dreams |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:07 | Aukai | Rekindle | Game Trails |
| 1:06:01 | Jake Shimabukuro | Morning Blue | Jake Shimabukuro Trio |
| 1:09:35 | Ian Boddy | Boddy Love | Axiom |
| 1:15:21 | Michael Whalen | A Metaphysical Morning | Sacred Spaces |
| 1:20:55 | Yppah | High Pines | Sunset In The Deep End |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:00 | Ane Brun | Don’t Run and Hide | After the Great Storm |
| 1:35:30 | Digitonal | The Autumn Journal | Set the Weather Fair |
| 1:40:09 | Steve Roach | Spiral Of Strength | Tomorrow |
| 1:45:43 | AvaWaves | Waves | Waves |
| 1:50:05 | break | ||
| 1:52:38 | Agnes Obel | Broken Sleep | Myopia |
Ambient chamber music composer Kevin Keller had a scare last year when he went in for heart surgery. It made him contemplate life and what happens 
when they stop your heart.
Kevin Keller: “I guess I asked myself the question like well where does one go when that happens? Do you go somewhere? Are you aware that your heart is not beating? Do you know somehow, somewhere in your consciousness? And so this album grew out of that question of where do you go when you’re on the edge of death?”
That contemplation turned into his haunting, beautiful album, The Front Porch of Heaven. Sit on a rocking chair with Kevin Keller and hear life pass before your ears on Echoes from PRX.
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Weekend, Dec 12-13, 2020 – Echoes Program 2049B |
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Start Time |
Group Name |
Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:01 | Kevin Keller | Ice World 6 | Ice Worlds |
| 0:06:01 | Kasbo | Shut the World Out (feat. Frida Sundemo) | The Making of a Paracosm |
| 0:10:47 | Eric Hilton | Trust a Thief | The Impossible Silence |
| 0:14:34 | Evenfall | Moving While Motionless | Monsoon Winds |
| 0:18:59 | darkDARK | Kill the Light | Feel So Much |
| 0:22:19 | Lars Leonhard | Quasar | Spaceflight |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:00 | Interview: Kevin Keller | ||
| 0:43:14 | Kevin Keller | Just Over The Ridge | The Front Porch Of Heaven |
| 0:50:02 | Ryan Dugre | Shining | Living Language |
| 0:54:43 | Olafur Arnalds | Loom (feat. Bonobo) | Some Kind of Peace |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:01 | Aimee Mann | Avalanche | Avalanche (Single) |
| 1:06:01 | YAIMA | Time is All We Have ( Acoustic ) | C E R E M O N I A |
| 1:12:46 | Emancipator | She Gone To The River (Murge Remix) | Mountain of Memory Remixes |
| 1:17:02 | Ane Brun | Gentle Wind of Gratitude | How Beauty Holds the Hand of Sorrow |
| 1:21:01 | Brian Eno | Beach Sequence | Film Music 1976-2020 |
| 1:24:19 | Jenny O. | What About That Day | New Truth |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:01 | Veinmelter | All the Waves | Still in the Air |
| 1:34:57 | Reinhardt Buhr | Salvation | The Final Movement |
| 1:48:00 | break | ||
| 1:48:31 | Shunia | Sa Re Sa Sa | Breeze At Dawn |
| 1:51:27 | Robert Rich | Neurogenesis | Neurogenesis |
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