After a one year hiatus, the Best of Echoes Listener Poll returns as the Echoes audience votes for their favorite Echoes CDs of this past year. We don’t know what it will be yet.
Playlists
Tuesday, December 15th, 2015-Echoes Program 1550B
Reviews & Commentary
Matthew Shipp Live in Philadelphia
Pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist Michael Bisio essay intimate jazz duets and torrential improvisations live in Philadelphia
Playlists
Monday, December 14, 2015-Echoes Program 1550A
Experience the holiday season with a different kind of soundtrack on Echoes’ Sonic Seasonings featuring Phil Keaggy & Jeff Johnson and Erik Wøllo.
Interview Podcast
Laurie Anderson in the Echoes Podcast
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Laurie Anderson is a true icon of modern music, creating a sound that brings together cultural observations, acute humor and ambient textures. Anderson is hitting a new period of creativity with large-scale works like Landfall, Habeas Corpus and her new album, and film, Heart of a Dog.
Playlists
Weekend, December 12 & 13, 2015-Echoes Program 1549A
Smoke Fairies have released the best seasonal album of 2015 with Wild Winter. It’s a different kind of winter CD, and it’s beautiful. Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies come into Echoes to play music from Wild Winter and some earlier songs live.
Playlists
Friday, December 11th, 2015 – Echoes Program 1549E
On a Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear from two albums with cosmic themes, but each comes from a very different perspective. We’ll hear from Zero One’s trippy “Signals” and Daniel Hart’s score to “Comet”.
Best Of
John Diliberto’s Top 25 Albums for 2015
Echoes host John Diliberto has picked his Top 25 albums of 2015. They range from dream pop to sequencer dervishes to ambient chamber music to fusion and beyond.
Playlists
Thursday, December 10th, 2015-Echoes Program 1549D
Two dream pop singers approach moody songs from different directions. Warpaint bassist Jennylee goes toward dark and gothic minimalism while Maia Vidal brings a rhythmic vitality to her fragile songs.
Playlists
Wednesday, December 9th, 2015-Echoes Program 1549C
2015 began with the unexpected death of Edgar Froese, the founding member of the German electronic band, Tangerine Dream. 2015 also saw the anniversary of two influential Tangerine Dream albums, Rubycon and Ricochet.
Echoes Online, Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes: Light Patterns
An uninterrupted six-hour soundscape featuring music by Mark Isham, Tangerine Dream, George Winston, Radium 88, and many more.