Ambient Chamber Music Master pieces Echoes Top 25 for April Ólafur Arnald‘s For Now I Am Winter, the Echoes CD of the Month for April, and Rhian Sheehan‘s Stories from Elsewhere top our list for April and that’s little surprise since both are masterpieces of Ambient Chamber Music. One musician comes from Iceland, the other…
Interview Podcast
Rhian Sheehan’s Music Box Podcast
Hear Rhian Sheehan’s interview in the Echoes Podcast. New Zealand artist Rhian Sheehan has been releasing electronic albums since 2001, but he started out playing acoustic guitar. He was good enough to jam with finger-style guitar icon, Tommy Emmanuel. But after forays into pure electronic music he has emerged with a sound that brings guitars,…
Interview Podcast
Shaman’s Dream Interview Podcast from Echoes
Hear Shaman’s Dream Interviewed in Echoes Podcast Craig Kohland and Evan Bartholomew, best known as Bluetech, come from different worlds. Kohland began in the New Age Scene, playing percussion with his group, Shaman’s Dream and creating trance global grooves. Bluetech began in the techno and electronic world settling in a career that oscillates between seductive…
Reviews & Commentary
The Middle of the Road Turns Left: Tom Jones & Petula Clark.
In the 1960s, there was the pop music I listened to: Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, etc. Then there was the pop music my parents listened to: Wayne Newton, Engelbert Humperdinck, Jim Reeves. Tom Jones and Petula Clark stradled that line but with a decided tilt toward the latter camp. Theirs was the sound…
Interview Podcast
Seti the First & Markophones
Download the Podcast of Echoes Interview with Seti the First. It’s been nearly 40 years since the Penguin Café Orchestra released their debut album, but their music is still having an influence on modern composers who are making a music between worlds, part classical, part folk and part experimental. Seti the First is an Irish…
Program Highlights
The Black Angels’ Joyful Darkness.
Black Angels Trip Out at Union Transfer Austin psychedelic rockers The Black Angels create a sound that weaves joy and darkness layered under waves of reverb and shuddering tremolo guitar. That sound was heard in full hallucinogenic effect last night at Union Transfer in Philadelphia. Playing behind their new CD, Indigo Meadow, the band essayed…
Reviews & Commentary
Paul Williams Rock Journalist, R.I.P.
Paul Williams dies at 64. The founder of Crawdaddy Magazine and one of the first rock journalists passes early. David Fricke wrote a beautiful remembrance at Rollingstone.com Fricke’s experience with Williams echoes my own, which I blogged about 4 years ago. I’m re-blogging it here. An Homage to Paul Williams-Godfather of Rock Criticism There are…
Interview Podcast
Banco De Gaia Mythic Sound
Hear interview with Banco De Gaia in Echoes Podcast. Banco de Gaia fired one of the first shots of ethno-techno sounds into the previously electronic dominated rave culture of the early 1990s. Since then, he’s built a body of work by sampling the body’s of work from other musicians as well as sounds from the…
CD of the Month, Interview Podcast
Ólafur Arnalds’ Winter Chill
ÓLAFUR ARNALDS’ FOR NOW I AM WINTER ECHOES APRIL CD OF THE MONTH Hear Ólafur Arnalds talk about For Now I Am Winter on Tuesday May 13 on Echoes Hear this review in the Echoes Podcast Icelandic artists are subjected to many clichés: most commonly that their music reflects the frozen north, land of glaciers,…
Program Highlights
Vangelis at 70
10 Essential Vangelis CDs Celebrate the 70th birthday of Vangelis, composer of Chariots of Fires tonight on Echoes. In 2009 I posted this list of 10 Essential Vangelis CDs when we ran our Vangelis: Then & Now segment. Tonight, Thursday, March 28, on the eve of his 70th birthday, you can hear a profile of…