I don’t follow March Basketball Madness much, but I do like March Music Madness and it’s been a great month for music on Echoes beginning with our number one CD, In A Time Lapse by Ludovico Einaudi. It was our March CD of the Month. If Ludovico Einaudi represents the best of Ambient Chamber Music,…
Program Highlights
The Mellow is Over for Sigur Rós.
Sigur Rós has announced a new CD for June, Kveikur recorded with their new Trio configuration. Judging from this first song, symphonic slab, crushing distressed bass and exhortation vocals, the mellow of their previous album Valtari is over. There’s even a conventional hook chorus on this one. ~John Diliberto ((( echoes ))) Sign up for…
Interview Podcast
Tina Malia’s Electronic Epiphany on Echoes
Hear Tina Malia’s Electronic Epiphany tonight on Echoes. When we first met Tina Malia in 2001, she was writing ethereal singer-songwriter tunes while gearing up for intoning kirtan chants with Jai Uttal. All of it was based in acoustic sounds. But on her new CD, The Lost Frontier, Malia has sculpted an album of deep…
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Kevin Keller’s 1 Minute Dance Miniatures.
Kevin Keller is one of our favorite ambient chamber music composers. He’s just released on internet video a series of 1 minute compositions set to dance works and videos by producer Kyla Ernst-Alper. As with all of Keller’s work, the music is emotionally concise and cut with laser-knife precision and he’s found a perfect visual…
Reviews & Commentary
Ten 1967 Pop Songs that Shaped Prog-Rock.
There’s a fun article in Pop Matters called Ten Songs From 1967 That Shaped Prog-Rock. Writer Sean Murphy knocks out his reasons for songs you might not expect to have any bearing on Progressive Rock, like The Beach Boys’ “Heroes & Villains,” which he put at number one. I agree with his choice, although he…
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Watermark High Electro-Psych Video
The Watermark High is the recording persona of Paul van der Walt from Johannesburg, South Africa. We’ve been playing his melodic electronica for the last year or so on Echoes. He’s just released a cool video for the song “The Disconnect” You can check out his other music on SoundCloud. ~John Diliberto ((( echoes )))…
Interview Podcast
Ulrich Schnauss Echoes Podcast Interview.
German electronic musician Ulrich Schnauss talks about religion, space music and a return to electronic sound in the Echoes Podcast. Five years after his stormy, end-of-the-world electro-shoegaze treatise called Goodbye, German downtempo synth scientist Ulrich Schnauss returns with a new CD. Gone are the layers of distorted sound, aggressive grooves and over-driven guitar timbres that…
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Ambicon-Space Music Festival
AMBICON – A GATHERING OF THE SPACE TRIBES As I write this, hoards of musicians, media people and fans are gathering in Austin, Texas for the South By Southwest Festival (SXSW), an annual orgy of rock in almost all, but mostly alternative, forms. It’s a place of long riotous nights and over-hyped bands playing anywhere…
Reviews & Commentary
Alvin Lee Goes Home R.I.P.
Alvin Lee Founder & Guitarist of Ten Years After Passes I remember watching The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson around 1969. I think it was Steve Lawrence, or another of those loungey Vegas entertainers Carson loved back then, was on the show talking about hanging out with this group Ten Years After. He was shocked…
CD of the Month
Ludovico Einaudi’s 21st Century Classicism-Echoes CD of the Month
Ludovico Einaudi’s In A Time Lapse Echoes March CD of the Month Hear an audio version of this review with music in the Echoes Podcast. Hear In a Time Lapse featured this weekend 3/8-10/2013 on Echoes. You could pretty much stop listening to Ludovico Einaudi’s new album In a Time Lapse after the second track…