This past Tuesday we ran our interview with Scott Hansen of Tycho, but many of you probably missed it while you were battling Hurricane Sandy. Well, now you can hear it in all its glory as an Echoes Podcast. Here’s a taste of it below. For most of the last decade there has been a…
Best Of
Post-Rock Dominates Echoes Top 25 for October.
Hans Christian & Harry Manx’s You Are the Music of My Silence leads the Echoes Top 25 for October. Their dreamy Indian evocations, the Echoes CD of the Month for October, floats like a seagull above a roiling ocean of post & alt-rock bands in the Top Ten. Tycho, All India Radio, Balmorhea, Hammock, The…
Program Highlights
Reflect on WaterSky: Echoes November CD of the Month.
Hear music from Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy’s Watersky and an interview with the artists tonight, Monday 11/5 Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy are important figures in different music worlds. Johnson came to renown as a modern instrumental keyboardist with a taste for Celtic music and a long-running partnership with Irish flutist Brian Dunning. Keaggy…
Interview Podcast
Azure Ray’s Blue Moods-Echoes Podcast
Hear a podcast of the Echoes Interview with Azure Ray. In another time, Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink could’ve been conventional singer songwriters plucking guitars, but since their debut album as Azure Ray in 2001, there’s always been a richness to their arrangements that perfectly matched the wrap-around harmonies of their voices. “We’re feminists, so…
Reviews & Commentary
A New Age Shaman’s Last Dance.
Gabrielle Roth passes at age 71. Gabrielle Roth wouldn’t have won any musician polls. She didn’t really play anything beyond some percussion. Yet she was responsible for nearly two dozen albums over the last 20 years or so. She referred to herself as an urban shaman and with the floating personnel of her ensemble, Gabrielle…
Interview Podcast
SHEL’s Acoustic Dream Pop.
Download Podcast of Echoes SHEL interview. The band called SHEL is from a generation of musicians who grew up on their parents record collections. The four sisters from Colorado, ranging from 18 to 24 years old, were listening to folk music and classic rock as much as contemporary music, maybe more. They’ve created a charming…
Interview Podcast, Reviews & Commentary
Two Sides of Progressive Rock-Gentle Giant & Styx
This past week saw a study in Progressive Rock contrasts when two bands from the classic progressive rock era, Three Friends, A.K.A. Gentle Giant and Styx came through the Philadelphia area. Gentle Giant represented the adventurous experimental side of Progressive Rock, mixing jazz, blues, madrigals and classical music into a heady mix of time signature…
Reviews & Commentary
A Lesson in Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin Celebration Day returns for 1 screening nationwide November 13. Go to Led Zeppelin Website for theater listings. Did you ever have trouble explaining the appeal of Led Zeppelin to someone? Maybe your kid, the smart ass heavy metal dude in your office, the alt-rock snob college friend or your new girlfriend who thinks that…
Interview Podcast, Reviews & Commentary
Samsara-What Goes Around….
Here the Echoes Samsara Interview on Echoes weekend stations. Echoes Samsara Echoes Podcast: Listen Here. Samsara is the third feature film from director Ron Fricke and producer Mark Magidson. Like their previous movies, it explores grand concepts with grand images and grand music. Samsara is Sanskrit for “continuous flow”, the repeating cycle of birth, life,…
Living Room Concerts, Program Highlights
David Wright Live On Echoes.
Tonight on Echoes we’ve got David Wright coming into the Echoes Living Room to play live. This veteran English synthesist has been recording space music opuses since 1989 and has released 2 dozen solo albums plus recordings with Code Indigo and Callisto. David’s music is initially inspired by artists like Vangelis and Klaus Schulze, but…