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…
CD of the Month
CD of The Month Poll Results.
We recently polled Echoes CD of the Month Club members about their favorite club CDs over the last year. As we get ready to think about our year end Best of Echoes poll, I thought everyone might enjoy reading some of the results. Overall, people seemed very happy with the CD of the Month Club…
Program Highlights
Post-Space Music From Tim Motzer & Bernhard Wöstheinrich
Space psychedelia descended on the Rotunda in Philadelphia last night. In the latest concert in the Event Horizon series, it was a three band show with PYXL8R, Groupthink and headlined by Tim Motzer & Bernhard Wöstheinrich. Tim Motzer is sonic experimentalist who you’ll find attending most of the outside music shows in Philadelphia from free…
CD of the Month
Eastern Moods for Echoes October CD of the Month
You can trace many movements in modern music back to The Beatles, and they are at the roots of Hans Christian and Harry Manx. Not The Beatles of “She Loves You,” but the eastern-influenced Beatles of “Tomorrow Never Knows” and especially “Within You Without You.” Musicians like the German-born Christian and English-born Manx were inspired…
Best Of, CD of the Month
Dead Can Dance Rise to Echoes Top 25 for September.
Dead Can Dance resurrects themselves to the top of the the Echoes Top 25 for September with their album, Anastasis. Anastasis means resurrection and it was the Echoes CD of the Month for September. Sounds from the Ground returns with a surprising showing at number two with their album, Widerworld and a couple of albums…
Program Highlights
Brian Eno Goes Towards the Light
No, Brian Eno didn’t die. His new album is called Lux which is a measurement of light. Due out in November, it’s some deep ambient music closer in style to Music for Airports than anything recent. No music out yet, but….. The music is actually based on and installation he has at the Great…
Reviews & Commentary
Andy Williams Crosses Moon River to the Heavens
I always thought of “Moon River” as the first space music song. Even in 1961, when Andy Williams recorded it, I knew this was music from another era, but something about Johnny Mercer’s lyrics and Henry Mancini’s sweeping orchestration always suggested something beyond this earth to me. Just now I had a new spacey ambient…
Program Highlights
Bombay Dub Orchestra Remixed and Wrecked.
Bombay Dub Orchestra have been fusing eastern and electronic music for several years now and doing it with a grace and elegance that is unparalleled. I still go back to their 2006 eponymous debut album which sounds as fresh now as it did then. Their mix of eastern modes and musicians, with lush strings…