I didn’t even know they had these and it seems a little late in the game, but Prog Magazine, a journal in the UK with a reported readership of about 25,000, sponsored their first Progressive Music Awards show. As the first, they understandably acknowledged a lot of the pioneers in the field, granting awards to…
Reviews & Commentary
Sshhhhhhh. John Cage at 100.
John Cage would’ve been 100 today. He died in 1992, but his influence continues to echo through music. Many of the musicians on Echoes still cite Cage as an inspiration. As recently as yesterday on Echoes, Franco Falsini of Sensations Fix recalled hearing Cage in the early 1970s. John Cage had this concept, “I wanted to…
CD of the Month, Interview Podcast
Dead Can Dance-CD of the Month.
[Hear Dead Can Dance’s Anastasis featured tonight on Echoes.] Anastasis is Greek for “resurrection” and that’s what happens here with Dead Can Dance, the gothic rock band who took deep atmospheres, ritual songs and supralingua dialects to ecstatic, transcendent heights in the 1980s and 90s. There hasn’t been any new music from the band since founders…
Best Of
Summer Ends on Ambient Note: Echoes Top 25 for August.
Four recent CD of the month selections are in the Top Ten of the Echoes Top 25 for August, including our number one CD, Sebastian Plano’s The Arrhythmical Part of Hearts, an album that is sure to be in our Top 25 year end list. ECHOES TOP 25 FOR AUGUST Sebastian Plano – The Arrhythmical…
Program Highlights
Julia Holter in a Blur
Electro-singer-songwriter Julia Holter has a recent album, Ekstasis and a new video for “Goddes Eyes 1” a haunting track of vocoder vox and “My Sex” beat. Julia is scheduled for a live session on Echoes. ~© 2012 John Diliberto ((( echoes ))) You get great CDs like Sebastian Plano’s The Arrhythmical Part of Hearts by…
Program Highlights
Neil Armstrong, Brian Eno, Icebreaker, Apollo.
Tonight on Echoes we’ll be airing an interview with Icebreaker and BJ Cole talking about their beautiful cover of Brian’s Eno’s 1983 collaboration with Roger Eno and Daniel Lanois, Apollo-Atmospheres and Soundtracks. Our show was recorded last Friday, making it to early too comment on the passing of Neil Armstrong, the first man to set…
Interview Podcast
Alu’s Psychosis Cabaret
The Echoes Podcast with Alu is now up on iTunes. Take a step inside the fascinating world of this gifted singer-songwriter who’s music embodies electronica, cabaret and goth in a joyful music with a chilling undertow. Here she is talking about her song “In the Mausoleum” from her new CD, Madhouse Masquerade. Alu: It’s actually…
Reviews & Commentary
Pitchfork Speaks; And So It Must Be.
The People’s List Top 200 Albums from the First 15 Years of Pitchfork Pitchfork has put their imprimatur on the best albums of the last 15 years. So many curious things about this list. Only about 10 of the artists are musicians we’ve played on Echoes, which on one hand, doesn’t mean much but on the other,…
Reviews & Commentary
It’s An Eno World: Roxy Retro and Documentary
Some interesting news in the Eno World. They’ve just released a eluxe box set of all the Roxy Music studio CDS, The Complete Studio Recordings 1972 – 1982, which gives us a chance anew to hear how groundbreaking this group was, especially on the first two albums and Avalon. But cooler than that is the Brian…
Reviews & Commentary
10 Greatest Rock Songs
Every year Echoes affiliate WXPN, 88.5FM has listeners vote on their list of the Best885 whatever, albums, road songs, artists, etc. And every year they ask hosts to submit their top ten choices. This year, they’ve made the impossible task of listing the 885 Greatest Rock Songs. I mean, come on! This list could go…