Todd Boston’s Touched by the Sun is Echoes June CD of the Month Hear an interview with Todd Boston Tuesday, 10/9/2012 on Echoes. In June, the month when the sun has unchallenged dominion, guitarist Todd Boston has released the perfect album for summer days. Touched by the Sun is a thematic suite centered on images…
Reviews & Commentary
Phil Collin’s Alamo.
Apparently Genesis drummer/singer and pop crooner Phil Collins is an American history buff He’s written a pricey book called The Alamo and Beyond: A Collector’s Journey and it’s not about his conflicts with Peter Gabriel, his flight from Genesis or his still-born film career. It’s about the Alamo of Jim Bowie & Davey Crockett. This…
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Laurie Anderson Freefalls with HTC AD
I know I’m a little late but since no one in my limited circle has mentioned it, I thought I would. Have you heard Laurie Anderson’s “O Superman” used in an HTC phone commercial? I’m confused with whether this is the hippest thing in the world or most lamentable. Should I be cheering that a…
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Dr. Who Gets Pink Floyd Treatment
The “Dr. Who Theme” is pretty iconic for English musicians. Written by Ron Grainer and realized by Delia Derbyshire, it was one of the first electronic TV scores and plugged in several generations of electronic musicians. I just ran across this video by a group called Traffic Experiment. It’s a Pink Floyd “Echoes” era style…
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Ten Observations for Electronic Musicians
I’ve been following electronic music since the early 1970s and have explored its growth and breadth going back to the musique concrete of Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henryto the latest ambient/techno/electronica/glitch extrapolations. More than almost any other music form, electronic music embodies the spirit of creation. Every generation births new forms, technologies and sounds. But…
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Prog Heaven Past & Future coming to Philly.
Philadelphia, where Echoes is based, will be experiencing a wave of progressive music past and present in the coming months. From the past, Tangerine Dream, UK and Van Der Graaf Generator. Reflecting the past, Broekhuis, Keller & Schonwalder. From the present, Sigur Ros, Dead Can Dance (well, kind between past & present), Radiohead and Iona. …
Program Highlights
Coyote Jump-Global Native Chamber Music.
Hear Coyote Jump interviewed tonight on Echoes (8/9/2012) Coyote Jump’s debut album, Waking from the Roots, is slightly deceiving. The cover, with its neo-primitive rendering of a coyote, looks like a typical Canyon Records sleeve for a Pow-Wow or Peyote song album. However, the first notes of a Middle Eastern frame drum and buzz stick…
Best Of
Stellar Space and Western Space in Echoes Top 25.
Thierry David’s Stellar Connection Leads Echoes Top 25 for April. But right behind it is Eric Tingstad’s Badlands, his second foray into ambient Americana. That’s the kind of contrast you’ll find in the Echoes Top 25 for April, which this month includes a collaboration in cathedral reverb between Eraldo Bernocchi, Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd;…
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Beach Boys Return via Middle of the Road
The Beach Boys reunited for the Grammys and are currently readying a new album and tour. I was a Beach Boys fan. The first single I ever bought was “Help Me, Rhonda.” Actually, my grandmother bought it for me while we shopped at Grants Department store in Wilmington, Mass. Although I think Pet Sounds…
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Lefsetz claims electronic music Next Big Thing.
For those who don’t know, Bob Lefsetz is a music crank who has gotten a voluminous amount of attention lately for his blogged rants on music and the music industry. He’s even a speaker at the NON-Commvention this year in Philadelphia. I subscribe to his newsletter and got this one today with the subject line:…