A lot of people have recorded albums and songs called Echoes, and I sometimes thank them for naming their recording after the show. That actually hasn’t been their intent, except for Tim Farrell’s “Four Echoes” (from his album, Skydancer) an inside joke when I told him that any untitled song played live on the show…
Reviews & Commentary
The Monkees’ Davy Jones Has Left the Set
DAVY JONES SINGS HIS LAST HEY HEY Davy Jones (30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012) passes at 66 from a reported heart attack. I dug Mickey Dolenz more and he definitely got the best songs, and I appreciated Michael Nesmith more later on, but in 1965, when I was in 6th grade, I loved…
CD of the Month
Air’s Safari to the Moon.
The Echoes March CD of the Month: Air’s Le Voyage Dans La Lune Hear Air’s Le Voyage Dans La Lune featured on Echoes Monday March 5 The duo called Air is one the most influential acts to come out of France since Jean-Michel Jarre in the early 1970s. Their debut album, Moon Safari is an…
Best Of
Slack-Key & Tapping Guitar Lead Echoes Top 25
Acoustic Guitars Dominate Echoes February Soundscape It’s been an electronic year so far, but for February, an acoustic guitar album by Pino Forastiere and a soundtrack dominated by Hawaiian Slack-Key guitar were all over Echoes Top 25 for February . Forastiere’s From 1-8 was the Echoes CD of the Month for February and it remains…
Program Highlights, Reviews & Commentary
Rhian Sheehan vs Hammock
Rhian Sheehan is a wonderful ambient composer from New Zealand. His album, Standing in Silence was one of our favorites on Echoes a couple of years ago with his mixing of found sound and synthesizer cycles. He’s just collaborated with one of our favorite ambient guitar bands, Hammock, from Nashville. The original song is from…
Reviews & Commentary
Harold Budd Tribute
The OKTAF RECORDS label is putting out what looks to be a very promising tribute album to Harold Budd with people like Biosphere, Marsen Jules, and several artists I’m less familiar with. Here’s the Press Release: With “Lost In The Humming Air – Music inspired by Harold Budd” oktaf records announces an amazing collection of…
Program Highlights
Echoes Video Valentines
I posted a couple of Valentine’s Videos on Facebook and it got me looking for other videos of music I’ll be playing tonight on Echoes of the Heart. You can create your own images tonight, but here’s some to get you in that Echoes of the Heart frame of mind. Air is a really good…
Reviews & Commentary
It’s 2009 and 2010 All Over As Grammy’s Goof Again in New Age.
In 2009 as the Grammy Awards were announced, I wrote a blog called Who is Henta and How Did She Get Nominated for A Grammy. With just a simple name-replacement and a couple of updates, I rewrote it in 2010 as Who is Zamora and How Did He Get Nominated for a Grammy? I didn’t…
Reviews & Commentary
Frankie Rose Goes Galactic.
Frankie Rose concocts a psychedelic mix of shoegaze moods, New Wave grandiosity and chorale serenity. Frankie Rose, previously recording as Frankie Rose and the Outs, was a drummer and singer in Dum Dum Girls and you can hear the Go-Gos-style summer of electro punk joyfulness that group had, but there is a darker more shoegazer…
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for January
Tino Izzo’s Morning Scapes Heads Up the Echoes Top 25 CDs for January. Tino Izzo’s Morning Scapes was an Echoes Top 25 CD even before it became the Echoes CD of the Month (read review and hear trax). It leads our January list as Echoes returned to a more normal mode after December’s holiday programming. …