Le Voyage Dans La Lune Lands in the Echoes Top 25 It was a trippy month in March in more ways than one, but none more so than Air’s Le Voyage Dans La Lune, their retro-psychedelic electronica soundtrack for the 1902 French silent film that was also the focal point of the movie Hugo. It…
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Pioneer Laurie Spiegel heard in The Hunger Games.
Fans of early electronic music will be interested in this tidbit from The Hunger Games, which uses an ancient piece from Laurie Spiegel. Read about it at wired.com I had some great interviews with Laurie in the 1980s for Totally Wired and maybe Electronic Musician. Always a smart and gracious artist. ~© 2012 John Diliberto…
Program Highlights
New Sigur Rós Crosses Ambient Ocean.
There’s a new Sigur Rós album coming out May 29, Valtari. There music has been all over HBO’s recently cancelled “Luck.” Here’s the first video from it for the song : “Ekki múkk” It gives new meaning to ambient video. Watch the ship come in. ~© 2012 John Diliberto ((( echoes ))) Join us on Facebook…
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Nearfest Exits, Farfest Enters
If you missed out on tickets for Nearfest Apocalypse, the final edition of this venerable festival, then hang on until October for Farfest, a four day progressive rock festival happening in Wilmington, Delaware at the Grand Opera House October 4-7. The festival has put together an impressive array of 70’s Progressive rock acts, all from…
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Vangelis Speaks
In early December, 2011 the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Forum took place in Doha, Qatar and as part of the festivities, Vangelis was invited to perform. He gave a rare interview for Al-Jazerra English, although not as rare as the interviewer claims when he says it’s the composers first televsion interview in 20 years. …
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DEAD CAN DANCE Return from the Grave.
It seemed like they’d never get together again. Even their 2005 reunion tour ended in acrimony, despite selling out every venue they played. But Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry are getting together again as Dead Can Dance. They’ve been recording new music since the middle of last year and are threatening an album, and have…
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A Song for Echoes
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…
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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…
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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…