Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co. Re-opens for Business. Back about 1972, David Borden founded the trio, Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece, Co. They were arguably one of the first performing electronic ensembles and used Moog Modular synthesizers and other keyboards, all pre-computer, pre-digital and live. They preceded groups like Tangerine Dream in creating, cyclical, sequencer based…
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Agnes Obel leads Philly Concerts This Week.
Concerts You Should See in Philly This Week LAST WEEK Henry Threadgill performed a nice, if overly cerebral set in the second of Ars Novas AACM series. He showed you can still be out there and hit a groove. I just wish he did it more often. Dustin O’Halloran-He fought bar noise, fire engines and…
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Summer Brings Winterlight Echoes June CD of the Month
Echoes June CD of the Month: A Perfect CD of Melancholy Electronica by Winterlight Winterlight interviewed tonight, 7-18-11 on Echoes The name is decidedly out of season but the music of Winterlight will soothe a sun-seared mind on the hottest summer day, so maybe it is an appropriate selection for the June Echoes CD of…
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Moby Destroys Echoes Top 25for May.
Moby’s Destroyed Tops Echoes Top 25 for May No surprise that Moby’s Destroyed was #1 on the Echoes Top 25 for May. It was the Echoes CD of the Month. Electronic music dominates the Top 10 with a surprise at #2, Divine Matrix’s Invisible Landscape leaping in. This album of melodic glitch-flecked music came out…
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Tangerine Dream Headlines Moogfest 2011.
MOOGFEST 2011, OCTOBER 28-30 IN ASHEVILLE, NC, ANNOUNCES INITIAL LINEUP! THE FLAMING LIPS, PASSION PIT, STS9, GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY, CRYSTAL CASTLES, CHROMEO, BATTLES, UMPHREY’S MCGEE, MAYER HAWTHORNE & THE COUNTY, M83, TIM HECKER, TORO Y MOI, AUSTRA, MATTHEW DEAR, GOLD PANDA & more to play this year’s festival. In a battle of diametrically opposed electronics, German…
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New Eno Download
In the new marketing paradigm of dribbling out tracks and downloads to gin up excitement for new releases, Brian Eno has let out a non-album track from the sessions for his forthcoming album of poetry-cum-glitch electronics, Drums Between Bells. This one features Rick Holland’s words, but Eno’s vocals and it’s called “Imagine New Times.” It’s…
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Colin Vallon Trios Parlour Room Space Jazz.
Echoes will be recording a session with the Swiss jazz group, The Colin Vallon Trio tonight in Philadelphia at Turtle Studios. A new group to American shores, they have their own take on the chamber jazz sound favored by their label, ECM records as well as their late countrymen, E.S.T. I came across a video…
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Bouncing Bach in a Japanese Forest
This is a commercial, but it is such a beautiful commercial, and so perfectly Japanese and zen. John Diliberto (((echoes )))
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Destroyed by Moby: Echoes May CD of the Month.
Moby’s Destroyed is the Echoes May CD of the Month ***Hear interview with Moby tonight & tomorrow night on Echoes, June 13 & 14 and this weekend, June 18 & 20*** With Destroyed and his previous CD, Wait for Me, Moby has moved from an iconic electronic trendsetter to a singer-songwriter exploring personal stories with…
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Electric Violin Ragas Bow at the Top of Echoes
Vicki Richards’ She Vanishes Appears at the Head of Echoes Top 25 for April. The Echoes Top 25 for April is up and as usual, our CD of the Month’s tops the list and justifiably so. Vicki Richards’ She Vanishes is an impressive album that brings the early fusion sound into a new stage. In…