This in from Nervenet.com The just recently released special edition box set of the U2 concert registration ” 360 degrees at the Rose Bowl” contains a 7 inch vinyl single which is a new Eno produced U2 song. It’s titled “Soon” and runs for only about 2 minutes ( on both sides) The liner notes…
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5 Essential Harold Budd CDs.
Five Essential Harold Budd CDs for Deep Listening of Pretty MusicSilence Required: The Best of Harold Budd, an Icon of Echoes. Harold Budd is a romantic with a classicist’s soul and an experimenter’s openness to chance. He’s never opted for the obvious ploys for the heartstrings. Instead, Budd explores the geometry of passion, the calculus…
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Helpling & Jenkins-The Crossing: Echoes September CD of the Month.
Cinematic music in search of an epic film. The summer of 2010 may not be remembered for many great movies, (Inception notwithstanding), but David Helpling and Jon Jenkins have brought us a great soundtrack. It’s just that movie will be in your imagination. Mixing keyboards, guitars and programming, their latest CD, The Crossing states its…
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Echoes August Top 25
Matthew Schoening leads the looping cellists to head of Echoes August Top 25 Summer closes with another strong Echoes Top 25 headed up by our August CD of the Month, Matthew Schoening’s Elements. Not far behind it is our CD of the Month from July, Carmen Rizzo’s Looking Through Leaves, something we’ll be doing in…
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5 Best Ulrich Schnauss CDs (Minus-1)
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-UlrichSchnauss.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSI usually use Five Best Albums for Icons of Echoes, but Ulrich Schnauss has only three proper albums, one remix collection and EPs. So this is The Five Best Ulrich Schnauss CDs (Minus-1). The thing is, each one is nearly perfection. Ulrich Schnauss is a German electronic artist…
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Parasites of the Western World.
Post-Punk-Psychedelic Space from 1978 My wife, Kimberly Haas, sent me a text message from a record store in New York City. “We stopped in a used vinyl store. What LP would earn this description? “Fucked up longhaired love child of Chrome and Cluster from 1978.” Hint: An obscure LP we used to play one track…
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Rollover Eno, Justin Bieber’s Ambient Epic
In the tradition of John Oswald’s Plunderphonics and Hans Zimmer’s recent slo-mo take on Edith Piaf’s rendition of “Non, je ne Regrette Rien,” in Inception, here’s a song by pop sensation, Justin Bieber, “U Smile” slowed down 800% by an artist who records as Shamantis. Think Brian Eno‘s Music for Airports “2/1″ and “1/2″, Sigur…
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Five Adventures from David Arkenstone
A Symphonic Story Teller: David Arkenstone, #18 of 20 Icons of Echoes David Arkenstone has released over forty albums in the last quarter century, although many of them aren’t recorded under his name like his Ah*Nee*Mah project with his ex-wife, Diane Arkenstone. He’s an eclectic and prolific multi-instrumentalist and composer with classical aspirations, a rockers…
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MoogFest-Just Another Alt-Rock Music Festival
I was having doubts about Moogfest from the start, but now that the final line-up is solidifying, it’s clear that this is not a celebration of the Moog, its history and the music it spawned. It’s just another hipster alt-rock festival along the lines of the Pitchfork Music Festival, Bonaroo, Coachella, etc. Nothing wrong…
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All is Neu Again- Michael Rother & Hallogallo Live
Michael Rother Plays the Music of Neu, Harmonia and Michael RotherNEU! MARCHES BACK It was a mesmerizing evening of non-stop driving groove and ecstatic electric guitar when Michael Rother brought in his Hallogallo 2010 group to Philadelphia last night at International House. Michael Rother was a founding member of the German electro-groove duo called Neu!…