John Diliberto

Pat Metheny’s Mechanical Orchestra

https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-PatMetheny2010.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPat Metheny Goes Past Old School to Antique School. Hear the audio version of this interview with music in the Echoes Podcast.   You can hear the full interview with Pat Metheny with Orchestrion demo and Metheny’s music here. As a child, I remember  visiting Clark’s Trading Post…

Before Tangerine Dream: The Ones

Before there was Tangerine Dream, there was a group called The Ones with Dream founder Edgar Froese.    I’d never heard them, but courtesy of synthesist Paul Ellis, I found this track up on YouTube.  This is from the only single that they released and it’s pure “Green Tambourine” and “Incense & Peppermints”-style psychedelic pop.  In…

Those Who Left the Planet in 2009

I hadn’t thought of doing one of those retrospectives looking back at artists who left us in 2009.  There have been times in the past couple of years when I’ve felt the Echoes Blog was becoming the Death Blog.  But a list on Planet Origo got me to thinking that before 2009 is completely in…

ARC Ascends-Mark Shreeve & Ian Boddy

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20100113.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe Electronic Duo Arc Make Space Music the Old FashionedWway In the large two story great room of Alpenhof Bed & Breakfast in Media, Pennsylvania, you’d normally be admiring the antique  chandeliers and wood carved images or relaxing in front of the  white stucco fireplace and grand piano.…

Kronos Quartet-Always Electric

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20100106.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSKronos Quartet Began plugged in and they’re still attuned to the wired world. You can hear an Audio Version of thius Blog with music from Kronos. In 1980 the Kronos Quartet did something string quartets don’t do.  They played Jimi Hendrix‘s “Purple Haze.”  Some 30 years later, they’re…

Jimmy Wahlsteen 181st Songs Echoes CD of the Month for January

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091230.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSwedish musician Jimmy Wahlsteen Channels Pop into Fingerstyle Guitar. You can hear an Audio Version of this blog, with Jimmy Wahlsteen’s music. On the cover of his debut album, 181st Songs, Jimmy Wahlsteen just looks too stylish to be a fingerstyle guitar slinger.  GQ poses and an androgynous…

Patrick O’Hearn #3 of 20 Icons of Echoes

This past fall Echoes listeners voted on 20 Icons for 20 Years of Echoes.   Tonight we’ll be featuring their #3 selection on that list, Patrick O’Hearn. Two See a list of 5 Essential Patrick O’Hearn Albums, go here. Two see the complete list of 20 Icons of Echoes, go here. John Diliberto ((( echoes )))

Anna Schaad’s Electronica Love Song

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091223.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA Celtic Violinist, Electronica Tone Poem s and Jet Pilots. You can hear an audio version of this Echoes Blog, with Anna Schaad‘s music On the surface, violinist Anna Schaad might seem like a New Age artist with Loreena McKennitt aspirations.  Her first three albums often found her…