Spirit was a psychedelic group who released their debut album 50 years ago. It still sounds like a new world of music 5 decades later. Read about this sometimes forgotten band.
Reviews & Commentary
A Flash of the Spirit-50 Years Later
Program Highlights
Music Overload-Too Much Music. Can’t stop Listening. Can’t Stop Acquiring.
Music collecting is a passion, but it’s also an obsession. In a captivating article on NPR Music, James Jackson Toth analyzes his own decent into music addiction.
Reviews & Commentary
New Video from Air’s JB Dunckel
The French duo Air has been pretty quiet this decade but keyboardist and singer JB Dunckel has a new dreamy single out for the song “Hold On” ahead of of his album, H+.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Gracie and Rachel Album Review
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The debut album by Gracie Coates and Rachel Ruggles is the Echoes CD of the Month for January 2018. Here a review of this beautiful chamber pop masterpiece in the Echoes Podcast.
Reviews & Commentary
Sufjan Stevens Video for Life With Dignity
Sufjan Stevens, an artist who pushes the envelope with ethereal arrangements while still making evocative songs, releases a video from his Greatest Gift album called “Life with Dignity.”
Reviews & Commentary
Moody Blues Founding Member Ray Thomas R.I.P. 1/4/2018
Ray Thomas, flutist, singer and composer for The Moody Blues, has left the planet.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Jeff Rona’s Projector
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Film composer Jeff Rona has worked with Hans Zimmer, Lisa Gerrard and Jon Hassell. Now he has his first solo album after 4 decades in music. He talks about “Projector” in Echoes Podcast.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Thomas Dolby
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Thomas Dolby was an early avatar of electro-pop with hits like “She Blinded Me with Science” but now he’s a Professor at the Peabody Institute. We talk to him in the Echoes Podcast.
Reviews & Commentary
Echoes in Memoriam 2017: Those Who Left the Planet
As we end the year, John Diliberto looks back on Echoes musicians who left the planet in 2017. They range from the iconic to the obscure, but all left their vibrations on the planet.
CD of the Month
Echoes January CD of the Month: Gracie and Rachel
The debut album by Gracie Coates and Rachel Ruggles is the Echoes CD of the Month for January 2018. They are creating a chamber pop meeting of singer-songwriters and Erik Satie.