We hear features from 7 of the performers at Big Ears 2015 including Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Max Richter, William Tyler, Silver Apples, and Bill Frisell.
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Miranda Lee Richards is a singer-songwrite, creating dreamy, psychedelic hued songs on her 3rd album, Echoes of the Dreamtime. It’s the Echoes March CD of the Month.
From the bedroom to the headroom, The American Dollar are a duo out of New York making a dynamic post-rock sound that has been heard on TV, commercials and films. Their latest CD, Across the Oceans is the Echoes February CD of the Month
Paul Kantner, one of the founders of the psychedelic rock group, The Jefferson Airplane, dies at age 74.
Paul Bley was a singular voice in jazz and can be credited with discovering Ornette Coleman, Jaco Pastorius and Pat Metheny. He passed on January 3 at age 83. John Diliberto remembers this forgotten artist.
Brian Eno’s Discreet Music is the seminal work of ambient music. Now Contact has taken this electronic piece and arranged it for acoustic instruments. Contact’s Discreet Music is the Echoes CD of the Month.
It’s another Grammy Award season. The nominees has been announced and it seems like every year is more mundane than the one before when it comes to new music, adventurous music and even New Age music.
Steve Hackett was the guitarist of the glory years of the progressive rock group, Genesis and he has continued in that mode with some of the most exhilarating guitar playing of the last 30 years. On his latest concert tour, From Acolyte to Wolflight, Hackett plays solo music old and new plus a set of Genesis materiel. He landed at the Keswick Theater in Glenside, PA on 11/20.
Brian Eno’s Discreet Music is the first bud in the growing expanse of ambient music. And now, the Toronto ensemble, Contact, has taken this electronic work and transformed it into a mesmerizing 60 minute acoustic rendering.