A Celebration of Women in Music from the Echoes Spectrum for International Women’s Day This Saturday, March 8 is International Women’s Day and as we do each year, we focus this show on the sounds of women musicians. These days, that doesn’t seem as necessary as it did many years ago. Even 20 years back,…
Reviews & Commentary
Robert Ashley’s Perfect Life Ends
ROBERT ASHLEY PASSES AT 83 Well, it may not have been so perfect, but Perfect Lives, Private Parts was the name of Robert Ashley’s multi-part meditation on life. It was loosely called an opera, in the way that his contemporary, Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach was an opera, but less so. Robert Ashley was…
Program Highlights
Ane Brun Live on Echoes
Swedish singer-songwriter Ane Brun plays live on Echoes Do you know what the number one most Shazammed song was during this years Superbowl? It wasn’t anything by Bruno Mars or the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Instead, it was “Don’t Leave,” a gentle song from Norwegian born and Swedish based singer-songwriter Ane Brun. We featured an…
CD of the Month
Echoes March CD of the Month: Mark McGuire’s Along the Way
Mark McGuire Creates 21st Century Progressive Rock Opus for Echoes CD of the Month Old fans of progressive rock and space music might be forgiven if listening to Mark McGuire’s Along the Way takes them back to about 1975, calling up music like Ash Ra Tempel’s Inventions for Electric Guitar, Popol Vuh’s Seligpreisung or Can’s…
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James Hood’s Hang Meditation in Echoes Podcast
Hear Moodswings Maven James Hood in Echoes Podcast. One of my favorite albums of the 21st century remains the CD Horizontal by Moodswings. It was a perfect CD of ambient expanses, melodically tuned and atmospherically vast. The man behind that album was James Hood. After a lifetime in music, including playing drums with The Pretenders,…
Best Of
Guitar Splendor in Echoes Top 25
Erik Wøllo and Mark McGuire bring guitars back to Echoes Top 25 Erik Wøllo’s February CD of the Month, Timelines, leads Echoes Top 25. It’s a brilliant recording of layered guitar dreamscapes. Following close behind is our soon-to-be March CD of the Month, Mark McGuire’s Progressive Rock epic, Along the Way. You’ll be hearing more about…
Living Room Concerts
Pure Bathing Culture Live on Echoes
Portland’s Pure Bathing Culture Plays Live on Echoes Tonight. Tonight on Echoes, it’s dream pop from Portland when we hear Pure Bathing Culture playing live. The band is fronted by singer and keyboardist Sarah Versprille and guitarist Daniel Hindman. On their album, Moon Tides they merge 60s girl group harmonies with 80s electro-pop in a…
Reviews & Commentary
Coldplay Spaces Out
Seems like Coldplay is really spacing out on this new song called “Midnight.” They haven’t released any info about it except the video director, Mary Wigmore. But this is definitely as ambient as pop music can get. And singer Chris Martin seems ready to join the falsetto forces of Bon Iver, et al. John Diliberto…
Program Highlights
James Hood Hanging on a Hang
Moodswings Maven Trades Synthesizers for the Hang One of my favorite albums of the 21st century remains the CD Horizontal by Moodswings. It was a perfect CD of ambient expanses, melodically tuned and atmospherically vast. The man behind that album was James Hood. After a lifetime in music, including playing drums with The Pretenders, he…
Living Room Concerts
Priscilla Ahn Live on Echoes.
Singer-songwriter Priscilla Ahn Plays Live on Echoes Tonight. Hear another child of Echoes tonight when Priscilla Ahn plays live. The singer-songwriter grew up in Central Pennsylvania where she listened to Echoes on WITF in Harrisburg and WXPN in Philadelphia. She’s in LA now where she has been crafting introspective personal songs like “Dream” from her…