Pianist Margaret Leng Tan and Producer Dustin Hurt on the Legacy of John Cage. Hear the Echoes Podcast about John Cage. There are icons of modern music and then there are gods. John Cage was a god. Few composers have turned music on its head the way Cage did with compositions like “4’33”, his silent…
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Interview Podcast
Tycho’s Electronic Designs – Echoes Podcast.
This past Tuesday we ran our interview with Scott Hansen of Tycho, but many of you probably missed it while you were battling Hurricane Sandy. Well, now you can hear it in all its glory as an Echoes Podcast. Here’s a taste of it below. For most of the last decade there has been a…
Interview Podcast
Azure Ray’s Blue Moods-Echoes Podcast
Hear a podcast of the Echoes Interview with Azure Ray. In another time, Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink could’ve been conventional singer songwriters plucking guitars, but since their debut album as Azure Ray in 2001, there’s always been a richness to their arrangements that perfectly matched the wrap-around harmonies of their voices. “We’re feminists, so…
Interview Podcast
SHEL’s Acoustic Dream Pop.
Download Podcast of Echoes SHEL interview. The band called SHEL is from a generation of musicians who grew up on their parents record collections. The four sisters from Colorado, ranging from 18 to 24 years old, were listening to folk music and classic rock as much as contemporary music, maybe more. They’ve created a charming…
Interview Podcast, Reviews & Commentary
Two Sides of Progressive Rock-Gentle Giant & Styx
This past week saw a study in Progressive Rock contrasts when two bands from the classic progressive rock era, Three Friends, A.K.A. Gentle Giant and Styx came through the Philadelphia area. Gentle Giant represented the adventurous experimental side of Progressive Rock, mixing jazz, blues, madrigals and classical music into a heady mix of time signature…
Interview Podcast, Reviews & Commentary
Samsara-What Goes Around….
Here the Echoes Samsara Interview on Echoes weekend stations. Echoes Samsara Echoes Podcast: Listen Here. Samsara is the third feature film from director Ron Fricke and producer Mark Magidson. Like their previous movies, it explores grand concepts with grand images and grand music. Samsara is Sanskrit for “continuous flow”, the repeating cycle of birth, life,…
Interview Podcast
Hilary Hahn & Hauschka : Classical & Crazy
We recently had classical violinist Hilary Hahn and German pianist Hauschka on Echoes talking about their collaboration, Silfra. It’s a work of ethereal atmospheres, frozen fragments and deep spaces redolent of the location where they recorded it, Iceland. They played live on the show and this past week we ran an interview with the two…
CD of the Month, Interview Podcast
Dead Can Dance-CD of the Month.
[Hear Dead Can Dance’s Anastasis featured tonight on Echoes.] Anastasis is Greek for “resurrection” and that’s what happens here with Dead Can Dance, the gothic rock band who took deep atmospheres, ritual songs and supralingua dialects to ecstatic, transcendent heights in the 1980s and 90s. There hasn’t been any new music from the band since founders…
Interview Podcast
Alu’s Psychosis Cabaret
The Echoes Podcast with Alu is now up on iTunes. Take a step inside the fascinating world of this gifted singer-songwriter who’s music embodies electronica, cabaret and goth in a joyful music with a chilling undertow. Here she is talking about her song “In the Mausoleum” from her new CD, Madhouse Masquerade. Alu: It’s actually…
Interview Podcast, Living Room Concerts, Reviews & Commentary
A Decade of International Guitar Nights
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-IGN2010.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS10 Years of International Guitar Nights You can hear an audio podcast of this interview with music There are a few all acoustic guitar ensembles out there, but the revolving members of International Guitar Night lives up to it’s name with a global cast of players. Celebrating its…