If it wasn’t for Martin Mull’s 1970s TV series, Fernwood T2 Night, the name Fernwood would more instantly conjure up pastoral images of a backwoods town from a time gone by. The band called Fernwood does that, only their backwoods could be in Bangalore, Senegal or in the Appalachian hills. It’s not that the music…
Sherry Finzer creates an ambient chamber music landscape for flutes.
For most people, the lineage of DJ scratching begins about 1982 with artists like hip-hop DJ’s Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa. Those are the roots of French DJ/Producer Wax Tailor. But he’s also part of a much longer DJ tradition that goes back to fellow Frenchmen, Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer. In the 1940s they…
Philip Selway is the drummer from Radiohead, but that information does little to prepare you for the sensitive, gentle songs of broken love and redemption that populate his second solo album, Weatherhouse. Even his first album, the more folk inclined Familial, won’t set you up for the lush textures and seductive melodies he conjures. Weatherhouse…
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Thierry David’s Electronic Hypnosishttps://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/audio/MesmerizingSpirals.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHear Thierry David’s Hypnosis Tonight on Echoes. I first heard about French synthesist Thierry David around 1993 when another electronic musician, Robert Rich, played some of David’s music for me. It turned out, David had been recording electronic music for several years already, but he…
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Tigerforest avoids lapsing into bombast and saccharine sentimentality. Instead, on The Tides of Day and Night he creates an expansive and immersive journey.
Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence is not your usual Echoes CD of the Month. It’s not ethereal and dreamy. It won’t soothe you. But along with Beck’s transcendent (and soothing) Morning Phase, it’s one of the most important albums of the year.
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/audio/TimeIsUp.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSYoed Nir creates Ambient Cello Orchestras: The Next Dream Hear it featured tonight on Echoes It’s a good time to be a cellist. Rock artists from Arcade Fire to Shawn Colvin are using them to provide just that right amount of elegant soul to their work. And the…
Record review: Carl Weingarten’s Life Under Stars. An Echoes Favorite Evokes Windham Hill, Miles Davis and Ry Cooder in a Pastoral Americana Journey Hear it tonight on Echoes I don’t know why I’m surprised that Carl Weingarten has made an album of such sweet simplicity and pastoral bliss. I shouldn’t be. Over the course of more than three…
Cellist Hans Christian creates Global Serenity with Hidden Treasures The Echoes May CD of the Month Hans Christian launches his new CD playing cello. It’s the instrument he began with studying classical repertoire and he’s done recordings with it from the purely Renaissance album, Light and Spirit, to pure solo improvisations on Sancta Camisia, and…