The Avant-garde is Made Beautiful by This Washington D.C. Ambient Chamber Music Duo Hear their Echoes Interview Podcast on iTunes. Janel Leppin and Anthony Pirog are two musicians living between worlds and sometimes states. The couple are associated with the avant-garde music scene in Washington D.C. The only thing is, their music tends to be…
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Interview Podcast
The Reinvention of Kaki King – Echoes Podcast
Hear the Podcast of Kaki King’s Echoes Interview There’s little doubt that Kaki King has been the most high profile acoustic guitar player of the last decade. Since her 2003 debut she’s recorded several albums, collaborated with musicians like The Goo Goo Dolls, scored films like Into the Wild with Eddie Vedder and Michael Brook…
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Shoegaze Ambience with Manual – Echoes Podcast
Interview with Jonas Munk a.k.a Manual in Echoes Podcast In the early 2000’s a new sound in electronic music emerged. It mixed German Space and Progressive Rock, with Shoegaze guitar and contemporary Electronica. Two of the leading lights in this sound were Manual and Ulrich Schnauss. Manual is Danish musician Jonas Munk and he’s carved…
Interview Podcast
Bryan Carrigan Washes Electronic Windows.
Bryan Carrigan Completes a Trilogy of Electronic CDs with Windows. Bryan Carrigan has been a journeyman musician, working behind the scenes on Hollywood films. but in 2011, he began releasing his own music and he’s put out three CDs in the last year of his inventive and often ebullient compositions. But towards the end of…
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Top Ten Songs for 2012.
John Diliberto’s Top Ten Songs for 2012 TOP TEN SONGS 1 Geigertek “Underpass” 2 The Raveonettes – “Till the End” 3 Sharon Van Etten – “Serpents” 4 Liftoff – “Summer Shone” 5 Frankie Rose “Moon In My Mind” 6 Shel – “Paint My Life” 7 Blue Foundation – “Lost” 8 Norah Jones – “4 Broken…
Interview Podcast, Reviews & Commentary
Cage: Beyond Silence
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…
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…