Echoes CD of the Month for August, William Tyler’s “Modern Country” elevates country and folk traditions to cosmic, ambient planes
CD of the Month
Echoes August 2016 CD of the Month: William Tyler’s Modern Country
Category: Program Highlights
Interview Podcast, Program Highlights
AeTopus in the Echoes Podcast
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Bryan Tewell Hughes, otherwise known as AeTopus, speaks with Echoes about his influences, process, and Sci-Fi musings. His latest album is entitled When.
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Ron Korb in the Echoes Podcast
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Ron Korb explains how he went from playing the plastic recorder as a child to becoming a grammy nominated world flute master. His latest album is Asia Beauty.
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Aukai in Echoes Podcast
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Markus Sieber is the German musician of Aukai whose debut self-titled album is deeply meditative, spacious and steeped in vaguely surreal, pastoral all-instrumental tones
Program Highlights, Reviews & Commentary
Bonus CD of the Month: iNDEX05
If someone wanted a one-stop example of state-of-the art electronic music, I would give them Index05, the latest compilation from the DiN label. Ian Boddy has created a perfectly sequenced, non-stop electronic journey with tracks from Node, Arc, and Dave Bessell, along with collaborations between Parallel Worlds & Dave Bessell, Ian Boddy & Markus Reuter, Erik Wøllo & Bernhard Wöstheinrich, and Parallel Worlds & Self Oscillate.
Interview Podcast
Forgotten Future in Echoes Podcast.
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Julius Dobos is a Hungarian composer steeped in those sounds and he’s developing a concept called Forgotten Future that’s meant to provide a soundtrack for those ideas
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for June 2016
In Echoes Top 25 for June, Aukai’s debut recording leads the way. It was also the Echoes CD of the Month. He’s followed by SHEL – Just Crazy Enough, Emmy the Great – Second Love, and Haroula Rose’s Here the Blue River. See the complete list.
CD of the Month
Echoes July 2016 CD of the Month-OnDeadWaves
OnDeadWaves take shoegaze west with whiskey-soaked harmonies and reverb-saturated guitar. The project of Polly Scattergood and James Chapman is the Echoes July CD of the Month.
Interview Podcast
Steve Kimock in the Echoes Podcast
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Steve Kimock has played with just about every member of The Grateful Dead. With his own groups, he plays pays extended guitar centric compositions full of improvisation, and he’s often mentioned in the same breadth as bands like Phish and The String Cheese Incident. But don’t dare call his group a jam band.
Best Of
The Best of 2016…So Far
At the half-way point of the year, we pick the albums that excited us the most thus far in 2016. Miranda Lee Richard’s “Echoes of the Dreamtime” tops the list of 25, followed by All India Radio, Hammock, Radiohead and more.