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John Luttrell’s Progressive Rock Dream https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-JohnLuttrell.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSJohn Luttrell is a journeyman musician who has released several new agey albums over the last decade or so. But this year he released an ambitious Progressive Rock influenced album called The Dream Exchange. It has echoes of many of his influences like…
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Amatorski is a Belgian band that creates an atmospheric, dusky brand of dream pop.
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We revisit an interview from 25 years ago with Jon Hassell. The legendary creator of Fourth World Music, collaborator with Brian Eno and Talking Heads talks about his 1989 album, City: Works of Fiction, recently reissued in a deluxe box set.
There’s some great CDs in the Echoes Top 25 for July. Leading the way is Yoed Nir’s CD of the Month, The Next Dream. He’s one of two cello albums to make the list. The other is first timer Maya Beiser with her album of cello covers, Uncovered.
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Interview: Kaya Project. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-KayaProject2014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSKaya Project is the Ethno-Techo outlet for Seb Taylor who also records as Hibernation, Shakta and Angel Tears. He’s just released a new album called Firedance that ups the rhythmic ante in a frenzy of darbuka grooves and seductive melodies. Seb Taylor and singer Irina…
Hear it featured Sunday, 8/10 tonight on Echoes. Have we ever had a CD of the Month that was number one on the Billboard charts, and the artist was on the cover of Rolling Stone? The answer is an easy no. So the question is, why this album, and why now? That answer is more…
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Interview: Ceiri Torjussen. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-CeiriTorjussen.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSCeiri Torjussen is a Welsh-born classically trained composer with jazz inclinations who has recorded an electronic ambient score for the movie Test, a story about professional dancers coping with the outbreak of AIDS in 1985 San Francisco. Torjussen’s score uses classic 70s and 80s synthesizer…
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Interview: William Orbit. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-WilliamOrbit2014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS Electronic provocateur William Orbit has crafted electronic hits for Madonna (Ray of Light) and Britney Spears (“Alien“) but on his own he creates sometimes quirky, often profound, electronic songs. He’s just released the fifth volume of his Strange Cargo series and a symphonic work. They’re…
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Ambient Americana and Aliens from Fingerstyle Guitar Masterhttps://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-RichardLeoJohnson2014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSRichard Leo Johnson is an idiosyncratic guitarist who pushed the limits of Michael Hedges-style extended technique before going completely out there with an Americana music of the imagination. His new album, Celeste, posits the idea of an alien abduction as one…
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Interview: Carl Weingarten. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-CarlWeingarten.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAn Americana Journey from Carl Weingarten on July 4 Weekend. From ambient guitar to dobro, Carl Weingarten has fused his own musical path over the last 30 years. He talks about his travelogue of Americana, ambient and electric jazz on Life Under Stars, the Echoes…