Category: Program Highlights

Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble in the Echoes Podcast

The Silk Road Ensemble )

Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble is among the premiere world music institutions, bringing together artists form traditional and classical worlds into a sometimes joyous, sometimes challenging fusion. Now they have a documentary film, The Music of Strangers.

The Gloaming in the Echoes Podcast

The Gloaming Experiments with Traditional Celtic Music in the Echoes Podcast.https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/EchoesPodcast-TheGloaming.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSListen to the interview with The Gloaming above, or download it from iTunes. The first Irish renaissance happened in the 1970s when Irish bands like Planxty, Dedanan and brought virtuosity and more expansive arrangements to Irish traditional music. Then…

Echoes Top 25 for May 2016

Hammock-Everything And Nothing

Hammock’s Echoes CD of the Month, “Everything and Nothing” leads the Echoes Top 25 for May, followed by Haroula Rose’s “Here the Blue River,” Jean-Michel Jarre’s “Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise” and Radiohead’s “A Moon Shaped Pool.” See the complete list.

CD of the Month June 2016: Aukai

The music of Aukai is like the lost sound of an ancient and refined civilization. It’s both familiar and new, the sound of ancestral spirits touched by a modern hand. It’s a project of Markus Sieber from the duo, Mirabai Ceiba.