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.
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Echoes July 2016 CD of the Month-OnDeadWaves
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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.
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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.
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Moby in the Echoes Podcast
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Echoes sits down with iconic electronic musician Moby to discuss his latest album and accompanying memoir.
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Haroula Rose in the Echoes Podcast
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Greek music, and iZombie are all part of the haunting, introspective songs sung by Haroula Rose on her latest album, “Here the Blue River.” The former Fulbright Scholar comes in to talk about her music on the Echoes Podcast.
Program Highlights
OnDeadWaves “Blue Inside” Video
OnDeadWaves gives us an eerie and somber look into the concepts of loss and grief.
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Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble in the Echoes Podcast
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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.
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The Gloaming in the Echoes Podcast
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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…
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Echoes Top 25 for May 2016
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
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.