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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-LylaFoy.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSLyla Foy Talks About Mirrors the Sky in Echoes Podcast We first met Lyla Foy in 2013 when she was recording under the guise of Wall. I was seduced by the austere, yet atmospheric songs of her EP Shoestrings, which touched a deep and resonant chord of…
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Progressive Pop Diva Tori Amos On Echoes Podcast. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-ToriAmos.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS Since we had Tori Amos on the air live two weeks ago, she’s enjoyed some of the greatest acclaim of her career. Her new CD, Unrepentant Geraldines went into Billboard’s Top 200 and the singer has garnered some of…
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-SCarey.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSean Carey has created an album of transcendent repose called Range of Light that uses naturalistic metaphor inspired by John Muir to talk about themes of love and family. He talks about it in the Echoes Podcast. Hear it below. https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-SCarey.mp3
The Echoes Top 25 for May continues a trend towards chilled out vocal music but the top three slots are held by three CD of the Month picks, one vocal, two instrumental. Lyla Foy is a relatively new artist who used to record as Wall. Her Mirrors the Sky album, the first under her own…
Record review: Carl Weingarten’s Life Under Stars. An Echoes Favorite Evokes Windham Hill, Miles Davis and Ry Cooder in a Pastoral Americana Journey Hear it tonight on Echoes I don’t know why I’m surprised that Carl Weingarten has made an album of such sweet simplicity and pastoral bliss. I shouldn’t be. Over the course of more than three…
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-ThusOwls.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe Canadian-Swedish Band Thus Owls Talk about Turning Rocks tonight on Echoes. Thus Owls’ Erika Angell is a singer who isn’t afraid to cut loose. Like Kate Bush and Tori Amos, she takes unexpected vocal flights, but unlike them, her voice is throatier, earthier giving her vocal turns…
Lyla Foy Brings her Haunting Songs to Echoes Live. A lot of modern singers can’t bring it live. They need backing tapes, ghost vocals, and rhythm tracks, if not more. I remember one live Echoes session where the only sound in the studio was a lone voice, barely. Everything else, vocal harmonies, bass, guitar, drums and…
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Mark McGuire’s Prog-Rock Roots and Metaphysical Designs. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-MarkMcGuire.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIf you thought Toto had taken over Mike Oldfield’s body on his recent album, Man on the Rocks, then you should hear Mark McGuire’s Along the Way. Every time I put it on I feel like I’m taking a trip into…
The Welsh Band 9Bach has a new CD on Realworld Records. It’s been a while since we’ve featured a Welsh band on Echoes. The last one I recall was Ceredwen, a beautifully produced project that released two albums in the late 1990s on the Real Music label. Ceredwen featured the compositions of Andrew Fryer with…
Hear an Interview with Darkside Tonight on Echoes. This past October I got to see the band Darkside at the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit. They played before an impressively large audience in the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, considering they only had one album out, Psychic. They’re a band that favors shadows, standing in twin cones…