Category: Program Highlights

Ane Brun Interviewed on Echoes Podcast.

Hear Ane Brun interviewed in the Echoes Podcast. Norwegian-born, Sweden-based  singer-songwriter Ane Brun creates a dreamy, folk-based music. She looks back on her 10 year career and new double CD retrospective Songs 2003-2013.  But she started out as a busker.  There are thousands of them around the world:  Musicians playing on street corners, in cafes…

Retro-California, Future Space & Joy Formidable On Echoes

Today on Echoes it’s new music by Raygun Ballet.  This is the recording persona of John-Mark Austin.  He’s best known as an Academy Award winning CGI artist whose work includes Avatar among many others.  When he makes music, Austin explores a retro-futurism, pulling soundclips from the 50s that are usually looking forward to an age…

Psychedelic to Serenity: Mike Wall Echoes Interview

We get a lot of music in here with titles like “Music for Massage,” “Music for Yoga,” “Music for Meditation.”  They almost never make it onto the show, but every now and then we get one that has a little bit more going for it, than pretty sounds and contemplative moods.  That’s the case with…

Greatest Songs of the 21st Century… So Far: An Idiosyncratic List.

The thirteenth year of the 21st century doesn’t seem to be the right time to look back on the best of the millennium.  Those lists usually come on the decade and quarter century marks.  But I was asked to compile another Top Ten list for Echoes affiliate, WXPN in Philadelphia.  This time, the impossible assignment…

The Cabaret of Una on Echoes.

Una is interviewed tonight on Echoes. Trip-Hop music of the 1990s brought several worlds together.  In groups like Portishead, Massive Attack and Morcheeba, you  could hear elements of hip-hop, electronic music, lounge moods and torch song singing.  Una has taken those sounds in a different direction over the last six years, adding jazz, film scores…

Busking to Beauty: Ane Brun Interviewed on Echoes

Norwegian-born, Sweden-based  singer-songwriter Ane Brun creates a dreamy, folk-based music. She looks back on her 10 year career and new double CD retrospective Songs 2003-2013.  But she started out as a busker.  There are thousands of them around the world:  Musicians playing on street corners, in cafes and any other place an audience might stroll…

Arborea in Echoes Podcast

Hear Arborea Interviewed on the Echoes Podcast Arborea is Buck & Shanti Curran, a husband and wife duo from Maine who have been making a dreamy psychedelic folk music for several years. They recently released the album, Fortress of the Sun. During a recent live performance in the Echoes Living Room they talked about their…

Celtic Returns, Prog on the Side, Experiment into Ambient

We’ve got a lot of new music from old friends today on Echoes.  Clannad, the legendary Irish band and one of the groups that launched the Celtic renaissance in the 1980s, returns with their first album in 15 years.  It’s called Nádúr,  Gaelic for nature, and it brings the core members of Clannad back together,…

Akara – Music from Other Worlds.

“There are other worlds they have not told you about.  They wish to speak to you.” -Sun Ra Hear Akara Interviewed On Echoes Tonight The band called Akara has returned from another trip to other dimensions with a new CD The World Beyond.  Their previous CD, Extradimensional Ethnography, was an Echoes CD of the Month…

Mystic Music from Maine with Arborea

Hear Arborea Interviewed Live Tonight on Echoes Arborea is Buck & Shanti Curran, a husband and wife duo from Maine who have been making a dreamy psychedelic folk music for several years. They recently released the album, Fortress of the Sun. During a recent live performance in the Echoes Living Room they talked about their…