Category: Program Highlights

New Music: Mike Oldfield and Daft Punk on Echoes

Hear New Music From Mike Oldfield and DaftPunk on Echoes tonight. Daft Punk didn’t play Colbert the other night, but we have them on Echoes, at least their music andit won’t be that over-exposed “Get Lucky” but another track off of  Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories. And speaking of electronic music we’ll hear Mike Oldfield…

Living Room Concert: Radio Massacre International

Hear Radio Massacre International in a Living Room Concert on Echoes tonight. It’s a trip into deep space when the English electronic trio Radio Massacre International comes into the Echoes living room and elevates us into the cosmos with a live performance. Below, watch the electronic music video of Radio Massacre International’s “Small Frozen North”…

Go to Edgeland with Underworld’s Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams.

Hear Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams talk about Edgeland in Echoes Tonight. In the 1980s, Rick Smith and Karl Hyde got together in a band called Freur and then formed the influential electronic dance group Underworld.  They’ve been musically inseparable until recently.  Rick Smith scored the soundtrack for Trance and Karl Hyde released his solo…

Just Say YESTIVAL to Another Excess.

A Rousing Yes to Yestival with Yes, Renaissance, Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy, Volto! and The Musical Box In 1971 I went to the Orpheum Theater in Boston for a double bill of Yes and King Crimson.  Being too hip for the room, I was there to see the Islands edition of Crimson. Yes of course,…

Surf The Wave’s of Melorman’s CD of the Month

Hear A Podcast Review of Melorman’s Waves The Echoes CD of the Month for August If you thought the only electronic-based music coming out of Greece was from Yanni and Vangelis, then you haven’t been keeping up on a wave of electronic artists who are more plugged in to Boards of Canada’s textural melancholy than…

Echoes Podcast: Rachel Zeffira’s Dissembling & Suicides

Hear the Echoes Podcast of our interview with Rachel Zeffira. Rachel Zeffira is a former operatic soprano who now vocalizes in caressing whispers. She makes an enchanting and haunting dream pop, telling tales of suicide and lost love, placing it all in a chamber music setting. She doesn’t like to reveal the meanings of the…

New Music from Jeff Greinke & Chad Lawson on Echoes

Listen to New Music from Jeff Greinke & Chad Lawson on Echoes tonight We’ll hear the latest by Jeff Greinke who has crafted a gorgeous chamber music album called Scenes From a Train. Then it’s pianist Chad Lawson who resides in that zone of ambient piano pioneered by Harold Budd. Watch Chad Lawson’s live performance…

Melorman CD of the Month

If you thought the only electronic-based music coming out of Greece was from Yanni and Vangelis, then you haven’t been keeping up on a wave of electronic artists who are more plugged in to Boards of Canada’s textural melancholy than Yanni’s grandiose orchestrations. Melorman is one of those artists. That’s the parody-ready moniker of Antonis…

Echoes Top 25 for July 2013.

Queens of the Stone Age, reinvented, Leads Echoes Top 25 … Like Clockwork by Queens of the Stone Age made Number One on the Billboard Top 200, but Olivier Libaux‘s Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age was Number One on Echoes.  Libaux’s UNQOTSA ,  in which he creates intimate, melancholic versions of tunes from this…

New Music From Chinmaya Dunster and Der Waldläufer

Hear New Music From Chinmaya Dunster and Der Waldläufer on Echoes tonight. New music by Chinmaya Dunster, the English-born guitarist headed who east and studied with Indian sarod masters, from his new album, Meditation Ragas. We’ll also hear new space music Der Waldläufer, which means The Ranger. Below, watch Chinmaya Dunster’s live performance of “Bhattiyali”…