Christmas begins today with An Echoes Celtic Sonic Seasonings with Moya Brennan and Jeff Johnson, Brian Dunning and Wendy Goodwin I don’t know how Celtic music came to signify winter, but slow aires and Celtic harps seem to exemplify a quieter and more atmospheric side of the Winter season. We’ve dipped into that sound on…
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Best Of
25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2013
Some years are better than others and 2013 was much better than most. Right now, you can Vote in the Best of Echoes 2013 Listener Poll. But, this list is different. This is compiled by the brain trust of Echoes. These are the CDs we played on the show in 2013 that we thought represented…
Living Room Concerts
Heavy Metal Strings-Eklipse Live on Echoes
Eklipse, A Non-Classical String Quartet Plays Live on Echoes Tonight. Eklipse’s live performance on Echoes has been one of our most popular shows of 2013. If you like your string quartets wearing dominatrix attire, glam make-up and playing songs from pop and alt-rock bands, then I’ve got one for you. Their name is Eklipse, and…
Program Highlights
Azam Ali & Loga R. Torkian Talk About a Signature CD on Echoes
Hear Azam Ali & Loga R. Torkian interviewed tonight on Echoes. An album that is sure to be in the Echoes Top 25 for 2013 is Azam Ali and Loga R. Torkian ‘s Lamentation of Swans, a Journey into Silence. They used to be in two different bands. Torkian played guitar in the Persian fusion…
Living Room Concerts
Olivier Libaux’s Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age Live on Echoes
Hear Olivier Libaux Bring his Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age to Echoes live tonight Olivier Libaux is a co-founder of Nouvelle Vague, a French project that records lounge versions of Punk and New Wave songs. Libaux steps out on his own with the CD titled Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age, reinventing songs by…
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Moby Talks About Innocents Tonight on Echoes
Hear Moby Interviewed Tonight on Echoes. I don’t know if Moby intended it this way, but Innocents sounds like the conclusion of a trilogy, joining Wait for Me and Destroyed, his two previous albums. As on those recordings, Moby plays the ambient song-smith, crafting odes of haunting and poignant beauty, making a music that sounds…
Interview Podcast
Euphoria in Echoes Podcast.
Hear Euphoria Interviewed on Echoes Podcast Ken Ramm played in rock bands as a kid and spent a lot of time composing the soundtrack for the soap opera, “As The World Turns.” But in the mid-1990s he had the idea of putting his guitar in a different musical environment. He took country-blues slide guitar, and…
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Darkside of the Beach Boys on Echoes Tonight
From Tonight Sky to Darkside on Echoes T0night Darkside is a duo from where else? Brooklyn. Electronic musician Nicolas Jaar and guitarist Dave Harrington spin out psychedelic electronica landscapes with moods that reference German avant-rockers, Can. Catch them live if you can. They did an amazing set at this year’s Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit.…
CD of the Month
12 Echoes CDs of the Month Tonight
WE LOOK BACK AT ECHOES CD OF THE MONTH PICKS FROM 2013 Every month on Echoes we pick out the CD of the Month. It’s the album we think best represents the sound of Echoes and simply, the best album in that sound. This year has been a great one for CD of the Month …
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Euphoria, the Band, on Echoes
Hear Euphoria Interviewed Tonight on Echoes. Ken Ramm played in rock bands as a kid and spent a lot of time composing the soundtrack for the soap opera, “As The World Turns.” But in the mid-1990s he had the idea of putting his guitar in a different musical environment. He took country-blues slide guitar, and…