Moodswings Maven Trades Synthesizers for the Hang One of my favorite albums of the 21st century remains the CD Horizontal by Moodswings. It was a perfect CD of ambient expanses, melodically tuned and atmospherically vast. The man behind that album was James Hood. After a lifetime in music, including playing drums with The Pretenders, he…
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Living Room Concerts
Priscilla Ahn Live on Echoes.
Singer-songwriter Priscilla Ahn Plays Live on Echoes Tonight. Hear another child of Echoes tonight when Priscilla Ahn plays live. The singer-songwriter grew up in Central Pennsylvania where she listened to Echoes on WITF in Harrisburg and WXPN in Philadelphia. She’s in LA now where she has been crafting introspective personal songs like “Dream” from her…
Living Room Concerts
Journey to Sirius with Vic Hennegan Live on Echoes
Acclaimed Space Musician Vic Hennegan Play Live on Echoes You can sort of blame me for Vic Hennegan. He grew up in Philadephia in the 1970s listening to me spinning space music albums by Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and Jean Michel Jarre on WXPN back then. That, and the fact that his mother took him…
Living Room Concerts
Just say AH! with Linnea Olsson Live on Echoes
Swedish Cellist and Singer-Songwriter Linnea Olsson plays live on Echoes Tonight A couple of weeks ago I recorded a double set of living room concerts in New York. One was with singer-songwriter Ane Brun. Look for that in forthcoming weeks. She was accompanied by fellow Swede, cellist Linnea Olsson. When Brun’s set ended, she left,…
Program Highlights
Alan Howarth In Echoes Podcast
Hear the Maestro of Horror Soundtracks, Alan Howarth, in Echoes Podcast The music of horror in movies has been defined by a few composers. One of them is Alan Howarth. He’s from The Beatles generation and came up in the psychedelic era and the birth of modern electronic music. He’s best known for working with…
Program Highlights
Alan Howarth-Composer of Horror on Echoes
The music of horror in movies has been defined by a few composers. One of them is Alan Howarth. He’s from The Beatles generation and came up in the psychedelic era and the birth of electronic music. He’s best known for working with director John Carpenter in the 1970s on films like the Halloween sequels,…
Living Room Concerts
Afro Celt Founder Takes Beatles Global
Hear the Fresh Handmade Sound Collective live tonight on Echoes The name Fresh Handmade Sound Collective probably means nothing to you unless you’ve been to one of the Lush Cosmetic stores or Spas, but you should know the name of Simon Emmerson, a founding member of Afro Celt Sound System, still the defining exponents of…
Interview Podcast
Oscillate with Silver Apples in Echoes Podcast
Hear the story of the first Electro-pop group, Silver Apples in Echoes Podcast Often when we produce interview features on Echoes, a lot of great material gets left on the floor due time constraints or because they are extraneous to the central story. That’s the case with our interview with Simeon Coxe of Silver Apples. …
Interview Podcast
Silver Apples Plucked Tonight on Echoes
Hear the story of Silver Apples tonight on Echoes Often when we produce interview features on Echoes, a lot of great material gets left on the floor due time constraints or because they are extraneous to the central story. That’s the case with our interview with Simeon Coxe of Silver Apples. You can hear all…
CD of the Month
Erik Wøllo’s Timelines
It’s a cliché, I know, but as soon as an Erik Wøllo album starts, you know you are on a journey. It’s like the moments before take-off, only Wøllo’s ascent doesn’t throw you back in your seat with G-Force thrust. It’s a gentle rise into euphoric space. Timelines is a beautifully sculpted example of…