A Non-Classical String Quartet Eklipse Plays Live on Echoes Tonight. 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 they are a quartet of young German women flaunting their sexuality and their love of…
Category: Program Highlights
Program Highlights
Persian Fusion Dervishes-Azam Ali & Loga R. Torkian on Echoes
Hear Azam Ali & Loga R. Torkian interviewed tonight on Echoes. Azam Ali and Loga R. Torkian used to be in two different bands. Torkian played guitar in the Persian fusion band, Axiom of Choice and Ali was half of the world fusion duo, Vas. They got together romantically and musically and formed the Persian…
Program Highlights
New Music from Austra & Dead Beat Project
Tonight on Echoes, Austra & Dead Beat Project. New music from Austra, the Canadian band fronted by the powerful voice of Katie Stelmanis, from their new album Olympia, I love her voice. So many singers we love on Echoes barely project beyond the microphone, but I always feel like you could hear Katie Stelmanis shouting…
Living Room Concerts
Ulrich Schnauss Non-Stop Live on Echoes
Ulrich Schnauss comes to Echoes and plays completely altered versions of his music. Usually in an Echoes Living Room Concert, I talk to the musicians between songs. I even ask musicians who usually play non-stop uninterrupted sets or musicians whose songs are super long, too break it up into shorter, separate units so we can…
Interview Podcast
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…
Program Highlights
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…
Program Highlights
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…
Best Of
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…
Program Highlights
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…
Program Highlights
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…