Category: Program Highlights

Akara Enters the World of Echoes Top 25 for October

The band who creates music from The World Beyond, tops the world of the Echoes Top 25 for October.  Akara’s The World Beyond was the Echoes CD of the Month and I’m increasingly impressed by the sophistication and meticulous detail of this CD, all the while edited to some throbbing grooves. I would love to…

Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Meditations

LOU REED: METAL MACHINE MEDITATIONS Hear an interview with Lou Reed talking about his final album. You may not think of Lou Reed, who passed away on October 27, as a meditative kind of guy, but the founding member of The Velvet Underground and purveyor of proto-punk songs created an electronic CD designed for meditation…

Echoes Interview: Quiet on Still Corners

It’s a dream pop world out there lately and we just float thru it.  Tonight on Echoes I’ve got a band called Still Corners.  Their first album was a stripped down, 60’s psych-pop style release redolent of “96 Tears” but on their 2013 release, Strange Pleasures,  they expand their instrumental sonics and lyric concerns. Still…

Interview: Rachel Zeffira

Hear an interview with Rachel Zeffira tonight on Echoes 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 songs…

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”…

Living Room Concert: Una

Hear Una in a Living room Concert on Echoes tonight. We loved this Una performance so much that a track from it is on our new Living Room Concerts collection, Transmissions.  Hear the whole wonderful performance again tonight on Echoes. Una is a band form LA mixing trip-hop, jazz, electronic and DJ strategies, all centered…

It’s a Total Eklipse Tonight on Echoes.

The String Quartet Eklipse Talk About Their Rockin’ Strings Tonight on Echoes. We got to know that we all have the same problem, that we all want to do something else than just playing Bach, or Beethoven or something else.  And so we started this project and that was an amazing coincidence. -Helena, cellist of…

Shambhu Brings Windham Hill Sound to Echoes Tonight

Guitarist Shambhu Plays Live on Echoes Tonight. Windham Hill Records hasn’t been around for many years, but their influence remains strong.  Today, we’ll hear from another guitar player whose music was shaped by the recordings of Will Ackerman and Alex De Grassi.  Shambhu is one of those musicians. In fact, Windham Hill founder Will Ackerman…

Hear About Mountain Oasis EM Summit in Echoes Podcast

Hear about the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit in the Echoes Podcast There are many electronic music festivals out there from the Detroit Music Festival to the Ultra Music Festival.  But none have the breadth of acts you’ll find at the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit, the successor to Moogfest in Asheville, North Carolina.  (Moogfest…

Ascend the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit on Echoes.

Tonight on Echoes we talk to Ashley Capps, Producer of the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit There are many electronic music festivals out there from the Detroit Music Festival to the Ultra Music Festival.  But none have the breadth of acts you’ll find at the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit, the successor to Moogfest in…