Hear Pat Metheny talk about Tap: John Zorn’s Book of Angels Tonight on Echoes You never know quite where guitarist Pat Metheny is going to land. In just the last three years he’s recorded a album with his mechanical orchestra called The Orchestrion, released a solo guitar album of 60 pop cover tunes and now,…
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Darshan Ambient on Echoes.
Darshan Ambient Talks about Little Things Tonight on Echoes. In the days before YouTube, iTunes and most other on-line music sources, Darshan Ambient was a minor star at mp3.com, the renowned legal music download site. He released his music there and garnered nearly 100,000 listens. That’s not much in terms of YouTube‘s multi-million-viewer hypes, but…
Living Room Concerts
Sticks & Strings-Greisgraber & Lams Live on Echoes
Hear Chapman Stick Player Tom Greisgraber & Guitarist Bert Lams Live on Echoes Tonight We know Bert Lams as one head in the three-headed, six-armed monster of the California Guitar Trio. Tom Griesgraber plays the Chapman Stick, enhancing his two-handed tapping with atmospheric effects. They come in to the Echoes Living Room to play music…
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Re-Genesis – Steve Hackett Live.
Steve Hackett Goes Back to Beginning at Keswick Theatre With Yestival this past summer, gearing up for Hawkwind’s sadly postponed tour, and now Steve Hackett revisiting his work with Genesis, it’s been a year for Progressive Rock nostalgia. Guitarist Steve Hackett was with Genesis for their glory years and then stuck around for two post-Peter…
Interview Podcast
From Beach Boys to Tangerine Dream: Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters in Echoes Podcast
Hear Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters Interview in the Echoes Podcast. It’s been an Ulrich Schnauss year here at Echoes. He had a CD of the Month in February this year with A Long Way to Fall and we interviewed him as well. Then he played live for us in early September and now he’s…
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Dreams and Machines, Autoharps and Sequencers tonight on Echoes.
Tonight on Echoes you can hear a singer-songwriter who could’ve been recording 50 years ago and another who is strickly 21st century. And I have electronic music that could’ve been made forty years ago and another born from contemporary aesthetics. Basia Bulat is a singer who has just released her third album, Tall Tall Shadow. …
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Tonight on Echoes, Connections from 1967 to 2013.
60’s Psych-Progressions, 70’s Krautrock, New World Fusion and Ambient Chamber music Tonight on Echoes. I must be feeling a bit nostalgic today. I find myself going back to some of my earliest musical influences and to the early days of Echoes. From the 1960s, I’ve got a song by Donovan, an artist who I think…
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Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters on Echoes
Hear Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters Interview Tonight on Echoes. It’s been an Ulrich Schnauss year here at Echoes. He had a CD of the Month in February this year with A Long Way to Fall and we interviewed him as well. Then he played live for us in early September and now he’s back…
Interview Podcast
Ethereal Girl: Mree in Echoes Podcast.
Hear Mree interviewed in the Echoes Podcast. Mree isn’t your typical singer song-writer. Even though she started out playing acoustic guitar in her bedroom and recording alt-rock songs on YouTube, she’s evolved her sound into something closer to dream pop than folk, embracing sounds from the New Age, Alt-Rock and ambient into a music that…
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Julia Holter Makes Hello Stranger Strange on Echoes
After yesterday’s blast from the past for our 24th anniversary we fast forward into the Echoes of 2013 even if some of it includes a song from 50 years ago. Back in 1963 Barbara Lewis had a hit with the song “Hello Stranger” with backing from The Dells. That title may not ring a bell…