Hear Rachel Zeffira play live tonight on Echoes. She turns her opera-trained soprano into a caressing hush; mixes circus organ with a song about suicide; and uses oboe arrangements that sound like the The Left Banke’s “Pretty Ballerina.” That’s only part of the allure in Rachel Zeffira’s debut album, The Deserters. Tonight you can hear…
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Lo-Fi Dreampop from Wall
Hear the Echoes interview with Lyla Foy of Wall I don’t think we’ve ever had an artist interviewed on the show with as little materiel as Wall. That’s the recording persona of English singer-songwriter Lyla Foy who has managed to build up a lot of buzz with a sparse amount of materiel equaled only by…
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Hooverphonic on Echoes Podcast
Hear Hooverphonic Interviewed in the Echoes Podcast. Hooverphonic is a band that’s been at the borders of popularity for the last 15 years or so. They’ve actually had several hits in Europe and you might’ve heard their music in movies like Stealing Beauty and on TV ads for Volkswagen and Motorola. This Belgian group started…
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An Echoes Summer Solstice
It’s the longest day of the year and Echoes has the music to welcome in summer. We trip the sunlight fantastic on an Echoes Summer Solstice Soundscape. We’ll hear music with the sun in it’s eyes and flowers in it’s hair. It’s not the summer of love, but you might think so with an Echoes…
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New Music: The Boards of Canada & Sigur Rós
New music by downtempo electronic denizens, The Boards of Canada, from their highly anticipated and hyped Tomorrow’s Harvest, and the latest by Sigur Rós off their new album Kveikur (Candlewick). Below, watch Sigur Rós’ “Hoppipolla” from their 2005 album, Takk. John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign up for Echoes CD of the Month Club. With the Echoes…
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Sigur Ros Live From Dresden.
Sigur Rós will be playing a live performance of their new CD Kveikur on-line today from Dresden. It will take place at 2:50 PM ET. Judging from reports of their recent tour and their intense performance on Jay Leno a few weeks ago, it should be wild. It’s also supposed to have a surround camera…
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Hooverphonic on Echoes
Tonight on Echoes we talk to Hooverphonic, the Belgian band that traffics in haunting dream-pop, grooving trip-hop and John Barry-inspired songs that sound like they stepped right out of a James Bond film circa 1965. They have a new CD out called The Night Before. It’s been out in Europe for two years but is…
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Ludovico Einaudi Live on Echoes
Acclaimed Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi comes to Echoes with his electro-acoustic ensemble and plays the sometimes haunting, sometimes exuberant themes of his latest album, In A Time Lapse. Below, watch Ludovico Einaudi’s live performance of “Divenire” from his 2008 CD, Divenire. Read a review of Ludovico Einaudi’s In A Time Lapse, Echoes March CD of…
Interview Podcast
Underworld’s Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams in Echoes Podcast.
Hear Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams talk about Edgeland in Echoes Podcast. In the 1980s, Rick Smith and Karl Hyde got together in a band called Freur and then formed the influential electronic dance group Underworld. They’ve been musically inseparable until recently. Rick Smith scored the soundtrack for Trance and Karl Hyde released his solo…
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New Music: Stephen DeRuby and Daft Punk
Tonight on Echoes, new music from world flute player Stephen DeRuby, whose new album is called Awakening. DeRuby plays all kinds of world flutes and sets them in dreamy landscapes. We’ll also hear from Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories. It’s a dance album but even dancers have to chill and we’ll hear one of the…