Videos for the full concerts of AMBIcon 2013 are currently up on youtube. You”ll find them all on the AMBICON youtube page. Here’s a bunch of them with Stephan Micus, Michael Stearns, Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Jeff Pearce, Tim Story and Hans Christian. A rare confluence of ambient artists. I knew I was missing a…
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Echoes Thursday 5/23, new from Iron Man 3 & North Atlantic Drift
The artist known as Mr. Little Jeans isn’t a mister and it’s not apparent that she wears little jeans. Her real name is Monica Birkenes and this Norwegian singer has a nice song on the new Iron Man soundtrack. We have that and the electronics of North Atlantic Drift. It flows into Echoes. ~John…
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Laki Mera (Weds May 22nd)
Today on Echoes it’s dream pop from England when we hear the band Laki Mera. They have a new album called Turn All Memory to White Noise being released in July this year. John Diliberto also has new music from cellist Rena Jones. It’s called Echoes and you’ll hear it on Echoes. ~John Diliberto (((echoes)))…
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Echoes Tues 5/21: Seven Saturdays Interview
Tuesday May 21st Interview: Seven Saturdays on Echoes Jonathan Haskell is a synthesis of influences. Recording as Seven Saturdays, you can hear elements Zero Seven, BT, MoodSwings, and early Pink Floyd roving through his music. In his new song-cycle, the former instrumental composer brings in guest singers for his expansive songs. Seven Saturdays has released…
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Echoes Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Tubular Bells.
Interview: Mike Oldfield – the 40th Anniversary of Tubular Bells on Echoes Hear it on-air the weekend of May 24-26 Hear the Echoes Podcast of the interview with Mike Oldfield on Tubular Bells It was forty years ago that Mike Oldfield electrified the world with his hit album, Tubular Bells. It had one composition spanning…
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Echoes Ólafur Arnalds Interview Podcast
Hear the Echoes Interview with Ólafur Arnalds in the Echoes Podcast There is an emerging generation of artists who are positing the first new movement in classical music since 1970s minimalism: Ambient Chamber Music. It mixes classical orchestrations with electronic sounds, but couches them all in gorgeous, often heart-rending melodies and an atmosphere that envelopes…
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Two Epic Birthdays: Mike Oldfield & Brian Eno.
Mike Oldfield & Brian Eno both share birthdays today. Oldfield turns 60 and Eno turns 65. Each artist has shaped the music we hear today. Brian Eno has been the more prolific and expansive, working across genres and attaining massive popular success in each of the last 5 decades through his work with other artists…
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An Angel Taps Pat Metheny & John Zorn.
A Review of Pat Metheny’s Tap: John Zorn’s Book of Angels Volume 20 Hear Pat Metheny talk about John Zorn’s Book of Angels Volume 20 on the Echoes Podcast Pat Metheny and John Zorn were born within a year of each other and share many of the same musical influences. But in their professional lives,…
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Climb Over Wall with Lyla Foy
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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Global Electronica and Guitar Icons
Tonight on Echoes (5/9/2013) it’s dream pop from England with Still Corners‘ new album “Strange Pleasure“, global electronica from Gaudi‘s new “In Between Times.” And speaking of global, I’ve got a band called Syriana on Peter Gabriel‘s Real World Label. They have members from Ireland, Algeria and Palestine and they sound like Dick Dale in…