Jazz goes Ambient with Matt Borghi & Michael Teager on Echoes Tonight. These days in contemporary music, most musicians don’t leave much to chance when they play live. They either adhere to note-for-note recreations of their recorded work or they just have it all in a computer, hit play and have a perfect, if frozen…
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Program Highlights
Heavenly Choirs from Julianna Barwick on Echoes
Enya may not be putting out any new music but there are many artists who are taking that layered vocal sound in different directions. One of them is Julianna Barwick. The Louisiana born, Missouri raised and of course, Brooklyn based artist does something Enya doesn’t dare do, perform live, layering her voice in real time…
CD of the Month
Moby’s Innocents Echoes CD of the Month.
Moby Scores Echoes CD of the Month Hat Trick with Innocents. Hear Moby’s Innocents Featured Tonight on Echoes. I don’t know if Moby intended it this way, but Innocents sounds like the conclusion of a trilogy, joining Wait for Me and Destroyed, his two previous albums. As on those recordings, Moby plays the ambient song-smith,…
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Shhhh! BOOO! An Echoes Halloween
Tonight on Echoes, it’s music for things that go bump in the night. No, not those things. Scary things. It’s a time for spirits and spooks, vampires and zombies, witches and whispers. We’ll hear them all as we go to the darkside of Echoes. I’ll be your sonic crypt-keeper as we explore a sound between…
Best Of
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 Concerts
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…