[Hear Dead Can Dance’s Anastasis featured tonight on Echoes.] Anastasis is Greek for “resurrection” and that’s what happens here with Dead Can Dance, the gothic rock band who took deep atmospheres, ritual songs and supralingua dialects to ecstatic, transcendent heights in the 1980s and 90s. There hasn’t been any new music from the band since founders…
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Best Of
Summer Ends on Ambient Note: Echoes Top 25 for August.
Four recent CD of the month selections are in the Top Ten of the Echoes Top 25 for August, including our number one CD, Sebastian Plano’s The Arrhythmical Part of Hearts, an album that is sure to be in our Top 25 year end list. ECHOES TOP 25 FOR AUGUST Sebastian Plano – The Arrhythmical…
Program Highlights
Julia Holter in a Blur
Electro-singer-songwriter Julia Holter has a recent album, Ekstasis and a new video for “Goddes Eyes 1” a haunting track of vocoder vox and “My Sex” beat. Julia is scheduled for a live session on Echoes. ~© 2012 John Diliberto ((( echoes ))) You get great CDs like Sebastian Plano’s The Arrhythmical Part of Hearts by…
Program Highlights
Neil Armstrong, Brian Eno, Icebreaker, Apollo.
Tonight on Echoes we’ll be airing an interview with Icebreaker and BJ Cole talking about their beautiful cover of Brian’s Eno’s 1983 collaboration with Roger Eno and Daniel Lanois, Apollo-Atmospheres and Soundtracks. Our show was recorded last Friday, making it to early too comment on the passing of Neil Armstrong, the first man to set…
Interview Podcast
Alu’s Psychosis Cabaret
The Echoes Podcast with Alu is now up on iTunes. Take a step inside the fascinating world of this gifted singer-songwriter who’s music embodies electronica, cabaret and goth in a joyful music with a chilling undertow. Here she is talking about her song “In the Mausoleum” from her new CD, Madhouse Masquerade. Alu: It’s actually…
CD of the Month
The Heart of Ambient Chamber Music: Sebastian Plano.
Sebastian Plano’s “The Arrhythmical Part of Hearts” Echoes CD of the Month for August Hear Sebastian Plano’s The Arrhythmical Part of Hearts Monday, August 6, on Echoes. There are classical artists who still live in a musical world that existed 80 or 200 hundred years ago. Then there are classical musicians who embrace the modern…
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for July: Marconi Calling.
ECHOES TOP 25 FOR JULY MARCONI UNION TRANSMITS TO THE TOP Marconi Union – Different Colours (Just Music) Icebreaker – Apollo (Cantaloupe) Todd Boston – Touched by the Sun (Gita Records) Abalye Cissoko and Volker Goetze – Amanke Dionti (Motema) Raygun Ballet – World That Wasn’t (Raygun Ballet) Wall Matthews – The Dreaming Light (Wall Matthews)…
Program Highlights
Echoes Goes Mobile!
There are big changes to Echoes On-Line so pay attention. THE GREAT NEWS FIRST: It was a long time coming but its part way here. You can now listen to Echoes On-line with your iPhone, iPad, and Droid. And you can do it the same way you listen to Echoes now, except you don’t need…
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for June
June & July CDs of the Month Top Echoes Top 25 for June It’s a little late, but here’s the Echoes Top 25 for June. These are based on spins and it’s notable that the number one and two selections were our June and July CDs of the Month, Todd Boston’s impressive Touched by the…
Best Of
The Best of Echoes 2012….. So Far.
25 Essential CDs to take into the second half of the year. [Click on the artist link and it will take you to a podcast interview. Click on the album links and you’ll go to either a review with tracks or a link to purchase.] According to some interpretations of the Mayan calendar, the world…