THE ECHOES CD OF THE MONTH FOR JULY Marconi Union’s Different Colours Hear Marconi Union interviewed tonight 8/29/2012 on Echoes. Six years years ago, Marconi Union entranced us with their second album, Distance. It was music that emerged from a smoke shrouded city, both luxurious in its atmospheres and dangerous in its menace. Heroic melodies…
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Program Highlights
UK Kills at NEARfest Apocalypse.
The day started and ended with the two highpoints for NEARfest Apocalypse. Despite a more than 90 minute delay, and about 10 minutes of a dimly lit stage and no music or musicians, UK finally hit the stage a little before 11PM. They lived up to their reputation as the last great band from the…
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Renaissance Rises At NEARfest Apocalypse
On Day Two of NEARfest Apocalypse, Heritage Rules Helmet of Gnats How do you know you’re at a progressive rock concert? An abridged version of a song is ten minutes long. And they leave in the drum solo That was the story with Helmut of Gnats and their epic closing tune, “Chimps in Space,”…
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World Fusion & Chamber Pop in Echoes Top 25
Coyote Jump Leads Echoes Top 25 for May The Echoes Top 25 for May is an interesting mix of old and new. A lot of old favorites like Thomas Newman, Jef Stott, Clara Ponty, David Michael, Niyaz, and Carl Weingarten return. And world fusion seems to have made a return led by Coyote Jump’s CD…
CD of the Month
A Summer Solstice CD of the Month: Todd Boston’s Touched by the Sun.
Todd Boston’s Touched by the Sun is Echoes June CD of the Month Hear an interview with Todd Boston Tuesday, 10/9/2012 on Echoes. In June, the month when the sun has unchallenged dominion, guitarist Todd Boston has released the perfect album for summer days. Touched by the Sun is a thematic suite centered on images…
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Coyote Jump-Global Native Chamber Music.
Hear Coyote Jump interviewed tonight on Echoes (8/9/2012) Coyote Jump’s debut album, Waking from the Roots, is slightly deceiving. The cover, with its neo-primitive rendering of a coyote, looks like a typical Canyon Records sleeve for a Pow-Wow or Peyote song album. However, the first notes of a Middle Eastern frame drum and buzz stick…
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Stellar Space and Western Space in Echoes Top 25.
Thierry David’s Stellar Connection Leads Echoes Top 25 for April. But right behind it is Eric Tingstad’s Badlands, his second foray into ambient Americana. That’s the kind of contrast you’ll find in the Echoes Top 25 for April, which this month includes a collaboration in cathedral reverb between Eraldo Bernocchi, Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd;…
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Ozric Tentacles-Still Psychedelic After All These Years.
While retrofitting an interview with Ozric Tentacles to run on Echoes this Wednesday, April 4, I stumbled across this video interview and live performance from the band. The interview is pretty fluffy, but about half way in they go into their Colorado studio and play live in a great sounds and nicely produced segment. Ozric…
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Thierrry David’s Space Music Opus.
A Veteran French Synthesist Launches the Echoes April CD of the Month Hear an interview with Thierry David tonight July 18, on Echoes. It takes a lot of discipline for a skilled, classically trained keyboardist to put his technique on hold and instead, give in to the mood and atmosphere the music requires. On his…
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Air Rises to Top of Echoes Top 25
Le Voyage Dans La Lune Lands in the Echoes Top 25 It was a trippy month in March in more ways than one, but none more so than Air’s Le Voyage Dans La Lune, their retro-psychedelic electronica soundtrack for the 1902 French silent film that was also the focal point of the movie Hugo. It…