Una is interviewed tonight on Echoes. Trip-Hop music of the 1990s brought several worlds together. In groups like Portishead, Massive Attack and Morcheeba, you could hear elements of hip-hop, electronic music, lounge moods and torch song singing. Una has taken those sounds in a different direction over the last six years, adding jazz, film scores…
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Busking to Beauty: Ane Brun Interviewed on Echoes
Norwegian-born, Sweden-based singer-songwriter Ane Brun creates a dreamy, folk-based music. She looks back on her 10 year career and new double CD retrospective Songs 2003-2013. But she started out as a busker. There are thousands of them around the world: Musicians playing on street corners, in cafes and any other place an audience might stroll…
Interview Podcast
Arborea in Echoes Podcast
Hear Arborea Interviewed on the Echoes Podcast Arborea is Buck & Shanti Curran, a husband and wife duo from Maine who have been making a dreamy psychedelic folk music for several years. They recently released the album, Fortress of the Sun. During a recent live performance in the Echoes Living Room they talked about their…
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Celtic Returns, Prog on the Side, Experiment into Ambient
We’ve got a lot of new music from old friends today on Echoes. Clannad, the legendary Irish band and one of the groups that launched the Celtic renaissance in the 1980s, returns with their first album in 15 years. It’s called Nádúr, Gaelic for nature, and it brings the core members of Clannad back together,…
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Akara – Music from Other Worlds.
“There are other worlds they have not told you about. They wish to speak to you.” -Sun Ra Hear Akara Interviewed On Echoes Tonight The band called Akara has returned from another trip to other dimensions with a new CD The World Beyond. Their previous CD, Extradimensional Ethnography, was an Echoes CD of the Month…
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Mystic Music from Maine with Arborea
Hear Arborea Interviewed Live Tonight on Echoes Arborea is Buck & Shanti Curran, a husband and wife duo from Maine who have been making a dreamy psychedelic folk music for several years. They recently released the album, Fortress of the Sun. During a recent live performance in the Echoes Living Room they talked about their…
CD of the Month
Darshan Ambient’s Little Things
Darshan Ambient’s Little Things – The Echoes CD of the Month for September Hear it featured Labor Day Evening on Echoes In the days before YouTube, iTunes and most other on-line music sources, Darshan Ambient was a minor star at mp3.com, the renowned legal music download site. He released his music there and garnered nearly…
Interview Podcast
Steve Kilbey & Martin Kennedy Echoes Interview Podcast.
The Church Broadcasts on All India Radio: Hear an Interview with Steve Kilbey and Martin Kennedy in the Echoes Podcast. Steve Kilbey is the lead singer and guitarist with the Australian band, The Church best known for their 1988 hit, “Under the Mily Way.” Martin Kennedy leads the Australian ambient rock band, All India Radio.…
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Echoes Interview: Northcape’s Spacescapes
Hear an interview with English electronic artist Northcape tonight Back in the early 1960s, Bell Laboratory’s inventor, Max Mathews created a lot of the early synthesizer and computer music technology. His program called Music was one of the first for making music on computers. He predicted that in the future, anyone, musicians and non-musicians alike, …
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Philadelphia Electronics & English Dream-Pop
Tonight on Echoes, Music recorded live in Philadelphia when we hear music from Ian Boddy’s Liverdelphia. The title sounds a bit like a disease, but it’s an awkward amalgamation of Liverpool and Philadelphia where this album was recorded live in concert. We’ll also hear new music by the English dream-pop band, Still Corners off their…