Category: Program Highlights

On the Road Scapes & Morningscapes from TIno Izzo

Echoes January CD of the Month Tino Izzo’s Morning Scapes Hear an interview with Tino Izzo this weekend 3/24 & 3/25/2012 on Echoes. Tino Izzo is a musician you may not know but you’ve probably heard his work over the last two decades because he’s recorded with popular artists like Celine Dion.  But those sounds …

Top 25 CDs for December

 DARSHAN AMBIENT’S DREAM IN BLUE Leads December Top 25 CDs on Echoes. It was our December CD of the Month so it’s no surprise that Darshan Ambient’s Dream in Blue topped our Echoes Top 25 for the month.  You can read a review and hear tracks here. The first four releases on the list all…

John Diliberto’s Best of Sleepy Hollow 2011.

I’ve made my own Best of List, an Echoes Best of List, the Echoes Listener Poll and now, here’s the Best of Sleepy Hollow 2011. For those of you who don’t know, Sleepy Hollow is the long-lived weekend morning music show on WXPN in Philadelphia.   (It says 30 years on the website but it’s closer…

Best Echoes CDs of 2011.

The Best of Echoes 2011 Listener Poll Here are the results from our Listener Poll for the Best of Echoes 2011.  Saturday and Sunday Echoes listeners get to hear the Best of Echoes  Echoes 12/17 & 18/2011. Links below will take you to reviews of these albums with full track samples or to Amazon. THE…

25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2011

THE ECHOES STAFF PICKS BEST OF 2011 Here are our staff picks for the 25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2011.  You’ll notice many of these (10) were Echoes CD of the Month Club selections from this past year.  Links will take you to reviews and tracks from these albums. Here’s our list.  You can also…

Echoes Top 25 Goes to Another Dimension

Akara’s  Extradimensional Ethnography tops Echoes November Top 25 The Echoes Top 25 is a bit wild this month.  Akara, of course heads it up with their Extradimensional Ethnography, an album that gets deeper with each listen.  That’s an Indi release from Joshua Pullman, but our second album on the list isn’t even a CD, it’s…

Darshan Ambient: December CD of the Month

It’s a Spacey December with Darshan Ambient’s Dream in Blue You can hear an interview with Darshan Ambient tonight 3/15/2012 on Echoes. You can’t go wrong with Miles Davis as an influence but you can go wrong paying tribute to the jazz giant with fawning recreations or banal interpretations.  Michael Allison, recording as Darshan Ambient,…

ECHO LOCATION-A Live CD from Echoes

ECHO LOCATION-The Latest CD of Exclusive Echoes Live Performances That ping you hear is the sound of Echo Location, our 17th volume of Echoes Living Room Concerts.  Like the previous albums, it’s a remarkable selection from across the Echoes spectrum of live performances, recorded in locales that range from the Echoes Black Box to a…

Echoes Poll Opens-John Diliberto’s Top Ten

THE ECHOES 2011 LISTENER POLL IS OPEN  I submitted Top Ten lists to Echoes affiliate WXPN, in the beginning of November. Personally, I think polls are a blast.  I love reading the albums that other DJs, critics and personalities have created.  Whether they affirm my own tastes and opinions or elicit a WTF reaction, it…

Patrick O’Hearn leads Echoes Top 25

Patrick O’Hearn’s Transitions, our Echoes CD of the Month, leads Echoes Top 25 for October. This month’s list is definitely plugged in, especially the Top 10 with Patrick O’Hearn (read review), Jeff Oster, Bryan Carrigan, Jon Durant, David and Steve Gordon, Steve Hackett and Falling You all being heavily electronic.  Even when acoustic instruments are…