Hear the Echoes Interview with Cluster’s Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Lloyd Cole in the Echoes Podcast. In alternative rock circles, German bands from the 1980s are considered pioneers of sound. Kraftwerk, Can, Neu, Harmonia and Cluster are consistently name-checked by everyone from David Bowie and Brian Eno to Stereolab and Radiohead. Hans-Joachim Roedelius, a founding member…
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Program Highlights
American Landscapes: An Echoes July 4th Soundscape
It’s a different kind of Americana with American Landscapes as we celebrate the 4th of July with songs inspired by the vistas of the United States, from Maine to Hawaii. We’ll create fireworks for your ears as well as your eyes with Ambient Americana from Steve Roach and Sumner McKane, environmental sounds from Paul Winter…
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New Music Richard Bone & Bill Frisell
It’s music from Richard Bone. The electronic musician has a new CD called Images from a Parallel World. And guitarist Bill Frisell goes to Big Sur for his new album Big Sur. Below, watch Bill Frisell’s live performance of “”The Days of Wine and Roses” from his 2005 album East/West. John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign up…
Living Room Concerts
Living Room Concert: Radio Massacre International
It’s a trip into deep space when the English electronic trio Radio Massacre International comes into the Echoes living room and elevates us into the cosmos with a live performance. Below, watch the electronic music video of Radio Massacre International’s “Small Frozen North” from their 1995 album Frozen North. John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign up for…
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Queens of the Stone Age Reinvented
NOUVELLE VAGUE CO-FOUNDER RE-IMAGINES QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE On UNCOVERED QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Hear Olivier Libaux’s Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age tonight on Echoes. I initially heard Olivier Libaux’s CD Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age without knowing the source material. In fact, I didn’t know there was source material. I…
Interview Podcast
Lúnasa Brings Celtic Sounds to Echoes Podcast
Hear our interview with Lúnasa in the Echoes Podcast The Celtic crazed waned over a decade ago, but Celtic music, like Country & Western and Jazz, never goes away. Lúnasa are a generation removed from the first Celtic renaissance in the 1970s, but that’s the sound that infuses their take on traditional Irish music. And…
Best Of
Echoes Top 25-Rachel Zeffira Shines in June.
Echoes Top 25 for June features Dream-Pop, Ambient Chamber Music and Space Music. The Echoes Top 25 is led by singer-songwriter Rachel Zeffira whose album, The Deserters was the Echoes CD of the Month. This chamber pop singer is joined by several other vocal ensembles in the Top 25 including Karl Hyde, Olivier Libaux, Seven Saturdays…
Program Highlights
Lloyd Cole & Hans-Joachim Roedelius.
It’s A Meeting of an 80s’s Rocker and 70′ Electronic Pioneer. Tonight on Echoes, Cluster‘s (or Qluster) Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Lloyd Cole talk about their electronic collaboration. In alternative rock circles, German bands from the 1980s are considered pioneers of sound. Kraftwerk, Can, Neu, Harmonia and Cluster are consistently name-checked by everyone from David Bowie…
Best Of
Best of Echoes 2013…So Far.
Ambient Chamber Music leads The Best of Echoes 2013 ….So Far At the halfway point of the year, I look back on some of the albums that rise above the crowd. And this year it’s been harder than most to narrow it down to the 25 CDs you’ll see below, let alone picking a number…
Living Room Concerts
Rachel Zeffira – Chamber Pop Live on Echoes
Hear Rachel Zeffira play live tonight on Echoes. She turns her opera-trained soprano into a caressing hush; mixes circus organ with a song about suicide; and uses oboe arrangements that sound like the The Left Banke’s “Pretty Ballerina.” That’s only part of the allure in Rachel Zeffira’s debut album, The Deserters. Tonight you can hear…