Echoes explores the chilled world of music from Scandinavia with electronic sounds from Norway, dream pop from Denmark, downtempo electronics from Sweden and ambient chamber music from Iceland. Iceland’s Ólafur Arnalds and Sigur Ros; Denmark’s Agnes Obel and Manual, Norway’s Terje Rypdal and Green Isac; Sweden’s Solar Fields and more. Turn out the lights. The…
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Program Highlights
Karl Hyde
Tonight on Echoes: Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams Karl Hyde is one-half of the popular dance group called Underworld. But he’s launched a new conceptual CD called Edgeland that trades dance beats for introspective moods. Hyde and his collaborator, Leo Abrahams, talk about their electro-noir tales. Here you can see the music video for Karl…
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New Music: Mike Oldfield and Daft Punk on Echoes
Tonight on Echoes it’s Mike Oldfield Remixed. We’ll hear something from a CD called Tubular Beats that takes Oldfield classics into electronic terrain. And speaking of electronic, we’ll hear a track off of Daft Punk’s new CD, Random Access Memories. Here you can see Mike Oldfield performing “Tubular Bells (Night of the Proms)” from his…
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Peals Live on Echoes- Tuesday, June 4th
Peals is an ambient chamber music group from Baltimore making an intuitive, swirling, meditative sound. They play from their newly released LP, Walking Field, live on Echoes. Below is Peals’ first video from Walking Field called “Belle Air”. John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign up for Echoes CD of the Month Club. With the Echoes CD of the…
CD of the Month
Rachel Zeffira – The Deserters – Echoes CD of the Month
Rachel Zeffira’s The Deserters Echoes June CD of the Month Hear Rachel Zeffira’s The Deserters 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…
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SASQUATCH! 2013 Review
FOUR DAYS OF PEACE, DRUGS, DRUNKS & MUSIC @ SASQUATCH! FESTIVAL 2013 If you are able to move past the endless slew of drunken, drugged up party animals that seem to make up the majority of the Sasquatch! Music Festival crowd, there were four great days of live music and camping to be immersed in.…
Interview Podcast
Pat Metheny Book of Angels Interview Podcast
Hear Pat Metheny talk about Tap: John Zorn’s Book of Angels in the Echoes Podcast. You never know quite where guitarist Pat Metheny is going to land. In just the last three years he’s recorded a album with his mechanical orchestra called The Orchestrion, released a solo guitar album of 60 pop cover tunes and…
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for May
Music boxes lead the Echoes Top 25 for May in the form of Rhian Sheehan’s Stories from Elsewhere, his brilliant CD of ambient chamber music that uses music boxes as one of it’s sonic motifs. It was the Echoes CD of the Month for May. You can read a review and hear tracks from it…
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Still Corners & Laki Mera on Echoes – Thurs, May 30th
Coming up on Echoes it’s dream pop from England. We’ll hear Laki Mera and their new CD, Turn All Memory to White Noise. Then it’s Still Corners. They’re a duo from London and then have an intoxicating new CD called Strange Pleasures. It’s all on the strange pleasures of Echoes tonight. ~John Diliberto (((echoes)))…
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The Art of the Cover Tune – Echoes Undercover – Weds, May 29th
On the next Echoes we go Undercover. It’s an entire show of cover tunes from Pink Floyd to Led Zeppelin, King Crimson to New Order and more. Songs you know by artists who aren’t known for playing them. The best cover tunes reinvent a song and my standard for that will always be Jimi…