It’s cross country electronic journey with Mark Preston’s Nature & Design-The Echoes November CD of the Month A lot of artists get lost in the land of glitch, exulting in the sonic mutations and stuttering effects that create a kinetic groove, but tend to sound less musical with every new strategy. Mark Preston isn’t one…
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Echoes September Top 25: Plugged In
It’s a plugged in Echoes Top 25 for September. Eight of the Top 10 are electronic albums or electronically enhanced like Matthew Schoening’s Elements and Zoe Keating’s Into the Trees, both looping cello CDs by the way. But acoustic music still has an impact, with Portico Quartet.. oops! They are mostly acoustic, but they use…
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Todd Boston Alive-Echoes October CD of the Month.
World Fusion in a Pastoral Mode from Urban Nature Guitarist Todd Boston is a child of Windham Hill records and Shakti and you can hear that with his world fusion duo, Urban Nature and on Alive, his solo debut. Although to call it solo might be a misnomer. Boston plays acoustic guitar as well as…
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Chapman Stickman-Rob Martino
Echoes has an interview tonight, 9/20/2010, with Rob Martino who talks about his progressive rock approach to the Chapman Stick, an instrument invented in 1969 by Emmett Chapman. Hearing Rob play, it’s sometimes difficult to understand quite what’s going on, so, here’s a couple of videos of Rob Martino in action with the Chapman Stick. …
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Helpling & Jenkins-The Crossing: Echoes September CD of the Month.
Cinematic music in search of an epic film. The summer of 2010 may not be remembered for many great movies, (Inception notwithstanding), but David Helpling and Jon Jenkins have brought us a great soundtrack. It’s just that movie will be in your imagination. Mixing keyboards, guitars and programming, their latest CD, The Crossing states its…
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Echoes August Top 25
Matthew Schoening leads the looping cellists to head of Echoes August Top 25 Summer closes with another strong Echoes Top 25 headed up by our August CD of the Month, Matthew Schoening’s Elements. Not far behind it is our CD of the Month from July, Carmen Rizzo’s Looking Through Leaves, something we’ll be doing in…
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Parasites of the Western World.
Post-Punk-Psychedelic Space from 1978 My wife, Kimberly Haas, sent me a text message from a record store in New York City. “We stopped in a used vinyl store. What LP would earn this description? “Fucked up longhaired love child of Chrome and Cluster from 1978.” Hint: An obscure LP we used to play one track…
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Five Adventures from David Arkenstone
A Symphonic Story Teller: David Arkenstone, #18 of 20 Icons of Echoes David Arkenstone has released over forty albums in the last quarter century, although many of them aren’t recorded under his name like his Ah*Nee*Mah project with his ex-wife, Diane Arkenstone. He’s an eclectic and prolific multi-instrumentalist and composer with classical aspirations, a rockers…
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Hanging with Portico Quartet
I just finished an interview with Portico Quartet, the London band that’s part of a new generation of jazz ensembles that includes Nik Bartsch’s Ronin, Tord Gustavsen, Brad Mehldau, The Bad Plus and the late E.S.T. Portico is a fully collective trio, but the instrument getting a lot of attention is the Hang drum, made…
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August CD of the Month-Matthew Schoening’s Elements
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-MatthewSchoening.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA Definitive Album of Looping Cello from Matthew Schoening We get inundated by looping cellists at Echoes. For some reason, players of the most soulful of orchestral instruments have a predilection for hearing their own sound refracted in looping mirrors and digital delays. For Matthew Schoening‘s Elements, it’s…