Canadian finger-style guitarist Don Ross comes into Echoes to play his complex compositions for guitar which includes two-handed tapping. Here’s Don Ross in somebody else’s Living Room playing “Cup of Pop” from his latest album, Upright & Locked Position. John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign up for Echoes CD of the Month Club. CD of the…
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Interview: Seti the First
Kevin Murphy and Thomas Haugh are Irish musicians but their music isn’t traditional. Inspired by The Penguin Café Orchestra they make their own quirky ambient chamber music, including instruments from the Markophone Colony. Highlights Thomas Haugh: Marxophones, Ukelins, these things were made as kind of gizmos, sold door to door and in toy shops, billed…
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Interview: Yes Is The Answer editors Marc Weingarten and Tyson Cornell
A Pure Hour of Progressive Rock and More tonight on Echoes. Marc Weingarten and Tyson Cornell are Progressive Rock fans and they’ve edited a collection of personal essays about the genre called Yes is the Answer and Other Prog Rock Tales. Contributors such as novelist Rick Moody and music critic Jim DeRogatis write about their…
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Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Lloyd Cole: Clustered Commotions.
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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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…