Here are the stories behind last four artists to appear on Refractions: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 12. What a coincidence that only a few hours ago I stepped out of the Echoes Living Room after a new concert with Al Petteway & Amy White. They drove up today from North Carolina to record…
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Living Room Concerts
Four Stories from Refractions: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 12
Refractions: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 12 launches Thursday night, November 16. The music on this CD tells a story of its own, a sound of synthesis and collaboration, world fusions, ambient designs and sonic explorations. But there are also stories behind each of those songs, unique circumstances that are part of the wonder…
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Download This: Lisa Gerrard, Patrick O’Hearn bypass CDs
Tonight on Echoes, (tomorrow in Philadelphia) you’ll hear an hour of music that you can only buy on-line. This isn’t a new phenomenon and I wrote about it a few months back (Farewell CD), but the transition is happening faster than I expected. MP3.com helped pioneer digital delivery before effectively folding its tent three years…
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Arvo Pärt Reinvented
It was a double dose of Amiina and Slow Six this weekend. Earlier, I wrote about their Echoes Living Room Concert performances. But I also got to see them in regular concert performances, both on the same day. There were only about 60 people at the Slow Six concert this past Saturday night at The…
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Ambient Chamber Music-Slow Six & Amiina
It’s ambient chamber music madness today on Echoes. We have two acts coming in whom we’ve wanted for a while. Even though neither have a new CD, opportunity knocked and we opened the door. Right now I have Slow Six warming up in the echoes Living Room. Slow Six is Christopher Tignor and 4 other…
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My Day in Music 5 Years Ago: U2, Lisa Gerrard, Hilmar Orn Hilmarson
We’ve been asking musicians about their reactions to 9-11 over the course of the last five years. Some of the best responses appear in our 9-11 memorial show, A Requiem Soundscape, Echoes Remembers September 11. Others appear on our website on the Requiem Soundscape page. I was surprised how few musicians heard music in their…
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John Diliberto gets Warped on the Warped Tour 2006: Joan Jett, Emo, Screamo and Punk Metal Mania-The Future Sound of Echoes?
When you have a 12-year old daughter, you don’t wind up taking her to shows with Brian Eno, Loreena McKennitt or Pat Metheny. At 12 she’s either listening to Britney Spears, Hip-Hop or some form of alternative rock. Fortunately, in my daughter Grace’s case, it’s the latter, especially pop-punk and emo. So it was that…
CD of the Month
Banco de Gaia & Farewell Ferengistan
We’ve selected our July CD of the Month and it’s by veteran English artist Banco de Gaia, the nom de plume of Toby Marks. You can read my review of Farewell Ferengistan here and listen to the show tonight (tomorrow in Philly). Toby uses a lot of sample CDs on this album, something to which…
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Some NEARfest final thoughts
You could write a book on the 8th Annual NEARfest, but I’ll just give you a few words. Chad Hutchinson and company run a first class operation in a perfect venue catering to fans who are there for one thing, the music. Rarely will an artist find a more rapt and attentive audience, ready for…
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NEARfest Day 3-Keith Emerson, Ange, Niacin, Guapo, Michael Manring
The final day of NEARfest drew to an anti-climatic close, but before the anti-climax there was some astounding music. The day opened like the Bethlehem weather, a storm of darkness with Guapo. They are a surprisingly young band from England. Bassist James Sedwards looked like a high school junior and guitarist Kavus Torabi stared defiantly…