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…
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Echoes – Tues, May 28th
On the next Echoes, music from German bassist Eberhard Weber. He has one of the most instantly recognizable sounds in jazz and has recorded with artists like Kate Bush. His album Resume is excerpted from live performances he played with Jan Garbarek over the course of 25 years. Below you can see a video of…
Living Room Concerts
HEM – Monday, May 27th
HEM brings their dream-folk music into the Echoes living room, playing their sensitive and introspective songs live, and telling the tales behind them. They play music from their latest album, Departure and Farewell. Below you can see the music video “Seven Angels” from their latest album: ~John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign up for Echoes CD of…
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AMBIcon Full Concert Videos – Micus, Roach, Stearns
Videos for the full concerts of AMBIcon 2013 are currently up on youtube. You”ll find them all on the AMBICON youtube page. Here’s a bunch of them with Stephan Micus, Michael Stearns, Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Jeff Pearce, Tim Story and Hans Christian. A rare confluence of ambient artists. I knew I was missing a…
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Echoes Thursday 5/23, new from Iron Man 3 & North Atlantic Drift
The artist known as Mr. Little Jeans isn’t a mister and it’s not apparent that she wears little jeans. Her real name is Monica Birkenes and this Norwegian singer has a nice song on the new Iron Man soundtrack. We have that and the electronics of North Atlantic Drift. It flows into Echoes. ~John…
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Laki Mera (Weds May 22nd)
Today on Echoes it’s dream pop from England when we hear the band Laki Mera. They have a new album called Turn All Memory to White Noise being released in July this year. John Diliberto also has new music from cellist Rena Jones. It’s called Echoes and you’ll hear it on Echoes. ~John Diliberto (((echoes)))…
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Echoes Tues 5/21: Seven Saturdays Interview
Tuesday May 21st Interview: Seven Saturdays on Echoes Jonathan Haskell is a synthesis of influences. Recording as Seven Saturdays, you can hear elements Zero Seven, BT, MoodSwings, and early Pink Floyd roving through his music. In his new song-cycle, the former instrumental composer brings in guest singers for his expansive songs. Seven Saturdays has released…
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Echoes Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Tubular Bells.
Interview: Mike Oldfield – the 40th Anniversary of Tubular Bells on Echoes Hear it on-air the weekend of May 24-26 Hear the Echoes Podcast of the interview with Mike Oldfield on Tubular Bells It was forty years ago that Mike Oldfield electrified the world with his hit album, Tubular Bells. It had one composition spanning…