Category: Program Highlights

Echoes November Top 25 – Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy WaterSky.

Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy’s Echoes CD of the Month, WaterSky, Heads Up Echoes Top 25. Ambient and Ambient-tinged rock dominate Echoes Top 25 for December.  Just in the Top 10, you’ve got a diversity of ambient sounds that reveals just how broad and embracing this genre can be.  It’s not a stream.  It’s an…

Bryan Carrigan Washes Electronic Windows.

Bryan Carrigan Completes a Trilogy of Electronic CDs with Windows. Bryan Carrigan has been a journeyman musician, working behind the scenes on Hollywood films.  but in 2011, he began releasing his own music and he’s put out three CDs in the last year of his inventive and often ebullient compositions.  But towards the end of…

Hammock Swings Out 2012 with CD of the Month

Ambient Post-Rock Avatars Transcend their Roots Hear Hammock interviewed on Echoes Tonight 03/06/2013. In an immersive experience where time loses meaning and there is no up nor down, it takes a quantum physicist’s sense of time and an astronaut’s sense of space to navigate.  Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson are neither scientists nor pilots, but…

Top Ten Albums of 2012 by John Diliberto.

Deep moods and a couple of quirky releases highlight John Diliberto’s Top Ten Albums for 2012. 2012 will be a year marked by really good albums, but not necessarily groundbreaking, earth shattering or definitive works that place any one release ahead of the pack.  There are a few albums I could’ve picked as number one,…

Top Ten Songs for 2012.

John Diliberto’s Top Ten Songs for 2012 TOP TEN SONGS 1 Geigertek “Underpass” 2 The Raveonettes – “Till the End” 3 Sharon Van Etten – “Serpents” 4 Liftoff – “Summer Shone” 5 Frankie Rose “Moon In My Mind” 6 Shel – “Paint My Life” 7  Blue Foundation – “Lost” 8 Norah Jones – “4 Broken…

Best of Echoes 2012 Poll Is Open.

Now that the Presidential Election is over, vote in a poll where you can really have an impact. We’ve launched the Best of Echoes 2012 Poll. You can win some great prizes including, One Year Membership to the Echoes CD of the Month Club A One Year Subscription to Echoes On-Line so you can hear…

Cage: Beyond Silence

Pianist Margaret Leng Tan and Producer Dustin Hurt on the Legacy of John Cage. Hear the Echoes Podcast about John Cage. There are icons of modern music and then there are gods.  John Cage was a god.  Few composers have turned music on its head the way Cage did with compositions like “4’33”, his silent…

Tangents-Echoes Live CD

All Tangents Lead to Echoes Hear ALL of Tangents tonight on Echoes. Tangents is the latest collection of live music performances from the Echoes Living Room  and once again, it’s a seamless trip through the Echoes soundscape with exclusive live recordings. Centering Tangents is Ozric Tentacles who absolutely ripped our heads off with their live…

Tycho’s Electronic Designs – Echoes Podcast.

This past Tuesday we ran our interview with Scott Hansen of Tycho, but many of you probably missed it while you were battling Hurricane Sandy.  Well, now you can hear it in all its glory as an Echoes Podcast.  Here’s a taste of it below. For most of the last decade there has been a…