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…
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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…
Program Highlights
Lloyd Cole & Hans-Joachim Roedelius.
It’s A Meeting of an 80s’s Rocker and 70′ Electronic Pioneer. Tonight on Echoes, Cluster‘s (or Qluster) Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Lloyd Cole talk about their electronic collaboration. 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…
Best Of
Best of Echoes 2013…So Far.
Ambient Chamber Music leads The Best of Echoes 2013 ….So Far At the halfway point of the year, I look back on some of the albums that rise above the crowd. And this year it’s been harder than most to narrow it down to the 25 CDs you’ll see below, let alone picking a number…
Living Room Concerts
Rachel Zeffira – Chamber Pop Live on Echoes
Hear Rachel Zeffira play live tonight on Echoes. She turns her opera-trained soprano into a caressing hush; mixes circus organ with a song about suicide; and uses oboe arrangements that sound like the The Left Banke’s “Pretty Ballerina.” That’s only part of the allure in Rachel Zeffira’s debut album, The Deserters. Tonight you can hear…
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Lo-Fi Dreampop from Wall
Hear the Echoes interview with Lyla Foy of Wall I don’t think we’ve ever had an artist interviewed on the show with as little materiel as Wall. That’s the recording persona of English singer-songwriter Lyla Foy who has managed to build up a lot of buzz with a sparse amount of materiel equaled only by…
Interview Podcast
Hooverphonic on Echoes Podcast
Hear Hooverphonic Interviewed in the Echoes Podcast. Hooverphonic is a band that’s been at the borders of popularity for the last 15 years or so. They’ve actually had several hits in Europe and you might’ve heard their music in movies like Stealing Beauty and on TV ads for Volkswagen and Motorola. This Belgian group started…
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An Echoes Summer Solstice
It’s the longest day of the year and Echoes has the music to welcome in summer. We trip the sunlight fantastic on an Echoes Summer Solstice Soundscape. We’ll hear music with the sun in it’s eyes and flowers in it’s hair. It’s not the summer of love, but you might think so with an Echoes…
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New Music: The Boards of Canada & Sigur Rós
New music by downtempo electronic denizens, The Boards of Canada, from their highly anticipated and hyped Tomorrow’s Harvest, and the latest by Sigur Rós off their new album Kveikur (Candlewick). Below, watch Sigur Rós’ “Hoppipolla” from their 2005 album, Takk. John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign up for Echoes CD of the Month Club. With the Echoes…
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Sigur Ros Live From Dresden.
Sigur Rós will be playing a live performance of their new CD Kveikur on-line today from Dresden. It will take place at 2:50 PM ET. Judging from reports of their recent tour and their intense performance on Jay Leno a few weeks ago, it should be wild. It’s also supposed to have a surround camera…