Category: Program Highlights

Dead Can Dance Rise to Echoes Top 25 for September.

Dead Can Dance resurrects themselves to the top of the the Echoes Top 25 for September with their album, Anastasis.   Anastasis means resurrection and it was the Echoes CD of the Month for September.  Sounds from the Ground returns with a surprising showing at number two with their album,  Widerworld and a couple of albums…

Brian Eno Goes Towards the Light

No, Brian Eno didn’t die.  His new album is called Lux which is a measurement of light.   Due out in November, it’s some deep ambient music closer in style to Music for Airports than anything recent.  No music out yet, but….. The music is actually based on and installation he has at the Great…

Bombay Dub Orchestra Remixed and Wrecked.

Bombay Dub Orchestra have been fusing eastern and electronic music for several years now and doing it with a grace and elegance that is unparalleled.   I still go back to their 2006 eponymous debut  album which sounds as fresh now as it did then.  Their mix of eastern modes and musicians, with  lush strings…

It’s Christmas. Projekt Gets Ornamental.

Various Artists – Ornamental (A Projekt Holiday Collection) I just got in my first Christmas album of the season and the tree-topper has been set high with Ornamental, a collection from the Projekt label.  Best known for their dark ambient and Goth recordings, as well as great electronic releases from Steve Roach and Erik Wollo,…

Hilary Hahn & Hauschka : Classical & Crazy

We recently had classical violinist Hilary Hahn and German pianist Hauschka on Echoes talking about their collaboration, Silfra.  It’s a work of ethereal atmospheres, frozen fragments and deep spaces redolent of the location where they recorded it, Iceland.  They played live on the show and this past week we ran an interview with the two…

The Soft-Focus Glow of Azure Ray.

Hear Azure Ray talk about their music on Echoes Tuesday October 23. The Dream Pop duo know as Azure Ray came into the Echoes Living Room yesterday and put on a breathless and enchanting performance playing music from their new CD, As Above So Below as well as some older songs including “November.”  Their’s is…

Dead Can Dance-CD of the Month.

[Hear Dead Can Dance’s Anastasis featured tonight on Echoes.] Anastasis is  Greek for “resurrection” and that’s what happens here with Dead Can Dance, the gothic rock band who took deep atmospheres, ritual songs and supralingua dialects to ecstatic, transcendent heights in the 1980s and 90s.  There hasn’t been any new music from the band since founders…

Summer Ends on Ambient Note: Echoes Top 25 for August.

Four recent CD of the month selections are in the Top Ten of the Echoes Top 25 for August, including our number one CD, Sebastian Plano’s The Arrhythmical Part of Hearts, an album that is sure to be in our Top 25 year end list. ECHOES TOP 25 FOR AUGUST Sebastian Plano – The Arrhythmical…

Julia Holter in a Blur

Electro-singer-songwriter Julia Holter has a recent album, Ekstasis and a new video for “Goddes Eyes 1” a haunting track of vocoder vox and “My Sex” beat. Julia is scheduled for a live session on Echoes. ~© 2012 John Diliberto ((( echoes ))) You get great CDs like Sebastian Plano’s The Arrhythmical Part of Hearts by…

Neil Armstrong, Brian Eno, Icebreaker, Apollo.

Tonight on Echoes we’ll be airing an interview with Icebreaker and BJ Cole talking about their beautiful cover of Brian’s Eno’s 1983 collaboration with Roger Eno and Daniel Lanois,  Apollo-Atmospheres and Soundtracks.  Our show was recorded last Friday, making it to early too comment on the passing of Neil Armstrong, the first man to set…