Hammock Talk About their ShoegazeEpic Departure Songs in Echoes Interview Download the Hammock interview on iTunes. Hammock doesn’t sound like your typical band coming out of Nashville. There isn’t the sound of country twang. Instead, Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson mix twin guitars awash in distortion and reverb spread out over landscapes that can shift…
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Echoes Interviewed on Public Television.
Echoes on TV: Friday Arts, a program on Philadelphia PBS station WHYY, did a piece on Philly space music and interviewed Echoes John Diliberto & Jeff Towne as well as Chuck Van Zyl from Star’s End and electronic musician Jason Sloan. The feature ran Friday, 1/4/2012, but you can see it online here: http://video.whyy.org/video/2323750666 The…
CD of the Month
Enter The Ambient Zone – Echoes January CD of the Month
The Ambient Zone – Just Music Café Volume 4 starts 2013 on a serene note Within the electronic folds and acoustic shifts of The Ambient Zone – Just Music Café Volume 4, is a sound world that’s both exploratory and serene. Just Music is the UK label whose impeccable roster ranges from deep ambient artists…
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25 Essential Echoes CDs: The Best of 2012
25 Esssential Echoes CDs for 2012 There are always three year end lists at Echoes. The first is my personal Top Ten which embraces all the music I listen to, not must what I play on Echoes (John Diliberto’s Top Ten Albums of 2012 and John Diliberto’s Top 10 Songs for 2012). Then comes the…
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Echoes Top 25 for December.
It’s the last monthly Top 25 for 2012 Hammock heads up the list, following on their #2 appearance in the Best of Echoes 2012 listener poll, followed by the #1 CD on that list, Dead Can Dance’s Anastasis. It was a very electronic month. In fact, you have to go down to #23 and Jeff…
Interview Podcast
Janel & Anthony Echoes Podcast.
The Avant-garde is Made Beautiful by This Washington D.C. Ambient Chamber Music Duo Hear their Echoes Interview Podcast on iTunes. Janel Leppin and Anthony Pirog are two musicians living between worlds and sometimes states. The couple are associated with the avant-garde music scene in Washington D.C. The only thing is, their music tends to be…
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So You Think You Survived the End of the World?
Well it was already over according to Sun Ra. Here’s a song for those of you who think you survived the post-Mayan Calendar apocalypse. http://youtu.be/ALe-Q9nFehA Although the best version of this song is on the album, It’s After the End of the World, I was lucky to find this video from the Sun Ra movie,…
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Best of Echoes 2012-Listener Poll Results.
Hear The Best of Echoes 2012 Rewind TONIGHT! See Spotify Playlist Below How much of a runaway was Dead Can Dance’s win in the Best of Echoes 2012 Poll? They had almost twice as many votes as the next artist, Hammock. But after that, it’s pretty tight. But what does the list say musically? It’s…
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A Song for Sandy Hook Elementary School.
I don’t usually employ the Echoes Blog as a vehicle to comment on current events. But in this time of anguish and pain, I think a song is needed. http://youtu.be/1xpkRj99FH0 ~© 2012 John Diliberto ((( echoes )))
Interview Podcast
The Reinvention of Kaki King – Echoes Podcast
Hear the Podcast of Kaki King’s Echoes Interview There’s little doubt that Kaki King has been the most high profile acoustic guitar player of the last decade. Since her 2003 debut she’s recorded several albums, collaborated with musicians like The Goo Goo Dolls, scored films like Into the Wild with Eddie Vedder and Michael Brook…