Category: Program Highlights

Coyote Jump-Global Native Chamber Music.

Hear Coyote Jump interviewed tonight on Echoes (8/9/2012) Coyote Jump’s debut album, Waking from the Roots, is slightly deceiving. The cover, with its neo-primitive rendering of a coyote, looks like a typical Canyon Records sleeve for a Pow-Wow or Peyote song album. However, the first notes of a Middle Eastern frame drum and buzz stick…

Stellar Space and Western Space in Echoes Top 25.

Thierry David’s Stellar Connection Leads Echoes Top 25 for April. But right behind it is Eric Tingstad’s Badlands, his second foray into ambient Americana.  That’s the kind of contrast you’ll find in the Echoes Top 25 for April, which this month includes a collaboration in cathedral reverb between Eraldo Bernocchi, Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd;…

Ozric Tentacles-Still Psychedelic After All These Years.

While retrofitting an interview with Ozric Tentacles to run on Echoes this Wednesday, April 4, I stumbled across this video interview and live performance from the band.  The interview is pretty fluffy, but about half way in they go into their Colorado  studio and play live in a great sounds and nicely produced segment.  Ozric…

Thierrry David’s Space Music Opus.

A Veteran French Synthesist Launches the Echoes April CD of the Month Hear an interview with Thierry David tonight July 18, on Echoes. It takes a lot of discipline for a skilled, classically trained keyboardist to put his technique on hold and instead, give in to the mood and atmosphere the music requires. On his…

Air Rises to Top of Echoes Top 25

Le Voyage Dans La Lune Lands in the Echoes Top 25 It was a trippy month in March in more ways than one, but none more so than Air’s Le Voyage Dans La Lune, their retro-psychedelic electronica soundtrack for the 1902 French silent film that was also the focal point of the movie Hugo.  It…

New Sigur Rós Crosses Ambient Ocean.

There’s a new Sigur Rós album coming out May 29, Valtari.  There music has been all over HBO’s recently cancelled “Luck.” Here’s the first video from it for the song : “Ekki múkk”  It gives new meaning to ambient video.  Watch the ship come in. ~© 2012 John Diliberto ((( echoes ))) Join us on Facebook…

A Song for Echoes

A lot of people have recorded albums and songs called Echoes, and I sometimes thank them for naming their recording after the show.  That actually hasn’t been their intent, except for Tim Farrell’s “Four Echoes” (from his album, Skydancer) an inside joke when I told him that any untitled song played live on the show…

Air’s Safari to the Moon.

The Echoes March CD of the Month: Air’s Le Voyage Dans La Lune Hear Air’s  Le Voyage Dans La Lune   featured on Echoes Monday March 5 The duo called Air is one the most influential acts to come out of France since Jean-Michel Jarre in the early 1970s.  Their debut album, Moon Safari is an…

Slack-Key & Tapping Guitar Lead Echoes Top 25

Acoustic Guitars Dominate Echoes February Soundscape It’s been an electronic year so far, but for February, an acoustic guitar album by Pino Forastiere and a soundtrack dominated by Hawaiian Slack-Key guitar were all over Echoes Top 25 for February . Forastiere’s From 1-8 was the Echoes CD of the Month for February and it remains…