I don’t follow March Basketball Madness much, but I do like March Music Madness and it’s been a great month for music on Echoes beginning with our number one CD, In A Time Lapse by Ludovico Einaudi. It was our March CD of the Month. If Ludovico Einaudi represents the best of Ambient Chamber Music,…
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Program Highlights
The Mellow is Over for Sigur Rós.
Sigur Rós has announced a new CD for June, Kveikur recorded with their new Trio configuration. Judging from this first song, symphonic slab, crushing distressed bass and exhortation vocals, the mellow of their previous album Valtari is over. There’s even a conventional hook chorus on this one. ~John Diliberto ((( echoes ))) Sign up for…
Interview Podcast
Tina Malia’s Electronic Epiphany on Echoes
Hear Tina Malia’s Electronic Epiphany tonight on Echoes. When we first met Tina Malia in 2001, she was writing ethereal singer-songwriter tunes while gearing up for intoning kirtan chants with Jai Uttal. All of it was based in acoustic sounds. But on her new CD, The Lost Frontier, Malia has sculpted an album of deep…
Program Highlights
Kevin Keller’s 1 Minute Dance Miniatures.
Kevin Keller is one of our favorite ambient chamber music composers. He’s just released on internet video a series of 1 minute compositions set to dance works and videos by producer Kyla Ernst-Alper. As with all of Keller’s work, the music is emotionally concise and cut with laser-knife precision and he’s found a perfect visual…
Program Highlights
Watermark High Electro-Psych Video
The Watermark High is the recording persona of Paul van der Walt from Johannesburg, South Africa. We’ve been playing his melodic electronica for the last year or so on Echoes. He’s just released a cool video for the song “The Disconnect” You can check out his other music on SoundCloud. ~John Diliberto ((( echoes )))…
Interview Podcast
Ulrich Schnauss Echoes Podcast Interview.
German electronic musician Ulrich Schnauss talks about religion, space music and a return to electronic sound in the Echoes Podcast. Five years after his stormy, end-of-the-world electro-shoegaze treatise called Goodbye, German downtempo synth scientist Ulrich Schnauss returns with a new CD. Gone are the layers of distorted sound, aggressive grooves and over-driven guitar timbres that…
Program Highlights
Ambicon-Space Music Festival
AMBICON – A GATHERING OF THE SPACE TRIBES As I write this, hoards of musicians, media people and fans are gathering in Austin, Texas for the South By Southwest Festival (SXSW), an annual orgy of rock in almost all, but mostly alternative, forms. It’s a place of long riotous nights and over-hyped bands playing anywhere…
CD of the Month
Ludovico Einaudi’s 21st Century Classicism-Echoes CD of the Month
Ludovico Einaudi’s In A Time Lapse Echoes March CD of the Month Hear an audio version of this review with music in the Echoes Podcast. Hear In a Time Lapse featured this weekend 3/8-10/2013 on Echoes. You could pretty much stop listening to Ludovico Einaudi’s new album In a Time Lapse after the second track…
Interview Podcast
The United States of America-Joseph Byrd-Podcast
Hear an interview with Joseph Byrd of The United States of America in Echoes Podcast. We take electronic music for granted now, but back in 1968 it was a pretty rare and novel thing. There were bands like Lothar and the Hand People, 50 Foot Hose and Silver Apples, but the group who took electronics…
Best Of
Progressive Reverberations in Echoes Top 25
Ulrich Schnauss Falls to the Top of Echoes Top 25 Music with Progressive Rock roots dominates the Echoes Top 25 for February. Ulrich Schnauss’ A Long Way to Fall was the Echoes CD of the Month. His inspirations are in 70s German space music and Krautrock as are all the musicians on the Manikin Records…