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…
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Hooverphonic on Echoes
Tonight on Echoes we talk to Hooverphonic, the Belgian band that traffics in haunting dream-pop, grooving trip-hop and John Barry-inspired songs that sound like they stepped right out of a James Bond film circa 1965. They have a new CD out called The Night Before. It’s been out in Europe for two years but is…
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Ludovico Einaudi Live on Echoes
Acclaimed Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi comes to Echoes with his electro-acoustic ensemble and plays the sometimes haunting, sometimes exuberant themes of his latest album, In A Time Lapse. Below, watch Ludovico Einaudi’s live performance of “Divenire” from his 2008 CD, Divenire. Read a review of Ludovico Einaudi’s In A Time Lapse, Echoes March CD of…
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Underworld’s Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams in Echoes Podcast.
Hear Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams talk about Edgeland in Echoes Podcast. In the 1980s, Rick Smith and Karl Hyde got together in a band called Freur and then formed the influential electronic dance group Underworld. They’ve been musically inseparable until recently. Rick Smith scored the soundtrack for Trance and Karl Hyde released his solo…
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New Music: Stephen DeRuby and Daft Punk
Tonight on Echoes, new music from world flute player Stephen DeRuby, whose new album is called Awakening. DeRuby plays all kinds of world flutes and sets them in dreamy landscapes. We’ll also hear from Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories. It’s a dance album but even dancers have to chill and we’ll hear one of the…
Interview Podcast
Seven Saturdays Echoes Podcast
Hear the Echoes Interview with Seven Saturdays in the Echoes Podcast What do you do when you’ve been weened on Brian Eno, Zero 7 and Pink Floyd, but you’re only in your mid-30s? There’s a good chance you might make music like Seven Saturdays. That’s the recording project from Jonathan D. Haskell who began making…
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Northern Lights – The Chilled Sound of Scandinavia.
Echoes explores the chilled world of music from Scandinavia with electronic sounds from Norway, dream pop from Denmark, downtempo electronics from Sweden and ambient chamber music from Iceland. Iceland’s Ólafur Arnalds and Sigur Ros; Denmark’s Agnes Obel and Manual, Norway’s Terje Rypdal and Green Isac; Sweden’s Solar Fields and more. Turn out the lights. The…
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Karl Hyde
Tonight on Echoes: Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams Karl Hyde is one-half of the popular dance group called Underworld. But he’s launched a new conceptual CD called Edgeland that trades dance beats for introspective moods. Hyde and his collaborator, Leo Abrahams, talk about their electro-noir tales. Here you can see the music video for Karl…
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New Music: Mike Oldfield and Daft Punk on Echoes
Tonight on Echoes it’s Mike Oldfield Remixed. We’ll hear something from a CD called Tubular Beats that takes Oldfield classics into electronic terrain. And speaking of electronic, we’ll hear a track off of Daft Punk’s new CD, Random Access Memories. Here you can see Mike Oldfield performing “Tubular Bells (Night of the Proms)” from his…