Peals is an ambient chamber music group from Baltimore making an intuitive, swirling, meditative sound. They play from their newly released LP, Walking Field, live on Echoes. Below is Peals’ first video from Walking Field called “Belle Air”. John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign up for Echoes CD of the Month Club. With the Echoes CD of the…
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CD of the Month
Rachel Zeffira – The Deserters – Echoes CD of the Month
Rachel Zeffira’s The Deserters Echoes June CD of the Month Hear Rachel Zeffira’s The Deserters tonight on Echoes. She turns her opera-trained soprano into a caressing hush; mixes circus organ with a song about suicide; and uses oboe arrangements that sound like the The Left Banke’s “Pretty Ballerina.” That’s only part of the allure in…
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SASQUATCH! 2013 Review
FOUR DAYS OF PEACE, DRUGS, DRUNKS & MUSIC @ SASQUATCH! FESTIVAL 2013 If you are able to move past the endless slew of drunken, drugged up party animals that seem to make up the majority of the Sasquatch! Music Festival crowd, there were four great days of live music and camping to be immersed in.…
Interview Podcast
Pat Metheny Book of Angels Interview Podcast
Hear Pat Metheny talk about Tap: John Zorn’s Book of Angels in the Echoes Podcast. You never know quite where guitarist Pat Metheny is going to land. In just the last three years he’s recorded a album with his mechanical orchestra called The Orchestrion, released a solo guitar album of 60 pop cover tunes and…
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for May
Music boxes lead the Echoes Top 25 for May in the form of Rhian Sheehan’s Stories from Elsewhere, his brilliant CD of ambient chamber music that uses music boxes as one of it’s sonic motifs. It was the Echoes CD of the Month for May. You can read a review and hear tracks from it…
Program Highlights
Still Corners & Laki Mera on Echoes – Thurs, May 30th
Coming up on Echoes it’s dream pop from England. We’ll hear Laki Mera and their new CD, Turn All Memory to White Noise. Then it’s Still Corners. They’re a duo from London and then have an intoxicating new CD called Strange Pleasures. It’s all on the strange pleasures of Echoes tonight. ~John Diliberto (((echoes)))…
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The Art of the Cover Tune – Echoes Undercover – Weds, May 29th
On the next Echoes we go Undercover. It’s an entire show of cover tunes from Pink Floyd to Led Zeppelin, King Crimson to New Order and more. Songs you know by artists who aren’t known for playing them. The best cover tunes reinvent a song and my standard for that will always be Jimi…
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Echoes – Tues, May 28th
On the next Echoes, music from German bassist Eberhard Weber. He has one of the most instantly recognizable sounds in jazz and has recorded with artists like Kate Bush. His album Resume is excerpted from live performances he played with Jan Garbarek over the course of 25 years. Below you can see a video of…
Living Room Concerts
HEM – Monday, May 27th
HEM brings their dream-folk music into the Echoes living room, playing their sensitive and introspective songs live, and telling the tales behind them. They play music from their latest album, Departure and Farewell. Below you can see the music video “Seven Angels” from their latest album: ~John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign up for Echoes CD of…
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AMBIcon Full Concert Videos – Micus, Roach, Stearns
Videos for the full concerts of AMBIcon 2013 are currently up on youtube. You”ll find them all on the AMBICON youtube page. Here’s a bunch of them with Stephan Micus, Michael Stearns, Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Jeff Pearce, Tim Story and Hans Christian. A rare confluence of ambient artists. I knew I was missing a…