Brian Reitzell combines a vinyl junkies knowledge with a sound designers’ ear. Hear his interview in the Echoes Podcast In Hollywood films there are soundtrack composers and then there are music supervisors. The composer writes the underscores for films. Music supervisors sometimes work with the composer, but usually, they’re the people who pick the songs…
See Exclusive World Premiere of David Arkenstone & Charlee Brooks Origins Video Multi-instrumentalist David Arkenstone has never shied away from the grandiose. he’s in the process of completing his most ambitious project to date with singer Charlee Brooks. It’s called David Arkenstone’s Symphonic Adventure with Cirque de LA Symphonie. It combines orchestra, Cirque de Soleil…
From Nuggets to Neu, Philadelphia’s Bleeding Rainbow Channels the Psychedelic Storm Bleeding Rainbow isn’t the kind of band you’ll hear on Echoes, but every now and then a new rock album catches my ear, and takes me into a different space that I don’t visit as often as I’d like, mainly because I don’t dig…
Electronic Anthologies Top the Echoes Top 25 for January I can’t recall a time when two collections headed up our monthly Top 25 list, but it happened this month with a pair of predominantly electronic anthologies. The Ambient Zone, the Echoes CD of the Month for November is in at #1. This CD of melodic…
The English ambient band called Marconi Union played their first live performance ever in an Echoes Living Room Concert back in 2006 in The Fortress in London. There have been scant few performances since, but now they’ve recorded a live session for a film called The Redwall Sessions with an additional member on drums, rounding…
Hear the Echoes Philip Glass Podcast It’s hard for me to think of Philip Glass at 76. Even though he’s a lot older than me, I still think of him as a composer who I came up with through music. Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Terry Riley all helped bring me over from rock into…
Ulrich Schnauss’ A Long Way to Fall is the Echoes February CD of the Month. Hear an audio version of this review with music 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…
Hear the Echoes Podcast with Colin Edwin & Jon Durant Porcupine Tree is among the most popular of the recent generation of Progressive Rock groups. They’ve even enjoyed chart success. Colin Edwin is their highly regarded bass player. Jon Durant is much less well known, but he’ been putting out wonderful ambient-laced electric guitar albums…
After their extremely chilled and ambient album, Valtari, Sigur Rós are apparently getting ready to channel Nine Inch Nails on a forthcoming album. They have a short but tantalizing video out called “Breakout” that not only reveals a more dark and aggressive side, but provides more visual interest in 90 seconds than all of their…
My favorite psychedelic band has new music coming out and have a teaser single that seems timely, “Don’t Play With Guns.” It doesn’t totally blow me away, but lead singles from outside bands rarely do. I’m looking forward to the new CD, Indigo Meadows, which comes out on April 2 with a tour to follow…