Category: Program Highlights

25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2010.

ECHOES PICKS THEIR TOP 25 FOR 2010 The Echoes 2010 Listener Poll is in full swing, but this is what we think was the best  music played on Echoes in 2010, compiled by the Echoes staff of John Diliberto, Kimberly Haas and Jeff Towne.   Twelve  of them were Echoes CD of the Month selections in…

Close Your Eyes-Dream Logic Is Here

Dream Logic-The Echoes Living Room Concerts v.16 72 minutes of Live Performances from Echoes. Dream Logic-The Echoes Living Room Concerts v.16 is here and it’s another journey into the magical sound world that is Echoes.  Echoes has spent the last 21 years creating links and matrixes between genres, weaving nightly journeys from ambient to acoustic…

The Best of Echoes 2010 & Diliberto’s Best

The Best of Echoes 2010 Poll is LIVE! We’ve plugged in the Best of Echoes 2010 Poll.  It’s been an interesting year  for music and we’d like to know what put a buzz in your ears from the Echoes soundscape.   You can pick your five fave Echoes albums and you ‘ll be entered a drawing…

Electronica Bliss with Mark Preston’s Nature & Design.

It’s cross country electronic journey with Mark Preston’s Nature & Design-The Echoes November CD of the Month A lot of artists get lost in the land of glitch, exulting in the sonic mutations and stuttering effects that create a kinetic groove, but tend to sound less musical with every new strategy.  Mark Preston isn’t one…

Echoes September Top 25: Plugged In

It’s a plugged in Echoes Top 25 for September. Eight of the Top 10 are electronic albums or electronically enhanced like Matthew Schoening’s Elements and Zoe Keating’s Into the Trees, both looping cello CDs by the way. But acoustic music still has an impact, with Portico Quartet.. oops!  They are mostly acoustic, but they use…

Todd Boston Alive-Echoes October CD of the Month.

World Fusion in a Pastoral Mode from Urban Nature Guitarist Todd Boston is a child of Windham Hill records and Shakti and you can hear that with his world fusion duo, Urban Nature and on Alive, his solo debut.  Although to call it solo might be a misnomer.  Boston plays acoustic guitar as well as…

Chapman Stickman-Rob Martino

Echoes has an interview tonight, 9/20/2010, with Rob Martino who talks about his progressive rock approach to the Chapman Stick, an instrument invented in 1969 by Emmett Chapman.   Hearing Rob play, it’s sometimes difficult to understand quite what’s going on, so, here’s a couple of videos of Rob Martino in action with the Chapman Stick. …