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…
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New Track from Black Angels
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…
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Progressive Ambience with Porcupine Tree’s Colin Edwin & Jon Durant
What do you listen to when the world doesn’t end? Hear one of the best albums of 2013 when we interview guitarist Jon Durant and Porcupine Tree bassist Colin Edwin about their CD Burnt Belief tonight on Echoes. Here’s a video from it. ~© 2012 John Diliberto ((( echoes ))) Sign up for Echoes CD…
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Piano Guys Pop-Classical YouTube Explosion
Hear the Piano Guys Echoes Interview The world of classical cross-over music is scattered with novelty acts that created a buzz and then faded away. One of the latest is a band called The Piano Guys. They are YouTube phenomenons with superstar viewing stats for their many elaborate videos. They’re music goes beyond simple instrumentation…
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Barry Altschul’s Swinging Freedom with 3Dom Factor
Drummer Barry Altschul Opens Ars Nova’s winter-spring 2013 season with a storming set at Philadelphia Art Alliance. It’s been a while since I’ve seen drummer Barry Altschul live. In the 70s and 80s he came through Philadelphia all the time, powering bleeding edge improvisations with the Sam Rivers Trio, The Anthony Braxton Quartet and others. …
Interview Podcast
Hammock’s Echoes Interview Podcast
Hammock Talk About their ShoegazeEpic Departure Songs in Echoes Interview Download the Hammock interview on iTunes. Hammock doesn’t sound like your typical band coming out of Nashville. There isn’t the sound of country twang. Instead, Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson mix twin guitars awash in distortion and reverb spread out over landscapes that can shift…
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Echoes Interviewed on Public Television.
Echoes on TV: Friday Arts, a program on Philadelphia PBS station WHYY, did a piece on Philly space music and interviewed Echoes John Diliberto & Jeff Towne as well as Chuck Van Zyl from Star’s End and electronic musician Jason Sloan. The feature ran Friday, 1/4/2012, but you can see it online here: http://video.whyy.org/video/2323750666 The…
CD of the Month
Enter The Ambient Zone – Echoes January CD of the Month
The Ambient Zone – Just Music Café Volume 4 starts 2013 on a serene note Within the electronic folds and acoustic shifts of The Ambient Zone – Just Music Café Volume 4, is a sound world that’s both exploratory and serene. Just Music is the UK label whose impeccable roster ranges from deep ambient artists…
Best Of
25 Essential Echoes CDs: The Best of 2012
25 Esssential Echoes CDs for 2012 There are always three year end lists at Echoes. The first is my personal Top Ten which embraces all the music I listen to, not must what I play on Echoes (John Diliberto’s Top Ten Albums of 2012 and John Diliberto’s Top 10 Songs for 2012). Then comes the…
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for December.
It’s the last monthly Top 25 for 2012 Hammock heads up the list, following on their #2 appearance in the Best of Echoes 2012 listener poll, followed by the #1 CD on that list, Dead Can Dance’s Anastasis. It was a very electronic month. In fact, you have to go down to #23 and Jeff…