25 ESSENTIAL ECHOES CDS FOR 2009 We’ve sorted through some 2000 CDs and downloads that came into Echoes in the last year and we’ve picked our favorite CDs for 2009. You can vote for your’s in the Best of Echoes 2009 Poll. Deadline is 9AM, December 11. Overall, the mood of 2009 on Echoes was…
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Echoes’ John Diliberto Interviewed on WITF
WITF, 89.5 FM, the Echoes afffiliate in Harrisburg, PA, (Saturday 9pm-Sunday 8AM) just ran an interview piece with me talking about the show and our latest CD, Still: Echoes which is a featured CD at Borders in Harrisburg . It’s on a segment called The Creative Zone produced by Cary Burkett. You can hear it…
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Echoes November Top 25: Robin Guthrie On Top
Robin Guthrie Heads up Echoes Top 25 for November As expected, Robin Guthrie‘s Carousel leads the Echoes Top 25 for November. It was our Echoes CD of the Month for November. If you haven’t heard it yet, it’s a definitive album from a musician who has defined post-shoegaze ambient guitar. Also on the list is…
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From Country to Cosmic: Michael Spriggs’ Neurasenia-Echoes December CD of the Month
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091202.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA country picker finds his ambient soul with Michael Spriggs’ Neurasenia: Echoes December CD of the Month You can hear an Audio version of this Blog with Michael Spriggs’ music. Hot guitar pickers hang around Nashville like grapes dangling from the vineyards of Napa Valley. Michael Spriggs is…
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Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze’s Griot Jazz
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091125.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAblaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze at the Crossroads of Griot and Jazz You can hear an audio version of this blog with music. The African kora is an instrument that gently seduces you with it’s sound. Made from a large calabash gourd cut in half, it’s covered in…
Living Room Concerts
Still: Echoes-Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 15
Still: Echoes, the Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 15 has arrived. Like all our CDs it’s a perfect Echoes blend of music from pure acoustic works to the extremes of electronic music, with ambient chamber music nestled next to deep space explorations. The album builds in an arc from Jesse Cook’s sweet “Rain,” with some…
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John Diliberto’s Top Ten CDs & Songs for 2009.
John Diliberto’s Personal Top Ten. It seems like every year, annual year end lists are coming earlier and earlier. Just as Christmas decorations start turning up in stores around the beginning of October, year end lists are arriving the beginning of November. And of course, Echoes has already launched its Best of Echoes 2009 Poll. …
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ECHOES TOP 25 for October: Phil Keaggy & Jeff Johnson’s Frio Suite #1
Phil Keaggy & Jeff Johnson’s Frio Suite Tops Echoes Top 25 for October. October was a strange month for Echoes. We spent two weeks running down the listeners 200 CDs for 20 Years of Echoes. Great shows. Not a lot of current music, but we made up for it by playing almost exclusively new music…
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Echoes Top 25 for September: Fernwood Heads List
Fernwood tops the Echoes Top 25 for September with their CD of the Month, Sangita September was another strong month for new music on Echoes, led by the second album from Fernwood, Sangita. I wrote about this group and their global Americana chamber music in my September CD of the Month review. Interestingly, the top…
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Echoes CD of the Month: Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy’s Frio Suite
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/JohnsonKeaggyEL.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSKeyboardist Jeff Johnson and Guitarist Phil Keaggy converge on a CD of Pastoral Chamber Ambiences You can hear an Audio Review of Frio Suite, with Music here. Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy are musicians from different musical worlds. Jeff Johnson is best known for his many Celtic and…