Category: Program Highlights

Top 20 CDs for 20 Years of Echoes: John’s Picks

We asked listeners to pick their Top 10 CDs which will be tabulated into a list of 200 CDs for 20 Years of Echoes.  The only requirements were they had to have been played on Echoes, but could have been released at any time.  I’ve modified those rules for my list, limiting myself to the…

20 Icons of Echoes: John’s Picks

We’ve been asking you to submit your 20 Icons and Top 10 Echoes CDs for our 20th Anniversary. If you haven’t yet, go to The Echoes 20th Anniversary Listener Poll and enter for you chance to win an iPod Touch. Here’s my 2o Icons. JOHN DILIBERTO’S 20 ICONS OF ECHOES The Icons are always difficult.…

Top 5 Patrick O’Hearn Albums

We celebrate a master of Mood and ambience with Patrick O’Hearn-Then & Now Patrick O’Hearn has been one of the defining voices of modern electronic music.  Until the rise of Yanni, he was the signature artists of the Private Music label.  Since his debut album, Ancient Dreams in 1985, he’s continued releasing finely crafted, deeply…

Echo Location: Rena Jones’ Ambient Chamber Music

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090916.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSClassical string player Rena Jones, puts cello and violin into laptop generated landscapes. You can hear an audio version of this blog with Rena Jones’ music, here. If you’re a gamer, you’ve probably heard some of Rena Jone’s music. Rena Jones:  I write music for Dance, Dance Revolution.…

Harold Budd & Clive Wright Interview

https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-BuddWright.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS Harold Budd & Clive Wright: Strangers in the Ambient Night You can get the Podcast of this interview with music here. Clive Wright and Harold Budd couldn’t be more different. Born in 1936, Harold Budd is elegant, and thoughtful. He looks like he just got off the…

Echo Location: Donna De Lory’s Pop Chants

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090909.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSDonna De Lory turns sacred mantras into ecstatic pop You can hear an audio version of this podcast with Donna De Lory’s music here. Up until last year, when she was pregnant with her second child, Donna De Lory had shaked, shimmied and sung back-up vocals on every…

Echoes September CD of the Month: Fernwood’s Sangita

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090902.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSGlobal Americana Chamber Music You can hear an audio version of this blog, with Fernwood‘s music, here. Fernwood is the name of an acoustic band from southern California, but that’s about the only geographical data on this group that’s easy to nail down.  Consisting of  multi-instrumentalists, Gayle Ellett…

Echoes Top 25 for August: Bocast & MJCatalin top

Chris Bocast and MJCatalin‘s Stratagem Tops Echoes Top 25 for August. August was a bit of a strange month.  Deep Echoes listeners will have noted a lot of repeat shows as we took time to gear up for the fall and our 20th Anniversary. But great music did get played. Chris Bocast and MJCatalin‘s Stratagem…

The Five Best George Winston CDs

George Winston Then & Now George Winston is both loved and reviled. His impressionistic solo piano albums came to define the Windham Hill sound and he’s among the first musicians most people think of when you say, New Age.  Praised with five and four star reviews from Downbeat and Rolling Stone for his debut album, …

Acoustic Guitar Madness: Guitar Republic Wants You

Driving in this morning, I was thinking to myself that I was getting a little tired of the solo acoustic guitar thing.   But when I popped up Echoesspace today, I found a friend request from Guitar Republic that got the strings popping again.  They are a new Italian guitar supergroup doing the California Guitar Trio…