We recently polled Echoes CD of the Month Club members about their favorite club CDs over the last year. As we get ready to think about our year end Best of Echoes poll, I thought everyone might enjoy reading some of the results. Overall, people seemed very happy with the CD of the Month Club…
Category: Program Highlights
Program Highlights
Post-Space Music From Tim Motzer & Bernhard Wöstheinrich
Space psychedelia descended on the Rotunda in Philadelphia last night. In the latest concert in the Event Horizon series, it was a three band show with PYXL8R, Groupthink and headlined by Tim Motzer & Bernhard Wöstheinrich. Tim Motzer is sonic experimentalist who you’ll find attending most of the outside music shows in Philadelphia from free…
CD of the Month
Eastern Moods for Echoes October CD of the Month
You can trace many movements in modern music back to The Beatles, and they are at the roots of Hans Christian and Harry Manx. Not The Beatles of “She Loves You,” but the eastern-influenced Beatles of “Tomorrow Never Knows” and especially “Within You Without You.” Musicians like the German-born Christian and English-born Manx were inspired…
Best Of, CD of the Month
Dead Can Dance Rise to Echoes Top 25 for September.
Dead Can Dance resurrects themselves to the top of the the Echoes Top 25 for September with their album, Anastasis. Anastasis means resurrection and it was the Echoes CD of the Month for September. Sounds from the Ground returns with a surprising showing at number two with their album, Widerworld and a couple of albums…
Program Highlights
Brian Eno Goes Towards the Light
No, Brian Eno didn’t die. His new album is called Lux which is a measurement of light. Due out in November, it’s some deep ambient music closer in style to Music for Airports than anything recent. No music out yet, but….. The music is actually based on and installation he has at the Great…
Program Highlights
Bombay Dub Orchestra Remixed and Wrecked.
Bombay Dub Orchestra have been fusing eastern and electronic music for several years now and doing it with a grace and elegance that is unparalleled. I still go back to their 2006 eponymous debut album which sounds as fresh now as it did then. Their mix of eastern modes and musicians, with lush strings…
Program Highlights
It’s Christmas. Projekt Gets Ornamental.
Various Artists – Ornamental (A Projekt Holiday Collection) I just got in my first Christmas album of the season and the tree-topper has been set high with Ornamental, a collection from the Projekt label. Best known for their dark ambient and Goth recordings, as well as great electronic releases from Steve Roach and Erik Wollo,…
Interview Podcast
Hilary Hahn & Hauschka : Classical & Crazy
We recently had classical violinist Hilary Hahn and German pianist Hauschka on Echoes talking about their collaboration, Silfra. It’s a work of ethereal atmospheres, frozen fragments and deep spaces redolent of the location where they recorded it, Iceland. They played live on the show and this past week we ran an interview with the two…
Program Highlights
The Soft-Focus Glow of Azure Ray.
Hear Azure Ray talk about their music on Echoes Tuesday October 23. The Dream Pop duo know as Azure Ray came into the Echoes Living Room yesterday and put on a breathless and enchanting performance playing music from their new CD, As Above So Below as well as some older songs including “November.” Their’s is…
CD of the Month, Interview Podcast
Dead Can Dance-CD of the Month.
[Hear Dead Can Dance’s Anastasis featured tonight on Echoes.] Anastasis is Greek for “resurrection” and that’s what happens here with Dead Can Dance, the gothic rock band who took deep atmospheres, ritual songs and supralingua dialects to ecstatic, transcendent heights in the 1980s and 90s. There hasn’t been any new music from the band since founders…