Richard Leo Johnson Returns with a Trip Even Further Out on the Limb Richard Leo Johnson first came to our intention in 1999 when he released a pair of albums on Blue Note Records. He was a ferocious finger-style guitarist, taking the techniques developed by Michael Hedges and pushing them further. Then he went off…
Brian Eno & Karl Hyde’s Electro Beat Poetry You might recall that last year Karl Hyde from the band Underworld released an album with Brian Eno collaborator Leo Abrahams called Edgeland. (You can hear an Echoes interview with them). That was a great album and now Hyde has teamed up with Brian Eno himself for…
Singer-Songwriter Marissa Nadler tonight on Echoes. Her mother was an abstract artist. She grew up on Nirvana and Mojave 3 and recorded with an experimental Heavy Metal artist. All aspects you might not expect from a women who makes gently melodic, atmospherically mysterious, and lyrically intriguing music, playing on fingerstyle guitar with a voice that…
Cellist Hans Christian creates Global Serenity with Hidden Treasures The Echoes May CD of the Month Hans Christian launches his new CD playing cello. It’s the instrument he began with studying classical repertoire and he’s done recordings with it from the purely Renaissance album, Light and Spirit, to pure solo improvisations on Sancta Camisia, and…
Mary Fahl Talks of Love, Werewolves and Grace Slick in Echoes Podcast Mary Fahl doesn’t sound like any other modern singer. You have to go back to vocalists like Sandy Denny of Fairport Convention and Grace Slick of The Jefferson Airplane to find a reference point for a sound which is more like warrior angels…
Mary Fahl Talks of Love, Werewolves and Grace Slick in Echoes Podcast One of the most distinctive voices in modern music has been singer Mary Fahl. While we love the “ethereal girls” on Echoes, Mary Fahl is powerhouse singer whose roots are more Grace Slick and Sandy Denny than Elizabeth Fraser and Suzanne Vega. She…
New Music from Bear McCreary & The Montreal Guitar Trio Tonight on Echoes, new music from a film nobody saw, but you’ll definitely recognize the composer. It’s Bear McCreary who scored Battlestar Galactica and The Walking Dead as well as many films. We’ll hear his soundtrack to The Nights of Badassdom. This movie was released…
Tonight on Echoes Hear an Interview with Tycho’s Scott Hansen For most of the last decade there has been a strain of Rock music that didn’t really rock out, but instead took a more introspective and almost ambient course, often mixing guitars with electronics. And they usually don’t have singers, at least in a conventional…
Dream-pop Dominates Echoes Top Ten in April The year is 25% done and here’s some of the music that’s been bubbling to the top of the Echoes playlists during April. Of course, Lyla Foy’s April CD of the Month, Mirrors the Sky is number one and deservedly so. Look for live performances and interviews with Foy…
Hear Mary Fahl Talk About Influences from the 60s, October Project and Werewolf songs tonight on Echoes Mary Fahl doesn’t sound like any other modern singer. You have to go back to vocalists like Sandy Denny and Grace Slick to find a reference point for a sound which is more like warrior angels than heavenly…