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Amatorski is a Belgian band that creates an atmospheric, dusky brand of dream pop.
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Jon Hassell in Echoes Podcast
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We revisit an interview from 25 years ago with Jon Hassell. The legendary creator of Fourth World Music, collaborator with Brian Eno and Talking Heads talks about his 1989 album, City: Works of Fiction, recently reissued in a deluxe box set.
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Echoes Top 25 for July 2014
There’s some great CDs in the Echoes Top 25 for July. Leading the way is Yoed Nir’s CD of the Month, The Next Dream. He’s one of two cello albums to make the list. The other is first timer Maya Beiser with her album of cello covers, Uncovered.
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Kaya Project’s Firedance in Echoes Podcast
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Interview: Kaya Project. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-KayaProject2014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSKaya Project is the Ethno-Techo outlet for Seb Taylor who also records as Hibernation, Shakta and Angel Tears. He’s just released a new album called Firedance that ups the rhythmic ante in a frenzy of darbuka grooves and seductive melodies. Seb Taylor and singer Irina…
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Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence Echoes CD of the Month
Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence is not your usual Echoes CD of the Month. It’s not ethereal and dreamy. It won’t soothe you. But along with Beck’s transcendent (and soothing) Morning Phase, it’s one of the most important albums of the year.
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Ceiri Torjussen in Echoes Podcast
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Interview: Ceiri Torjussen. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-CeiriTorjussen.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSCeiri Torjussen is a Welsh-born classically trained composer with jazz inclinations who has recorded an electronic ambient score for the movie Test, a story about professional dancers coping with the outbreak of AIDS in 1985 San Francisco. Torjussen’s score uses classic 70s and 80s synthesizer…
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William Orbit in Echoes Podcast
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Interview: William Orbit. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-WilliamOrbit2014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS Electronic provocateur William Orbit has crafted electronic hits for Madonna (Ray of Light) and Britney Spears (“Alien“) but on his own he creates sometimes quirky, often profound, electronic songs. He’s just released the fifth volume of his Strange Cargo series and a symphonic work. They’re…
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Richard Leo Johnson’s Alien Guitars in Echoes Podcast
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Ambient Americana and Aliens from Fingerstyle Guitar Masterhttps://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-RichardLeoJohnson2014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSRichard Leo Johnson is an idiosyncratic guitarist who pushed the limits of Michael Hedges-style extended technique before going completely out there with an Americana music of the imagination. His new album, Celeste, posits the idea of an alien abduction as one…
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Carl Weingarten in Echoes Podcast
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Interview: Carl Weingarten. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-CarlWeingarten.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAn Americana Journey from Carl Weingarten on July 4 Weekend. From ambient guitar to dobro, Carl Weingarten has fused his own musical path over the last 30 years. He talks about his travelogue of Americana, ambient and electric jazz on Life Under Stars, the Echoes…
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The Best of Echoes 2014 …So Far
We Pick the Best Echoes CDs of the Year at the Halfway Point. Hear them tonight on Echoes. See A Spotify Playlist Below It seems like it’s been such a long year, and it’s only half over. That’s what usually what happens when so much good music has come out. There are albums I feel…