It’s the last monthly Top 25 for 2012 Hammock heads up the list, following on their #2 appearance in the Best of Echoes 2012 listener poll, followed by the #1 CD on that list, Dead Can Dance’s Anastasis. It was a very electronic month. In fact, you have to go down to #23 and Jeff…
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Interview Podcast
Janel & Anthony Echoes Podcast.
The Avant-garde is Made Beautiful by This Washington D.C. Ambient Chamber Music Duo Hear their Echoes Interview Podcast on iTunes. Janel Leppin and Anthony Pirog are two musicians living between worlds and sometimes states. The couple are associated with the avant-garde music scene in Washington D.C. The only thing is, their music tends to be…
Program Highlights
So You Think You Survived the End of the World?
Well it was already over according to Sun Ra. Here’s a song for those of you who think you survived the post-Mayan Calendar apocalypse. Although the best version of this song is on the album, It’s After the End of the World, I was lucky to find this video from the Sun Ra movie, Space…
Best Of
Best of Echoes 2012-Listener Poll Results.
Hear The Best of Echoes 2012 Rewind TONIGHT! See Spotify Playlist Below How much of a runaway was Dead Can Dance’s win in the Best of Echoes 2012 Poll? They had almost twice as many votes as the next artist, Hammock. But after that, it’s pretty tight. But what does the list say musically? It’s…
Program Highlights
A Song for Sandy Hook Elementary School.
I don’t usually employ the Echoes Blog as a vehicle to comment on current events. But in this time of anguish and pain, I think a song is needed. ~© 2012 John Diliberto ((( echoes )))
Interview Podcast
The Reinvention of Kaki King – Echoes Podcast
Hear the Podcast of Kaki King’s Echoes Interview There’s little doubt that Kaki King has been the most high profile acoustic guitar player of the last decade. Since her 2003 debut she’s recorded several albums, collaborated with musicians like The Goo Goo Dolls, scored films like Into the Wild with Eddie Vedder and Michael Brook…
Program Highlights, Reviews & Commentary
The Ritual and Rapture of Dead Can Dance.
Hear Dead Can Dance in an exclusive broadcast live from Geneva tonight 12/16/2012 on Echoes This article originally published in CD Review in 1990 On the day of our Exclusive broadcast of Dead Can Dances performance in Geneva in October, I unearthed this article I wrote on the band back in 1990 for CD Review…
Interview Podcast
Shoegaze Ambience with Manual – Echoes Podcast
Interview with Jonas Munk a.k.a Manual in Echoes Podcast In the early 2000’s a new sound in electronic music emerged. It mixed German Space and Progressive Rock, with Shoegaze guitar and contemporary Electronica. Two of the leading lights in this sound were Manual and Ulrich Schnauss. Manual is Danish musician Jonas Munk and he’s carved…
Best Of
Echoes November Top 25 – Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy WaterSky.
Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy’s Echoes CD of the Month, WaterSky, Heads Up Echoes Top 25. Ambient and Ambient-tinged rock dominate Echoes Top 25 for December. Just in the Top 10, you’ve got a diversity of ambient sounds that reveals just how broad and embracing this genre can be. It’s not a stream. It’s an…
Interview Podcast
Bryan Carrigan Washes Electronic Windows.
Bryan Carrigan Completes a Trilogy of Electronic CDs with Windows. Bryan Carrigan has been a journeyman musician, working behind the scenes on Hollywood films. but in 2011, he began releasing his own music and he’s put out three CDs in the last year of his inventive and often ebullient compositions. But towards the end of…