Ambient Post-Rock Avatars Transcend their Roots Hear Hammock interviewed on Echoes Tonight 03/06/2013. In an immersive experience where time loses meaning and there is no up nor down, it takes a quantum physicist’s sense of time and an astronaut’s sense of space to navigate. Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson are neither scientists nor pilots, but…
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CD of the Month
Top Ten Albums of 2012 by John Diliberto.
Deep moods and a couple of quirky releases highlight John Diliberto’s Top Ten Albums for 2012. 2012 will be a year marked by really good albums, but not necessarily groundbreaking, earth shattering or definitive works that place any one release ahead of the pack. There are a few albums I could’ve picked as number one,…
Program Highlights, Reviews & Commentary
Little People’s Ambient Chamber Music.
Listen to the Little People Echoes Interview Here. In the world of electronic music we sometimes forget that that description also embraces Hip Hop and Rap music. That is, those of us on the space and ambient side of things forget. But Laurent Clerc grew up listening to American and English Hip-Hop and even played…
Best Of, Interview Podcast
Top Ten Songs for 2012.
John Diliberto’s Top Ten Songs for 2012 TOP TEN SONGS 1 Geigertek “Underpass” 2 The Raveonettes – “Till the End” 3 Sharon Van Etten – “Serpents” 4 Liftoff – “Summer Shone” 5 Frankie Rose “Moon In My Mind” 6 Shel – “Paint My Life” 7 Blue Foundation – “Lost” 8 Norah Jones – “4 Broken…
Best Of
Best of Echoes 2012 Poll Is Open.
Now that the Presidential Election is over, vote in a poll where you can really have an impact. We’ve launched the Best of Echoes 2012 Poll. You can win some great prizes including, One Year Membership to the Echoes CD of the Month Club A One Year Subscription to Echoes On-Line so you can hear…
Interview Podcast, Reviews & Commentary
Cage: Beyond Silence
Pianist Margaret Leng Tan and Producer Dustin Hurt on the Legacy of John Cage. Hear the Echoes Podcast about John Cage. There are icons of modern music and then there are gods. John Cage was a god. Few composers have turned music on its head the way Cage did with compositions like “4’33”, his silent…
Living Room Concerts
Tangents-Echoes Live CD
All Tangents Lead to Echoes Hear ALL of Tangents tonight on Echoes. Tangents is the latest collection of live music performances from the Echoes Living Room and once again, it’s a seamless trip through the Echoes soundscape with exclusive live recordings. Centering Tangents is Ozric Tentacles who absolutely ripped our heads off with their live…
Interview Podcast
Tycho’s Electronic Designs – Echoes Podcast.
This past Tuesday we ran our interview with Scott Hansen of Tycho, but many of you probably missed it while you were battling Hurricane Sandy. Well, now you can hear it in all its glory as an Echoes Podcast. Here’s a taste of it below. For most of the last decade there has been a…
Best Of
Post-Rock Dominates Echoes Top 25 for October.
Hans Christian & Harry Manx’s You Are the Music of My Silence leads the Echoes Top 25 for October. Their dreamy Indian evocations, the Echoes CD of the Month for October, floats like a seagull above a roiling ocean of post & alt-rock bands in the Top Ten. Tycho, All India Radio, Balmorhea, Hammock, The…
Program Highlights
Reflect on WaterSky: Echoes November CD of the Month.
Hear music from Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy’s Watersky and an interview with the artists tonight, Monday 11/5 Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy are important figures in different music worlds. Johnson came to renown as a modern instrumental keyboardist with a taste for Celtic music and a long-running partnership with Irish flutist Brian Dunning. Keaggy…