It’s a Spacey December with Darshan Ambient’s Dream in Blue You can hear an interview with Darshan Ambient tonight 3/15/2012 on Echoes. You can’t go wrong with Miles Davis as an influence but you can go wrong paying tribute to the jazz giant with fawning recreations or banal interpretations. Michael Allison, recording as Darshan Ambient,…
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Living Room Concerts
ECHO LOCATION-A Live CD from Echoes
ECHO LOCATION-The Latest CD of Exclusive Echoes Live Performances That ping you hear is the sound of Echo Location, our 17th volume of Echoes Living Room Concerts. Like the previous albums, it’s a remarkable selection from across the Echoes spectrum of live performances, recorded in locales that range from the Echoes Black Box to a…
Best Of
Echoes Poll Opens-John Diliberto’s Top Ten
THE ECHOES 2011 LISTENER POLL IS OPEN I submitted Top Ten lists to Echoes affiliate WXPN, in the beginning of November. Personally, I think polls are a blast. I love reading the albums that other DJs, critics and personalities have created. Whether they affirm my own tastes and opinions or elicit a WTF reaction, it…
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Patrick O’Hearn leads Echoes Top 25
Patrick O’Hearn’s Transitions, our Echoes CD of the Month, leads Echoes Top 25 for October. This month’s list is definitely plugged in, especially the Top 10 with Patrick O’Hearn (read review), Jeff Oster, Bryan Carrigan, Jon Durant, David and Steve Gordon, Steve Hackett and Falling You all being heavily electronic. Even when acoustic instruments are…
Program Highlights
Music from Another Dimension: Akara.
The global orchestration of Akara’s Extradimensional Ethnography is the Echoes CD of the Month for November Hear Akara interviewed this weekend 12/4-6 on Echoes If Afro Celt Sound System had brought Philip Glass and Dead Can Dance into their trans-global orbit, it might have sounded like Akara. It’s a fantasy meeting of orchestral, electronic and…
Program Highlights
A Mazmoneth Fright on Echoes Halloween
Halloween is coming and we’ll be running an Echoes Halloween on Monday, October 31. Don’t Turn Out the Lights. While I was gathering tracks to put in the show I came across a video by Mazmoneth, a duo that records on Ian Boddy’s DiN label. Their album Music by Mirrors combines the DiN label’s penchant…
CD of the Month
Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud & Johanna and the Dusty Floor.
From Symphonic Guitar Distortion to Ethereal Songs. We’re offering two CDs as bonuses to new members of the Echoes CD of the Month Club. Either of them could’ve been club selections themselves. EVERY SILVER LINING HAS A CLOUD An echo of Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” theme with spoken word is a deceptive opening to this deeply…
CD of the Month
Patrick O’Hearn Transitions Echoes CD of the Month.
Echoes Icon Patrick O’Hearn returns with Transitions, The Echoes CD of the Month for October From the opening notes of “Reaching Land,” an echoing piano against a delayed pulse, it’s obvious that Transitions is a Patrick O’Hearn album. It brings up memories of CDs like Indigo and Metaphor with its dark melancholy, hushed lyricism and synth…
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 Surrenders to Jeff Oster.
Jeff Oster’s seductive album of lounge electronica, Surrender, leads the Echoes Top 25 for September. After a month of repeats it was great to get into new music this past month and a lot of it is in the Echoes Top 25. Jon Durant leaps to the head with his new album, Dance of the…
CD of the Month
Surrender to Jeff Oster’s September CD of the Month.
Hear Jeff Oster interviewed tonight 02/01/2012 on Echoes. It’s Ambient Electronica Lounge Sounds from Horn Player Jeff Oster As Echoes September CD of the Month Until recently, you didn’t hear much trumpet outside of jazz in contemporary music. There’s Jon Hassell, Mark Isham and you’re pretty much done. But lately there’s been a cavalcade of…