Veteran Norwegian Composer places 4th Echoes CD of the Month. Erik Wollo is an architect of ambience, a poet of electronic landscapes. Employing “cinematic” as an adjective for this music is a tiresome cliche, and it’s been applied to everything Wollo has recorded. Yet, on his latest CD, Gateway, There’s no denying the way his…
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Echoes May Top 25_Hammock Swings To Top
Hammock’s Chasing After Shadows…Living with the Ghosts Haunts the Top of Echoes Top 25 for May. Three Echoes CDs of the Month are 1-2-3 in the Echoes Top 25. Hammock from May, Ludovico Einaudi‘s Nightbook from April and Robert Rich‘s Ylang from March. It looks like the Top 25 from 2010 should be pretty good.…
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Echoes Top 25 for April-Robert Rich Ylang Sprouts to Top
Echoes Top 25 for April. The Echoes Top 25 CDs for April is up. Of course Robert Rich‘s Ylang, our Echoes CD of the Month, tops the list. Right behind him is the album of intimate duets between guitarist Ralph Towner and trumpeter Paolo Fresu, Chiaroscuro. You can see the complete Echoes Top 25 for…
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Vangelis-Icon of Echoes-10 Best CDs
VANGELIS: #11 of 20 ICONS OF ECHOES 10 Essential Vangelis CDs Celebrate the 70th birthday of Vangelis, composer of Chariots of Fires tonight on Echoes. In 2009 I posted this list of 10 Essential Vangelis CDs when we ran our Vangelis: Then & Now segment. Tonight, Thursday, March 28 on Echoes you can hear a…
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Echoes Top 25 for March: Ludovico Einaudi on Top
Echoes Top 25 for March The Echoes Top 25 for March is posted. It’s no surprise to see Ludovico Einaudi‘s Nightbook on top. It was our Echoes CD of the Month for March. Right behind it are three albums that could’ve been CDs of the month and one that is, Robert Rich‘s Ylang, which is…
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Lisa Lynne’s Metal Past
Celtic Harpists Heavy Metal Roots We all know Lisa Lynne for her serene Celtic harp music, Celtic inflections and Renaissance imagery. But Lisa has a heavy metal skeleton in her closet. She was an electric bassist in the LA Hair Band scene of the 1980s playing in groups like Matriarch (with Angels of Venice harpist…
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A Decade of International Guitar Nights
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-IGN2010.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS10 Years of International Guitar Nights You can hear an audio podcast of this interview with music There are a few all acoustic guitar ensembles out there, but the revolving members of International Guitar Night lives up to it’s name with a global cast of players. Celebrating its…
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The Mediaeval Baebes Modern Madrigals
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20100303.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe Mediaeval Baebes put the Goth into International Women’s Day on Echoes. You can hear a podcast of the Mediaeval Baebes interview with their music. Mediaeval Baebes have come a long way since the 16th century. And the band called The Mediaeval Baebes have come even further since…
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ECHOES TOP 25 FOR FEBRUARY-NAKAI TOPS
Native Flutes and Ambient Chamber Music Top Echoes Top 25 It’s no surprise that R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton & Will Clipman topped the Echoes charts this month with their uniformly exploratory album, Dancing Into Silence. It was our Echoes CD of the Month for February. And right behind it, Ludovico Einaudi‘s Nightbook, which has…
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Ludovico Einaudi’s Nightbook, Echoes March CD of the Month
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20100224.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSLudovico Einaudi’s Tales from the Nightbook You can hear a podcast of this review with Ludovico Einaudi’s music. Pianist Ludovico Einaudi is a different kind of classical composer. He’s a student of the avant-garde and the rich classical tradition of his native Italy. But the 54 year-old pianist…