Category: Reviews & Commentary

Yoed Nir Live on Echoes

Yoed Nir on Echoes

Yoed Nir plays live in Echoes Video.Yoed Nir is one of a new generation of looping cellists, joining the likes of Zoe Keating, Jami Sieber, Matthew Schoening and Hans Christian in creating orchestras of sound with just one instrument.  Although there are lots of instrumentalists who loop, outside of guitarists it seems to be cellists…

12 Months of Echoes CD Picks

A Look Back at CD of the Month Picks for 2014Tonight on Echoes we look back at our 12 CD of the Month selections.  We’ll be playing two tracks from each spread out over the two hours of Echoes tonight.  Here they all are with links to their reviews, tracks and videos. January: Hammock Oblivion…

Echoes in the Grammy Awards

Grammy Award Nominees Announced with Several Echoes Artists NominatedCongratulations to Echoes Artists Who Are Nominated for Grammys Several Echoes artist got nominated for Grammys from across the spectrum of categories including Best Alternative Album,. Best Dance/Electronic album, Best Pop Vocal album and more. The New Age category got it as close to right as they’ve…

French for Rabbits

French for Rabbits

Serene Dream Pop from New Zealand by French for RabbitsHere’s my hit replay album of the day, maybe the month.   This is yet another wonderful band from New Zealand which is starting to give Iceland a run as the-little-island-country-that-could.  The New Zealand alt/pop duo of Brooke Singer and John Fitzgerald create a delicate, folk-based dream…

10 Scary Songs for Halloween

The annual Echoes Halloween show is one of the easiest thematic programs to put together every year. There is just so much great music based around themes of horror, mysticism and alien adventures. The only problem is fitting new tracks in when there are so many great perennial tracks we like to play.  A few…

Jack Bruce, Voice of Cream, Gone at 71

When I heard of Jack Bruce’s passing, the first thing I did wasn’t to grab one of his brilliant albums with Cream, but to pull his first two solo albums (absenting the free-jazz Things We Like album) off the shelf. While Eric Clapton retrenched into rootsy American rock after the dissolution of Cream and Blind…

Ricochets: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 20.

Ricochets: Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 20

https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/audio/01PrairieSuite.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn our 25th year, the 20th Echoes Living Room Concert CD. Epic voices from the 1990s, children of progressive rock, global music explorers and a new sound of ambient pop form part of the roadmap to Ricochets, our 20th volume of live Echoes performances. Here’s some track-by-track insight into…