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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090617.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSteve Roach has created 20 years of Echoes Soundscapes. You can hear an audio version of this blog with Steve Roach’s music. Steve Roach calls his studio the Time Room and it’s an appropriate name for a place where music plays with concepts of time and perception. STEVE…
Wendy Carlos did much more than just record Switch-On Bach. She created some of the most inventive and influential albums of the 20th century. Here’s four of them.
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091111.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSGong-The Original Psychedelic Space Gypsies at 40. You can hear an audio version of this blog, with Gong’s music. The voyage of the original Star Trek ended in 1969, but another band of space travelers called Gong launched that year and they’re still wandering the galaxies. Gong is…
Electronic Music Icons Play Live in Philadelphia. In case you haven’t been following all things electronic, the English synthesizer duo, ARC is making their first US appearance ever on November 14th at St. Mary’s Parish Hall on the Penn campus in Philadelphia as part of The Gatherings series. Mark Shreeve and Ian Boddy are from…
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091104.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSEcho Location: Baaba Maal To hear an audio version of this blog with Baaba Maal’s music, go here Senegalese singer Baaba Maal emerges out of the griot tradition, African story-tellers who usually accompany themselves with the kora. Legendary griot, Mansour Seck was his childhood friend and mentor, but…
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091028.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS1980s Shoegaze Guitar Icon Unfolds an Instrumental Opus You can hear an Audio version of this blog with Robin Guthrie’s music. You can read a complete review of Carousel here. As a member of the legendary new wave band, the Cocteau Twins, Robin Guthrie established a guitar sound…
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-BrianEno60.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFIVE CDS FOR AN ICON OF ECHOES: BRIAN ENO Listeners recently voted for the 20 Icons of Echoes and topping the poll by a wide margin was Brian Eno. A few years ago I did a blog called 3 Degrees of Separation from Brian Eno. Actually, for most…
The Listeners Have Spoken with their 20 Favorite Echoes Artists. The results are in from our 20th Anniversary Listener Poll and we’ve got your 20 favorite Echoes artists for 20 years of Echoes. The list skews heavily towards older acts. Of the 20 artists, only four began recording during the Echoes years. Moby and Mark…
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091021.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe Perils of Growing Up Echoes with Urban Nature Ramesh and I both grew up listening to Echoes and I remember being a teenager and listening to Echoes as I’d fall asleep at night. And so being exposed to Windham Hill and I’d go into the record store…
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSTuvan throat Singers Huun Huur Tu get electrified by Carmen Rizzo. You can hear an audio version of this blog, with music, here. In a New York hotel room, Bapa Sayan is singing in a low guttural moan that sounds like gorillas gargling. He does this in a…