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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…
Loreena McKennitt, BT & Ludovico Einaudi Top Listener Poll For the next two weeks on Echoes you’ll be hearing the 200 CDs that you voted for in our 20th Anniversary Poll. Surprises? Definitely at the top. We expected Loreena McKennitt to place very high in the poll, but we certainly didn’t expect her to take…
Ottmar Liebert releases collaboration with Iraqi oud player Rahim Alhaj Middle Eastern influences are already present in the flamenco music that is at the core of Ottmar Liebert‘s sound. He explores those themes even more thoroughly on Under the Rose, a collaboration with Iraqi oud player Rahim Alhaj. It’s more than just duets. Liebert brings…
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-Moby1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSMOBY SURVEYS HIS CAREER IN CONCERT, AND IT IS JUBILANT. The feel good concert of the year for hipsters and sensitive types alike can be found on Moby‘s current tour in support of his album, Wait For Me. On Sunday, September 20, at the TLA in Philadelphia, the…
Did you ever wonder what King Crimson would sound like fronted by Nancy Sinatra? Probably not, but Crimson founder, Robert Fripp and his wife, singer Toyah Willcox, collaborate as The Humans and cover Sinatra’s deathless 60s classic, “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’.” Visually, the video’s a bit on the 1980s cheesy MTV side, think…
The Echoes 20th Anniversary Poll is underway with listeners voting on 20 Icons of Echoes and 200 CDs for the 20th Anniversary of Echoes. The comments and Echoes “memories” we’ve been receiving have been gratifying and humbling. And the voting is looking fascinating. Without giving any interim results away, it seems like people have different…
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-JadeWarrior.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAn Icon of Global Fusion Paul Winter turned 70 last Monday, on August 31. You can hear a podcast of this interview, with Paul Winter’s music, here. It’s easy to underestimate Paul Winter‘s impact on contemporary music, a mistake I suspect I’ve made myself at times. After dozens…
The Echoes 20th Anniversary Poll is OPEN Help us celebrate 20 years of astounding sounds and chilled ambiences by voting in the Echoes 20th Anniversary Poll. And enter to win an iPod Touch. You get to pick 20 Icons of Echoes and the Top 200 Echoes Albums. This could be the biggest poll of Echoes…
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090819.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSGothic horror, progressive rock and soundtracks create the scene of Karda Estra. You can hear an audio version of this blog, including the Karda Estra zombie chant, here. When English composer Richard Wileman was seeking a name for his Gothic chamber music project, he looked to the movies…