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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…
MY BODY MISSED WOODSTOCK, BUT MY SOUL WAS THERE Just a freshman in high school in 1969, I wasn’t quite old enough, or rebellious enough, to hit the road to Woodstock, and my parents weren’t about to take me there, although my dad did take me and my friend, Bob Chandler, to the Newport Jazz…
George Winston Then & Now George Winston is both loved and reviled. His impressionistic solo piano albums came to define the Windham Hill sound and he’s among the first musicians most people think of when you say, New Age. Praised with five and four star reviews from Downbeat and Rolling Stone for his debut album, …
The Godfather of Modern Recording passes away. Les Paul was beyond iconic. He invented the solid body electric guitar and unlike a lot of instrument inventors, actually made some great music with it. He created multi-track recording, paving the way for…… everything. Mike Oldfield, The Beatles, Arcade Fire, Brian Eno, you name it, they all…
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090812.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS One Last Farewell to the Best Frakkin’ Sci-Fi Show on Television There is an audio version of this blog that is a real trip. You can hear it here. A couple of years ago I produced a fun interview with Bear McCreary about his soundtrack to Battlestar…
Five Best Will Ackerman CDs There are a few people of whom I can say, if not for them, I wouldn’t be here. And that’s the case with Will Ackerman. He founded Windham Hill Records, still a cornerstone of the music you hear on Echoes. That would probably be enough, but he also launched the…
Composer George Russell traveled the spaceways and now he’s on the last trip. You may not have known him, but if you listen to music in general, jazz in particular and maybe even Echoes, you heard his influence. George Russell guided trumpeter Don Cherry, guitarist Terje Rypdal, saxophonist Jan Garbarek and many more into new…
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090722.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSCanadian Guitarist Ray Montford threads together country, new age and Pink Floyd You can hear an audio version of this blog with Ray Montford’s music here. Guitarist Ray Montford has garnered accolades from people like film director Atom Egoyan and Windham Hill Records founder Will Ackerman. The Canadian…
In the 1970s and early 80s, Vangelis was synonymous with orchestral electronic music the way another Greek, Yanni, is synonymous with the New Age music. Whether it’s his film soundtracks forChariots of Fire and Blade Runner, or his epic albums Albedo 0.39 and Voices, the sound of Vangelis has shaped much of Echoes‘ first 20…
Paul Winter lives for two things, the environment and music, although he would say that they are the same thing. “For me, music implies something more than just the artistic combination of sounds,” he patiently explains. “It has to do with a whole way of living, that’s musical, that’s harmonious, that’s resonant with the earth,…