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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090617.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS Echoes from the Alaskan Tundra: John Luther Adams You can hear an audio version of this blog with music here Imagine a place where music changes according to time of day, geomagnetic activity, aurora shimmers, the path of the sun and moon through the sky and seismic…
Bill Frisell, Odean Pope & Sunny Murray Live There was a study in opposites that should have been studies in confluence this weekend. Two shows of jazz adventurers tried to grace Philadelphia. One of them succeeded. On Sunday Night, June 14, 2009, Bill Frisell’s long time, road-tested trio of bassist Tony Scherr and drummer Kenny…
Echoes will run an interview with film director Dianna Dilworth about her movie Mellodrama: The Story of the Mellotron On Tuesday, June 16 . It documents the history of the Mellotron and it’s forerunner, the Chamberlin. I was starting to write a blog about it along with my 10 favorite Mellotron albums when I realized,…
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090610.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAn Israeli singer turns Hebrew text into sensual electronica on Echoes. You can hear an audio version of this blog with Inbar Bakal’s music here. Israeli vocalist Inbar Bakal thought she’d become a pop singer and in 2003 she moved to Los Angeles with that goal in mind.…
Hugh Hopper 1945-2009 The name Hugh Hopper probably wasn’t well known outside of the most progressive of progressive rock circles. As a member of The Wilde Flowers and then Soft Machine, he was one of the principal architects of the “Canterbury Sound” in progressive rock, which included Caravan, Hatfield and the North, Gong . The…
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090603.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS Japanese post-rockers Mono, attain symphonic dimensions. You can hear an audio version of this blog with Mono’s music. Most composers would take offense if the orchestra playing their music was wearing ear plugs. That was the case with the Wordless Music Orchestra when they performed with the…
During Tuesday’s Fresh Air, punk icon Iggy Pop had the following exchange with Terry Gross while talking about this many near-death experiences. Iggy Pop: One time I did actually hear the trumpets and the celestial choir and all that stuff, and it was pretty insipid. Later in the interview: Terry Gross: You said during one…
I’ve been listening to some beautifully serene music lately. Not beautiful in the pretty sense, but in the sweep of the music, and not serene in the New Age relaxing sense, but in the almost aggressive focus and attention to detail. It started recently with Steve Roach‘s Dynamic Stillness. The title itself speaks to that…
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090527.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSTosca turns down the beats and turns up the atmosphere on No Hassle. You can hear an audio version of this blog with Tosca music here. The Viennese duo called Tosca may take their name from the Puccini opera, but this plugged in pair doesn’t usually have romantic…
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090520.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSEchoes celebrates Moog synthesizer inventor Robert Moog‘s 75th Birthday You can hear an audio version of this blog with music here. In the front room of his London home, Mark Shreeve of the English space band, Redshift and Arc, has a massive modular Moog system full of patch…