Today we unveil the Best of Echoes 2014. It’s a list that draws from across the Echoes spectrum, revealing the eclectic sound of the show within our framework of chilled moods.
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Best of Echoes 2014
Tag: Ambient Chamber Music
Reviews & Commentary
Yoed Nir Live 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…
Program Highlights, Reviews & Commentary
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…
CD of the Month
Philip Selway’s Weatherhouse CD of the Month
Philip Selway is the drummer from Radiohead, but that information does little to prepare you for the sensitive, gentle songs of broken love and redemption that populate his second solo album, Weatherhouse. Even his first album, the more folk inclined Familial, won’t set you up for the lush textures and seductive melodies he conjures. Weatherhouse…
Interview Podcast
Maya Beiser’s Art Rock Cello In Echoes Podcast
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We talk with cello goddess, Maya Beiser, about her music for power cello.
Reviews & Commentary
Ricochets: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 20.
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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…
Reviews & Commentary
An Echoes Jam on Yoed Nir
Last night Echoes listeners got to hear cellist Yoed Nir performing live in the Echoes Living Room. He was creating looping orchestrations with his cello, all of it played and much of it improvised in the moment. Greg Pelican, a subscriber to Echoes On-Line was so charged up, he picked up his drum sticks and…
CD of the Month
July CD of the Month – Yoed Nir The Next Dream
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/audio/TimeIsUp.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSYoed Nir creates Ambient Cello Orchestras: The Next Dream Hear it featured tonight on Echoes It’s a good time to be a cellist. Rock artists from Arcade Fire to Shawn Colvin are using them to provide just that right amount of elegant soul to their work. And the…
Program Highlights
Chilled Cellos 2014
When is a cello more than a cello? When it’s played by looping cellists who turn their strings into an orchestra. Or it’s in a cello rock band with three cellos. Or it’s sonically processed in an electronic landscape. You’ll hear that and more with Chilled Cellos. I’ve got several loopers including Matthew Schoening, Jami…
CD of the Month
Hammock From Abyss to Revelation.
In a world of dance beats, rapid fire sequences and songs devolving into little more than hooks, Hammock takes a deeper, darker more textured approach. They are the Mark Rothko of ambient music with sheets of sound shifting beneath each other like tectonic plates, but with the hint of melody and the feel of spirits…