Tag: Ambient

Interview Podcast

Ceiri Torjussen in Echoes Podcast

Ceiri Torjussen - Test

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Interview: Ceiri Torjussen. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-CeiriTorjussen.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSCeiri Torjussen is a Welsh-born classically trained composer with jazz inclinations who has recorded an electronic ambient score for the movie Test, a story about professional dancers coping with the outbreak of AIDS in 1985 San Francisco. Torjussen’s score uses classic 70s and 80s synthesizer…

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Richard Leo Johnson’s Alien Guitars in Echoes Podcast

Richard Leon Johnson & Alien Guitar

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Ambient Americana and Aliens from Fingerstyle Guitar Masterhttps://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-RichardLeoJohnson2014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSRichard Leo Johnson is an idiosyncratic guitarist who pushed the limits of Michael Hedges-style extended technique before going completely out there with an Americana music of the imagination. His new album, Celeste, posits the idea of an alien abduction as one…

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Best Of, Reviews & Commentary

The Best of Echoes 2014 …So Far

We Pick the Best Echoes CDs of the Year at the Halfway Point. Hear them tonight on Echoes. See A Spotify Playlist Below It seems like it’s been such a long year, and it’s only half over.  That’s what usually what happens when so much good music has come out. There are albums I feel…

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CD of the Month

July CD of the Month – Yoed Nir The Next Dream

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…

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Best Of

Echoes Top 25 for June 2014

Carl Weingarten - Life Under Stars

Top 25 for June 2014. Guitars Pluck at the Top of the Echoes Top 25 for June Three guitarists release one of their strongest albums this past month. Topping the list is Carl Weingarten’s CD of the Month For June, Life Under Stars, a beautiful pastoral tinged Americana travelogue.  John Luttrell is the newest of…

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Brian Reitzell in Echoes Podcast.

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Interview: Brian Reitzell. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-BrianReitzell.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHear Brian Reitzell talk about Auto Music, Hannibal, Takemitsu and driving in Echoes Podcast. Brian Reitzell is the music supervisor for films by director Sofia Coppola like Lost in Translation and The Bling Ring, and he composes original music for TV shows like Boss and…

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Echoes Top 25 for May 2014

Hans Christian - Hidden Treasures

The Echoes Top 25 for May continues a trend towards chilled out vocal music but the top three slots are held by three CD of the Month picks, one vocal, two instrumental.  Lyla Foy is a relatively new artist who used to record as Wall.  Her Mirrors the Sky album, the first under her own…

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Program Highlights

Echoes Goes to the Darkside

Hear an Interview with Darkside Tonight on Echoes. This past October I got to see the band Darkside at the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit.  They played before an impressively large audience in the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, considering they only had one album out, Psychic.  They’re a band that favors shadows, standing in twin cones…

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Echoes Top 25 for April

Lyla Foy Mirrors the Sky

Dream-pop Dominates Echoes Top Ten in April The year is 25% done and here’s some of the music that’s been bubbling to the top of the Echoes playlists during April.  Of course, Lyla Foy’s April CD of the Month, Mirrors the Sky is number one and deservedly so.  Look for live performances and interviews with Foy…

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Interview Podcast

Aphex Twin’s SAWII in Echoes Podcast

Marc Weidenbaum Dissects Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II in Echoes Podcast Hear this interview in Echoes Podcast I’m in a state right now where 20 year anniversaries don’t seem like such a big deal.  After all, we just commemorated the 30th Anniversary of Steve Roach’s Structures from Silence and the 40th Anniversaries of…

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