Mike Oldfield & Brian Eno both share birthdays today. Oldfield turns 60 and Eno turns 65. Each artist has shaped the music we hear today. Brian Eno has been the more prolific and expansive, working across genres and attaining massive popular success in each of the last 5 decades through his work with other artists…
Tag: Ambient
Interview Podcast
Rhian Sheehan’s Music Box Podcast
Hear Rhian Sheehan’s interview in the Echoes Podcast. New Zealand artist Rhian Sheehan has been releasing electronic albums since 2001, but he started out playing acoustic guitar. He was good enough to jam with finger-style guitar icon, Tommy Emmanuel. But after forays into pure electronic music he has emerged with a sound that brings guitars,…
Best Of
Ludovico Einaudi Leads Echoes March Madness 25
I don’t follow March Basketball Madness much, but I do like March Music Madness and it’s been a great month for music on Echoes beginning with our number one CD, In A Time Lapse by Ludovico Einaudi. It was our March CD of the Month. If Ludovico Einaudi represents the best of Ambient Chamber Music,…
Living Room Concerts
Marconi Union Live.
The English ambient band called Marconi Union played their first live performance ever in an Echoes Living Room Concert back in 2006 in The Fortress in London. There have been scant few performances since, but now they’ve recorded a live session for a film called The Redwall Sessions with an additional member on drums, rounding…
Interview Podcast
Colin Edwin & Jon Durant’s Post-Apocalyptic Burnt Beliefs.
Hear the Echoes Podcast with Colin Edwin & Jon Durant Porcupine Tree is among the most popular of the recent generation of Progressive Rock groups. They’ve even enjoyed chart success. Colin Edwin is their highly regarded bass player. Jon Durant is much less well known, but he’ been putting out wonderful ambient-laced electric guitar albums…
CD of the Month
Enter The Ambient Zone – Echoes January CD of the Month
The Ambient Zone – Just Music Café Volume 4 starts 2013 on a serene note Within the electronic folds and acoustic shifts of The Ambient Zone – Just Music Café Volume 4, is a sound world that’s both exploratory and serene. Just Music is the UK label whose impeccable roster ranges from deep ambient artists…
Best Of
Best of Echoes 2012-Listener Poll Results.
Hear The Best of Echoes 2012 Rewind TONIGHT! See Spotify Playlist Below How much of a runaway was Dead Can Dance’s win in the Best of Echoes 2012 Poll? They had almost twice as many votes as the next artist, Hammock. But after that, it’s pretty tight. But what does the list say musically? It’s…
Best Of
Echoes November Top 25 – Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy WaterSky.
Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy’s Echoes CD of the Month, WaterSky, Heads Up Echoes Top 25. Ambient and Ambient-tinged rock dominate Echoes Top 25 for December. Just in the Top 10, you’ve got a diversity of ambient sounds that reveals just how broad and embracing this genre can be. It’s not a stream. It’s an…
CD of the Month
Hammock Swings Out 2012 with CD of the Month
Ambient Post-Rock Avatars Transcend their Roots Hear Hammock interviewed on Echoes Tonight 03/06/2013. In an immersive experience where time loses meaning and there is no up nor down, it takes a quantum physicist’s sense of time and an astronaut’s sense of space to navigate. Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson are neither scientists nor pilots, but…
Living Room Concerts, Program Highlights
David Wright Live On Echoes.
Tonight on Echoes we’ve got David Wright coming into the Echoes Living Room to play live. This veteran English synthesist has been recording space music opuses since 1989 and has released 2 dozen solo albums plus recordings with Code Indigo and Callisto. David’s music is initially inspired by artists like Vangelis and Klaus Schulze, but…