Irish singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan comes in to perform songs over her darkly nuanced album, At Swim, live on Echoes.
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2017-Echoes Program 1711B
Tag: Ambient
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Monday, March 13th, 2016-Echoes Program 1711A
Jean-Michel Jarre’s 1976 album, Oxygene remains one of the signposts of electronic music. He returns to it with Oxygene 3 as he prepares to embark on his first ever US. Tour. He talks about his electronic evolution on Echoes.
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Weekend, March 11 & 12, 2017-Echoes Program 1710A
Mike Oldfield is best known for his 1973 epic, Tubular Bells, but one of his most beloved recordings is his third album, 1975’s Ommadawn. Like Tubular Bells it was two, side-long journeys, this time into a sound that was pastoral, Celtic and African.
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Thursday, March 9th, 2017-Echoes Program 1710D
Coming up on Echoes, it’s new music by Sohn, an English singer-songwriter living in Vienna and turning his songs into a rustic ambient sound on his new album, Rennen.
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Wednesday March 8th, 2017-Echoes Program 1710C
Ry X is a musician from Australia who resides in that zone of ambient folk music like Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens and Fink. He released a beautiful album last year called Dawn that draws from his surfer boy childhood in Australia, life in Berlin, and his global travels.
Interview Podcast
Mike Oldfield in Echoes Podcast
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In the Echoes Podcast, Mike Oldfield takes us inside two of his epic works, 1975’s Ommadawn and 2017’s Return to Ommadawn. Tragedy and nostalgia beset both of these wonderful works.
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Tuesday, March 7th, 2017-Echoes Program 1710B
Michael Whalen is a skilled keyboardist and composer who has nearly 20 albums to his name ranging from electronic ambiences to solo pianos in reverb. His latest album, Dream Cycle, is inspired by his difficulties with sleep and health. He plays live on Echoes.
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Monday, March 6th, 2017-Echoes Program 1710A
Mike Oldfield is best known for his 1973 epic, Tubular Bells, but one of his most beloved recordings is his third album, 1975’s Ommadawn. Like Tubular Bells it was two, side-long journeys, this time into a sound that was pastoral, Celtic and African.
Playlists
Weekend, March 4 & 5 , 2017-Echoes Program 1709A
On the next Echoes, it’s the guitar orchestrations of Daniel Voth. He’s a journeyman musician inspired by Andy McKee’s two-handed tapping techniques.
Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes: Cyclical Dreams
Six Hours of instrumental music cycling through the night, including new music from Mike Oldfield, Djam Karet, Jean Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Max Richter and more.