No, Brian Eno didn’t die. His new album is called Lux which is a measurement of light. Due out in November, it’s some deep ambient music closer in style to Music for Airports than anything recent. No music out yet, but….. The music is actually based on and installation he has at the Great…
Tag: Ambient
CD of the Month
Ambient Noir Moods from Marconi Union.
THE ECHOES CD OF THE MONTH FOR JULY Marconi Union’s Different Colours Hear Marconi Union interviewed tonight 8/29/2012 on Echoes. Six years years ago, Marconi Union entranced us with their second album, Distance. It was music that emerged from a smoke shrouded city, both luxurious in its atmospheres and dangerous in its menace. Heroic melodies…
CD of the Month
Air’s Safari to the Moon.
The Echoes March CD of the Month: Air’s Le Voyage Dans La Lune Hear Air’s Le Voyage Dans La Lune featured on Echoes Monday March 5 The duo called Air is one the most influential acts to come out of France since Jean-Michel Jarre in the early 1970s. Their debut album, Moon Safari is an…
Program Highlights, Reviews & Commentary
Rhian Sheehan vs Hammock
Rhian Sheehan is a wonderful ambient composer from New Zealand. His album, Standing in Silence was one of our favorites on Echoes a couple of years ago with his mixing of found sound and synthesizer cycles. He’s just collaborated with one of our favorite ambient guitar bands, Hammock, from Nashville. The original song is from…
Reviews & Commentary
Harold Budd Tribute
The OKTAF RECORDS label is putting out what looks to be a very promising tribute album to Harold Budd with people like Biosphere, Marsen Jules, and several artists I’m less familiar with. Here’s the Press Release: With “Lost In The Humming Air – Music inspired by Harold Budd” oktaf records announces an amazing collection of…
Program Highlights
Darshan Ambient’s Other Life.
Most of the musicians you hear on Echoes lead double lives. Many have straight jobs. Others work in different capacities in the music industry as engineers, studio wonks or in working bands. Michael Allison records as Darshan Ambient and since the mid-1990s he’s been releasing atmsopheric albums of electronic music. His latest, Dream in Blue,…
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 Goes to Another Dimension
Akara’s Extradimensional Ethnography tops Echoes November Top 25 The Echoes Top 25 is a bit wild this month. Akara, of course heads it up with their Extradimensional Ethnography, an album that gets deeper with each listen. That’s an Indi release from Joshua Pullman, but our second album on the list isn’t even a CD, it’s…
Living Room Concerts
ECHO LOCATION-A Live CD from Echoes
ECHO LOCATION-The Latest CD of Exclusive Echoes Live Performances That ping you hear is the sound of Echo Location, our 17th volume of Echoes Living Room Concerts. Like the previous albums, it’s a remarkable selection from across the Echoes spectrum of live performances, recorded in locales that range from the Echoes Black Box to a…
Reviews & Commentary
A Produce is Transported R.I.P.
by John Diliberto 9/10/2011 A Produce A.K.A. Barry Craig Passes Barry Craig passed away on September 4, 2011. You may not have known him by that name, but you might be familiar with the music he produced over the last two and a half decades as A Produce. He was featured heavily on Echoes, especially…
Reviews & Commentary
New Ulrich Schnauss Track
We’ve been waiting a while for new music by Ulrich Schnauss, which is one reason we were so behind Winterlight’s Hope Dies Last with it’s Schnaussian shoegaze moods. Schnauss reports a new direction and album is in the offing. Meanwhile, he’s completed a project with Mark Peters called “Balcony Sunset” that has the earmarks of…