The Velvet Underground and Nico was a seminal album released in 1967. Even before the Summer of Love got going, VU took a darker approach to modern alternative culture with music that pioneered experimental rock.
We look back to the velvet side of the Velvet Underground and their debut album, The Velvet Underground and Nico, which was released 50 years ago on March 12, 1967.
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.
Coming up on a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by Bing & Ruth, the ambient chamber music group from New York and the latest from German electronic artist, Der Waldläufer tonight on Echoes.
World fusion took on classical dimensions when Yo-Yo Ma formed his acclaimed Silk Road Ensemble. He brought together musicians and composers from around the world to create a new dialogue in a hybrid cultural sound. We talk with Ma and other members of the ensemble.
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We celebrate the 80th birthday of one of the Holy Trinity of Minimalism. Philip Glass turns 80 this year and it’s hard to imagine the music of the last 40 years without him. Hear it in the Echoes Podcast.
We celebrate the 80th birthday of one of the Holy Trinity of Minimalism. Philip Glass turns 80 this year and it’s hard to imagine the music of the last 40 years without him.
Veteran English synthesist Ian Boddy’s As Above So Below is a masgterwork of modern electronics with a classical touch. It’s the Echoes CD of the Month for January.
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Jane Siberry has returned to release her most accessible album in years, Angels Bend Closer. She talks about themes of family, fame and faith in the Echoes Podcast.
There are 12 days of Christmas and on the next Echoes we have 12 months of Echoes CD of the Month Picks. John Diliberto plays tracks off them all from Contact’s Discreet Music in January to this December’s pick, Erik Scott’s In the Company of Clouds.