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Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler talk about the art of improvised ambience on their CD, Slant of Light.
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Jeff Pearce talks about taking piano lessons from Phillip Aaberg and developing his own unique voice.
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250 Albums for 25 Years of Echoes
As we celebrate 25 Years of Echoes, listeners voted for their favorite Echoes Albums. Here’s the complete list. You can hear the top 25 of them on the Wednesday, November 19 Echoes broadcast. If you’re a subscriber to Echoes Online, you can hear all 250 in a series of “Wordless Echoes” streams. Rank Artist…
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Echoes Goes to the Darkside
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Brian Eno & Karl Hyde New Music
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Aphex Twin’s SAWII in Echoes Podcast
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Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Vol II at 20
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Eleven Earth Day CDs
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Coldplay Spaces Out
Seems like Coldplay is really spacing out on this new song called “Midnight.” They haven’t released any info about it except the video director, Mary Wigmore. But this is definitely as ambient as pop music can get. And singer Chris Martin seems ready to join the falsetto forces of Bon Iver, et al. John Diliberto…
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Go to Edgeland with Underworld’s Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams.
Hear Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams talk about Edgeland in Echoes Tonight. In the 1980s, Rick Smith and Karl Hyde got together in a band called Freur and then formed the influential electronic dance group Underworld. They’ve been musically inseparable until recently. Rick Smith scored the soundtrack for Trance and Karl Hyde released his solo…