John Cage would’ve been 100 today. He died in 1992, but his influence continues to echo through music. Many of the musicians on Echoes still cite Cage as an inspiration. As recently as yesterday on Echoes, Franco Falsini of Sensations Fix recalled hearing Cage in the early 1970s. John Cage had this concept, “I wanted to…
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Program Highlights
Neil Armstrong, Brian Eno, Icebreaker, Apollo.
Tonight on Echoes we’ll be airing an interview with Icebreaker and BJ Cole talking about their beautiful cover of Brian’s Eno’s 1983 collaboration with Roger Eno and Daniel Lanois, Apollo-Atmospheres and Soundtracks. Our show was recorded last Friday, making it to early too comment on the passing of Neil Armstrong, the first man to set…
Reviews & Commentary
It’s An Eno World: Roxy Retro and Documentary
Some interesting news in the Eno World. They’ve just released a eluxe box set of all the Roxy Music studio CDS, The Complete Studio Recordings 1972 – 1982, which gives us a chance anew to hear how groundbreaking this group was, especially on the first two albums and Avalon. But cooler than that is the Brian…
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for June
June & July CDs of the Month Top Echoes Top 25 for June It’s a little late, but here’s the Echoes Top 25 for June. These are based on spins and it’s notable that the number one and two selections were our June and July CDs of the Month, Todd Boston’s impressive Touched by the…
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A Treasure Trove of Electronic Music Journalism
Those of you who are old enough might remember Synapse magazine. When electronic music represented the brave new frontier of sound, Synapse was the leading source documenting this movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Zappa, Eno, Fripp, Stockhausen, Devo and other artists famous enough to be referred to only by their surnames, adorned…
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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…
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New Eno Download
In the new marketing paradigm of dribbling out tracks and downloads to gin up excitement for new releases, Brian Eno has let out a non-album track from the sessions for his forthcoming album of poetry-cum-glitch electronics, Drums Between Bells. This one features Rick Holland’s words, but Eno’s vocals and it’s called “Imagine New Times.” It’s…
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Brian Eno’s Poetronica
Brian Eno has a new album coming out called Drums Between the Bells cut with poet Ric Holland. Scheduled for a July 4 release, it’s a longtime project Eno has been incubating and a little of it came out on Another Day On Earth in 2005. Echoes listeners may also recall hearing some of this…
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Pete Townshend’s Ambient Dream.
Can you imagine Pete Townsend as Brian Eno? Pete Townshend Regrets Joining The Who By Live4ever Posted on 24 Mar 2011 at 5:52am The Who guitarist Pete Townshend has said if he could have his time again he would avoid joining a band, as he believes the dynamic has stifled his creativity over the years.…
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More Brian Eno Small Craft Sessions Video
Leo Abrahams, Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins Extending the publicity effort for Brian Eno’s Small Craft on Milk Sea, they have dribbled out two more video clips from the jam sessions that resulted in the album. Contrary to common internet courtesy, they aren’t allowing us to embed them in the site so you have to link…