A Look Back at CD of the Month Picks for 2014Tonight on Echoes we look back at our 12 CD of the Month selections. We’ll be playing two tracks from each spread out over the two hours of Echoes tonight. Here they all are with links to their reviews, tracks and videos. January: Hammock Oblivion…
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/audio/01PrairieSuite.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn our 25th year, the 20th Echoes Living Room Concert CD. Epic voices from the 1990s, children of progressive rock, global music explorers and a new sound of ambient pop form part of the roadmap to Ricochets, our 20th volume of live Echoes performances. Here’s some track-by-track insight into…
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Thierry David’s Electronic Hypnosishttps://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/audio/MesmerizingSpirals.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHear Thierry David’s Hypnosis Tonight on Echoes. I first heard about French synthesist Thierry David around 1993 when another electronic musician, Robert Rich, played some of David’s music for me. It turned out, David had been recording electronic music for several years already, but he…
The Echoes 25th Anniversary Poll is OPEN Help us celebrate 25 years of astounding sounds, chilled ambiences and breathtaking vocals by voting in the Echoes 25th Anniversary Poll. Vote & You’ll be entered into a drawing to win an Apple iPad. You get to pick 25 Icons of Echoes and the Top 250 Echoes Albums.…
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Tigerforest avoids lapsing into bombast and saccharine sentimentality. Instead, on The Tides of Day and Night he creates an expansive and immersive journey.
Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence is not your usual Echoes CD of the Month. It’s not ethereal and dreamy. It won’t soothe you. But along with Beck’s transcendent (and soothing) Morning Phase, it’s one of the most important albums of the year.
We Pick the Best Echoes CDs of the Year at the Halfway Point. Hear them tonight on Echoes. See A Spotify Playlist Below It seems like it’s been such a long year, and it’s only half over. That’s what usually what happens when so much good music has come out. There are albums I feel…
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/audio/TimeIsUp.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSYoed Nir creates Ambient Cello Orchestras: The Next Dream Hear it featured tonight on Echoes It’s a good time to be a cellist. Rock artists from Arcade Fire to Shawn Colvin are using them to provide just that right amount of elegant soul to their work. And the…
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-LylaFoy.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSLyla Foy Talks About Mirrors the Sky in Echoes Podcast We first met Lyla Foy in 2013 when she was recording under the guise of Wall. I was seduced by the austere, yet atmospheric songs of her EP Shoestrings, which touched a deep and resonant chord of…
Lyla Foy Brings her Haunting Songs to Echoes Live. A lot of modern singers can’t bring it live. They need backing tapes, ghost vocals, and rhythm tracks, if not more. I remember one live Echoes session where the only sound in the studio was a lone voice, barely. Everything else, vocal harmonies, bass, guitar, drums and…