Moby’s not that innocent, but Innocents leads the Echoes Top 25 for November. Haven’t voted in the Best of Echoes 2013 Poll yet? You could do worse than any 10 CDs from November’s Top 25. Of course, Moby’s CD of the Month, Innocents leads the way, and just 3 away from the top is December’s…
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Living Room Concerts
Rachel Zeffira – Chamber Pop Live on Echoes
Hear Rachel Zeffira play live tonight on Echoes. She turns her opera-trained soprano into a caressing hush; mixes circus organ with a song about suicide; and uses oboe arrangements that sound like the The Left Banke’s “Pretty Ballerina.” That’s only part of the allure in Rachel Zeffira’s debut album, The Deserters. Tonight you can hear…
CD of the Month
Rachel Zeffira – The Deserters – Echoes CD of the Month
Rachel Zeffira’s The Deserters Echoes June CD of the Month Hear Rachel Zeffira’s The Deserters tonight on Echoes. She turns her opera-trained soprano into a caressing hush; mixes circus organ with a song about suicide; and uses oboe arrangements that sound like the The Left Banke’s “Pretty Ballerina.” That’s only part of the allure in…
CD of the Month
Ludovico Einaudi’s 21st Century Classicism-Echoes CD of the Month
Ludovico Einaudi’s In A Time Lapse Echoes March CD of the Month Hear an audio version of this review with music in the Echoes Podcast. Hear In a Time Lapse featured this weekend 3/8-10/2013 on Echoes. You could pretty much stop listening to Ludovico Einaudi’s new album In a Time Lapse after the second track…
CD of the Month
Enter The Ambient Zone – Echoes January CD of the Month
The Ambient Zone – Just Music Café Volume 4 starts 2013 on a serene note Within the electronic folds and acoustic shifts of The Ambient Zone – Just Music Café Volume 4, is a sound world that’s both exploratory and serene. Just Music is the UK label whose impeccable roster ranges from deep ambient artists…
Best Of
Post-Rock Dominates Echoes Top 25 for October.
Hans Christian & Harry Manx’s You Are the Music of My Silence leads the Echoes Top 25 for October. Their dreamy Indian evocations, the Echoes CD of the Month for October, floats like a seagull above a roiling ocean of post & alt-rock bands in the Top Ten. Tycho, All India Radio, Balmorhea, Hammock, The…
Program Highlights
Reflect on WaterSky: Echoes November CD of the Month.
Hear music from Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy’s Watersky and an interview with the artists tonight, Monday 11/5 Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy are important figures in different music worlds. Johnson came to renown as a modern instrumental keyboardist with a taste for Celtic music and a long-running partnership with Irish flutist Brian Dunning. Keaggy…
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
A Summer Solstice CD of the Month: Todd Boston’s Touched by the Sun.
Todd Boston’s Touched by the Sun is Echoes June CD of the Month Hear an interview with Todd Boston Tuesday, 10/9/2012 on Echoes. In June, the month when the sun has unchallenged dominion, guitarist Todd Boston has released the perfect album for summer days. Touched by the Sun is a thematic suite centered on images…
Program Highlights
Coyote Jump-Global Native Chamber Music.
Hear Coyote Jump interviewed tonight on Echoes (8/9/2012) Coyote Jump’s debut album, Waking from the Roots, is slightly deceiving. The cover, with its neo-primitive rendering of a coyote, looks like a typical Canyon Records sleeve for a Pow-Wow or Peyote song album. However, the first notes of a Middle Eastern frame drum and buzz stick…