You’ve heard all the carols in all their variations. But tonight we’re going to celebrate a different part of the season, one that’s rooted in the stars. It’s an Echoes Winter Solstice.
Playlists
Monday, December 21st, 2015-Echoes Program 1551A
Tag: Cello
Best Of, Program Highlights
Best of Echoes 2015 Listener Poll.
Echoes listeners have voted for their favorite albums of 2015. See the results in The Best of Echoes 2015 Listener Poll
Best Of
John Diliberto’s Top 25 Albums for 2015
Echoes host John Diliberto has picked his Top 25 albums of 2015. They range from dream pop to sequencer dervishes to ambient chamber music to fusion and beyond.
Playlists
Tuesday, December 1st, 2015-Echoes Program 1548B
Jamie Sieber was at the leading edge of a new generation of cellists taking the most soulful of symphonic strings in new directions, looping her cello and using electric guitar-style effects. She comes in to create her looping cello chamber works live.
Best Of
The Best of Echoes 2015 Poll
Echoes listeners are now voting in the Best of Echoes 2015 Poll. They are picking their 10 favorite albums heard on Echoes in 2015 and they’ll be tabulated into the Echoes Top 25 Albums for 2015
Reviews & Commentary
Brian Eno’s Discreet Music Reborn by Contact.
Brian Eno’s Discreet Music is the first bud in the growing expanse of ambient music. And now, the Toronto ensemble, Contact, has taken this electronic work and transformed it into a mesmerizing 60 minute acoustic rendering.
Playlists
Tuesday, September 1, 2015-Echoes Program 1535B
Árstíðir is a band out of Iceland with an organic, acoustic sound that has roots in the harmonies of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
CD of the Month, Program Highlights
Hans Christian Nanda Devi September CD of the Month
Hans Christian is a classical cellist turned global music explorer. As a founding member of the Hind- Chant Fusion group Rasa and on his own solo albums he creates a global orchestra of the imagination playing instruments from India, Swedish Nyckleharpe, cello, lap steel, percussion and more.
Playlists
Wednesday, August 19th, 2015-Echoes Program 1533C
The ambient chamber music ensemble Bing & Ruth comes in to play their haunting, slow flowing ambient classical jazz live.
Interview Podcast
Chronotope Project in Echoes Podcast
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Chronotope Project is the name used by electronic musician and cellist Jeffrey Ericson Allen to deply his free-floating atmospheric compositions that merge concepts of Buddhism, astrophysics and ambient music. he talks about his new album, Dawn Treader.