Poppy Ackroyd’s album, Resolve was an Echoes CD of the Month two years ago. We catch up with Poppy, who talks about an approach to classical composition informed by punk rock and Radiohead.
Coming Up
Monday, Apr 6, 2020 – Poppy Ackroyd Interview
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Coming Up
Thursday, Apr 2, 2020 – Slow Flow Echoes
We’ll hear new music from Roger Eno and Brian Eno off the brothers’ new album, Mixing Colours. We’ll also hear new music by ambient guitarist Jeff Pearce that dates back 20 years.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Apr 1, 2020 – Deep Mountain’s Bapak Dudal
Deep Mountain was the recording projected of Bapak Dudal, unheralded pioneer of ambient world fusion in the 1990s. As part of Echoes 30th Anniversary, we look back at this lost icon.
Reviews & Commentary
Pink Floyd’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn 50th – Echoes
On August 5th, 1967, Pink Floyd announced itself to the world with The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. And rock music was never the same again as Pink Floyd became part of the generation that changed music forever.
Playlists
Wednesday January 18th, 2017-Echoes Program 1703C
In 1990 Enigma enchanted the world with their album, MCMXC A.D. (1990) mixing gothic chants and electronic moods. Now they return with their first album in eight years, The Fall of a Rebel Angel. Founder Michael Cretu talks about it on Echoes.
Interview Podcast, Program Highlights
Skye-Ross in Echoes Podcast
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Skye Edwards and Ross Godfrey have evolved from Morcheeba to create a new self titled duo. They talk about their debut album, old drugs and new found domesticity in the Echoes Podcast
Interview Podcast
Nicholas Gunn in Echoes Podcast
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Nicholas Gunn has put down his flute in a shift towards a more chilled electronic sound. . Hear him talk about it in the Echoes Podcast.
Playlists
Thursday, October 6, 2016
The Boxer Rebellionhave a new album called Ocean by Ocean and w’ll hear new music by Ethno-Techno pioneer Banco De Gaia’s Ninth of 9 Hearts.
CD of the Month
Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence Echoes CD of the Month
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.
CD of the Month
Erik Wøllo’s Timelines
It’s a cliché, I know, but as soon as an Erik Wøllo album starts, you know you are on a journey. It’s like the moments before take-off, only Wøllo’s ascent doesn’t throw you back in your seat with G-Force thrust. It’s a gentle rise into euphoric space. Timelines is a beautifully sculpted example of…