Balmorhea is a band from Austin exploring an ambient chamber music sound with a western twang. In celebration of our new album, Victoria Place, you can hear their recent entire concert here.
Living Room Concerts
Balmorhea performing Live On Echoes
Tag: classical
Playlists
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018-Echoes Program 1827B
Coming up on echoes, pianist Chad Lawson goes purely ambient. Lawson has released some great ambient chamber albums over the last few years with interpretations of Chopin and others.
Interview Podcast
Podcast Special: Glenn Branca R.I.P.
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Composer Glenn Branca died on May 13. His “guitar armies” created a wall of distorted overtone layers with multiple guitars. We go back to an early interview in Echoes Podcast.
Reviews & Commentary
Art Zoyd Violinist-Composer Gérard Hourbette R.I.P.
Gérard Hourbette, director and composer of the avant-garde progressive rock group, Art Zoyd has left the planet at the age of 64. He was an exploratory musician who left a vast body of work.
Playlists
Friday, April 20th, 2018-Echoes Program 1816E
On a Slow Flow Echoes new chamber music by Richard Dillon from his album, Terra Incognito: The Space Between and composer Rachel Grimes, formerly of the group, Rachel’s.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Mantra & Stockhausen’s Klang
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We interview the director and Kirtan chanters in the documentary Mantra: Sounds into Silence and explore Karlheinz Stockhausen and his Klang: the 24 Hours of the Day in Echoes Podcast.
Playlists
Thursday, April 5th, 2018-Echoes Program 1814D
It’s the sound of Klang on Echoes. Klang was composer Karlheinz Stockhausen’s last work. The full title is KLANG: The 24 Hours of the Day. We talk to performers of this epic on Echoes.
Reviews & Commentary
Nils Frahm Live at Union Transfer 03-7-2018
Composer Nils Frahm creates a melodically layered and rhythmically driven live performance that’s a meeting of Tangerine Dream, minimalism and ambient moods at Union Transfer in Philadelphia.
Playlists
Weekend, February 3 & 4, 2018-Echoes Program 1805A
We go classical for the next Echoes CD of the month if your idea of classical is Steve Reich and Philip Glass amped up. That’s the sound of English composer Poppy Ackroyd’s energized neo-classical album, Resolve.
Playlists
Monday, January 29th, 2018-Echoes Program 1805A
We go classical for the next Echoes CD of the month if your idea of classical is Steve Reich and Philip Glass amped up. That’s the sound of English composer Poppy Ackroyd’s energized neo-classical album, Resolve.