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…
Tag: dream pop
Interview Podcast
Hooverphonic on Echoes Podcast
Hear Hooverphonic Interviewed in the Echoes Podcast. Hooverphonic is a band that’s been at the borders of popularity for the last 15 years or so. They’ve actually had several hits in Europe and you might’ve heard their music in movies like Stealing Beauty and on TV ads for Volkswagen and Motorola. This Belgian group started…
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Hooverphonic on Echoes
Tonight on Echoes we talk to Hooverphonic, the Belgian band that traffics in haunting dream-pop, grooving trip-hop and John Barry-inspired songs that sound like they stepped right out of a James Bond film circa 1965. They have a new CD out called The Night Before. It’s been out in Europe for two years but is…
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…
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Still Corners & Laki Mera on Echoes – Thurs, May 30th
Coming up on Echoes it’s dream pop from England. We’ll hear Laki Mera and their new CD, Turn All Memory to White Noise. Then it’s Still Corners. They’re a duo from London and then have an intoxicating new CD called Strange Pleasures. It’s all on the strange pleasures of Echoes tonight. ~John Diliberto (((echoes)))…
Living Room Concerts
HEM – Monday, May 27th
HEM brings their dream-folk music into the Echoes living room, playing their sensitive and introspective songs live, and telling the tales behind them. They play music from their latest album, Departure and Farewell. Below you can see the music video “Seven Angels” from their latest album: ~John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign up for Echoes CD of…
Interview Podcast
Hem Interview-Echoes Podcast.
Hear an interview with Hem in the Echoes Podcast. In the alternative rock, irony drenched landscape of Brooklyn, the band called Hem stands out for their sincere lyrics and nearly pure acoustic sound. They’ve been recording since 2001 and despite a litany of travails that might give Job pause, they’ve persevered, flourished and been reborn…
Interview Podcast
Tina Malia’s Electronic Epiphany on Echoes
Hear Tina Malia’s Electronic Epiphany tonight on Echoes. When we first met Tina Malia in 2001, she was writing ethereal singer-songwriter tunes while gearing up for intoning kirtan chants with Jai Uttal. All of it was based in acoustic sounds. But on her new CD, The Lost Frontier, Malia has sculpted an album of deep…
Interview Podcast
The United States of America-Joseph Byrd-Podcast
Hear an interview with Joseph Byrd of The United States of America in Echoes Podcast. We take electronic music for granted now, but back in 1968 it was a pretty rare and novel thing. There were bands like Lothar and the Hand People, 50 Foot Hose and Silver Apples, but the group who took electronics…
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The Soft-Focus Glow of Azure Ray.
Hear Azure Ray talk about their music on Echoes Tuesday October 23. The Dream Pop duo know as Azure Ray came into the Echoes Living Room yesterday and put on a breathless and enchanting performance playing music from their new CD, As Above So Below as well as some older songs including “November.” Their’s is…