Start 2014 Off Right with a Reprise Broadcast of The Best of Echoes 2013 Listener Poll Results tonight 01/01/2014 What do you get when you take a contemporary avant-garde composer, psychedelic folkies, Indian sitarists and Japanese electronic musicians. Apparently you get the soundscape of Echoes or at least the music listeners thought was the best…
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The Echoes Discovery of 2013: Mree
Hear Mree interviewed on Echoes tonight. Technically, Mree isn’t a new artist. She released her debut album, Glow, in 2011 when she was all of 17 years old. But it’s her sophomore release, Winterwell, that revealed an artist of intoxicating depth and studio virtuosity. Mree is not your typical singer song-writer. Even though she started…
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Best of Echoes 2013 Listener Poll
What do you get when you take a contemporary avant-garde composer, psychedelic folkies, Indian sitarists and Japanese electronic musicians. Apparently you get the soundscape of Echoes or at least the music listeners thought was the best aspect of that soundscape. Listeners have voted and today we’ll hear the results of the Best of Echoes 2013.…
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An Echoes Celtic Sonic Seasonings
Christmas begins today with An Echoes Celtic Sonic Seasonings with Moya Brennan and Jeff Johnson, Brian Dunning and Wendy Goodwin I don’t know how Celtic music came to signify winter, but slow aires and Celtic harps seem to exemplify a quieter and more atmospheric side of the Winter season. We’ve dipped into that sound on…
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25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2013
Some years are better than others and 2013 was much better than most. Right now, you can Vote in the Best of Echoes 2013 Listener Poll. But, this list is different. This is compiled by the brain trust of Echoes. These are the CDs we played on the show in 2013 that we thought represented…
CD of the Month
12 Echoes CDs of the Month Tonight
WE LOOK BACK AT ECHOES CD OF THE MONTH PICKS FROM 2013 Every month on Echoes we pick out the CD of the Month. It’s the album we think best represents the sound of Echoes and simply, the best album in that sound. This year has been a great one for CD of the Month …
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Pure Bathing Culture Interview on Echoes.
Portland’s Pure Bathing Culture Talks Art-Rock, Jazz and Dream-pop on Echoes Tonight. Whatever you call them, don’t call them Dream Pop. But if you do, you’ll hear a sound to which most dream pop bands could aspire with Pure Bathing Culture. They are a duo of singer and keyboardist Sarah Versprille and guitarist Daniel Hindman who…
Living Room Concerts
Still Corners Live on Echoes Tonight.
Tonight on Echoes, Still Corners Live. Still Corners is a critically-acclaimed Dream-pop band from England. They visit Echoes with their full ensemble to unfold the atmospheric delights of their latest CD, Strange Pleasure. A track from this performance is on our latest CD, Transmissions: The Echoes Living Room Concerts V19. Find your local Echoes station…
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Cover Me Over, the Echoes Cover Show.
You can’t pull back the sheets of a new album these days without finding someone covering tunes by other people. There’s a whole cottage industry of people just covering Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” and full album covers are almost the norm. Today we go undercover to hear music by artists you know performed by other artists.…
Living Room Concerts
Transmissions: Echoes Living Room Concerts V19
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/audio/NearLight.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSINCOMING MESSAGE: TRANSMISSIONS: THE ECHOES LIVING ROOM CONCERTS VOLUME 19 TRANSMISSIONS is a collection of live Echoes performances that shows Echoes moving into the future in our 25th year. It’s a merging of electronic, new acoustic, dream pop and ambient chamber music. This is the center of Echoes.…