Hear the Echoes Podcast of our interview with Rachel Zeffira. Rachel Zeffira is a former operatic soprano who now vocalizes in caressing whispers. She makes an enchanting and haunting dream pop, telling tales of suicide and lost love, placing it all in a chamber music setting. She doesn’t like to reveal the meanings of the…
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Echoes Top 25 for July 2013.
Queens of the Stone Age, reinvented, Leads Echoes Top 25 … Like Clockwork by Queens of the Stone Age made Number One on the Billboard Top 200, but Olivier Libaux‘s Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age was Number One on Echoes. Libaux’s UNQOTSA , in which he creates intimate, melancholic versions of tunes from this…
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Interview: Rachel Zeffira
Hear an interview with Rachel Zeffira tonight on Echoes Rachel Zeffira is a former operatic soprano who now vocalizes in caressing whispers. She makes an enchanting and haunting dream pop, telling tales of suicide and lost love, placing it all in a chamber music setting. She doesn’t like to reveal the meanings of the songs…
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Living Room Concert: Still Corners
Tonight on Echoes, Still Corners Live. Still Corners is a critically-acclaimed Dream-pop band from England. They visit Echoes with their full band to unfold the atmospheric delights of their latest CD, Strange Pleasure. Find your local Echoes station here. Below, watch Still Corners’ “Strange Pleasure” from their 2013 CD, Strange Pleasure. John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign…
Living Room Concerts
Rachel Zeffira – Chamber Pop Live on Echoes
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…
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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…
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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…