It’s a dream pop world out there lately and we just float thru it. Tonight on Echoes I’ve got a band called Still Corners. Their first album was a stripped down, 60’s psych-pop style release redolent of “96 Tears” but on their 2013 release, Strange Pleasures, they expand their instrumental sonics and lyric concerns. Still…
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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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Ethereal Girl: Mree in Echoes Podcast.
Hear Mree interviewed in the Echoes Podcast. Mree isn’t your typical singer song-writer. Even though she started out playing acoustic guitar in her bedroom and recording alt-rock songs on YouTube, she’s evolved her sound into something closer to dream pop than folk, embracing sounds from the New Age, Alt-Rock and ambient into a music that…
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Mree’s Magical Sound on Echoes.
Hear Mree interviewed on Echoes tonight. Mree isn’t your typical singer song-writer. Even though she started out playing acoustic guitar in her bedroom and recording alt-rock songs on YouTube, she’s evolved her sound into something closer to dream pop than folk, embracing sounds from the New Age, Alt-Rock and ambient into a music that is…
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Pure Bathing Culture Live on Echoes
Portland’s Pure Bathing Culture Plays Live on Echoes Tonight. Tonight on Echoes, it’s dream pop from Portland when we hear Pure Bathing Culture playing live. The band is fronted by singer and keyboardist Sarah Versprille and guitarist Daniel Hindman. On their album, Moon Tides they merge 60s girl group harmonies with 80s electro-pop in a…
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The Cabaret of Una on Echoes.
Una is interviewed tonight on Echoes. Trip-Hop music of the 1990s brought several worlds together. In groups like Portishead, Massive Attack and Morcheeba, you could hear elements of hip-hop, electronic music, lounge moods and torch song singing. Una has taken those sounds in a different direction over the last six years, adding jazz, film scores…
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New Agnes Obel Video-The Curse
Danish singer Agnes Obel finally has a new album coming in October. Here’s a beautiful video and song that shows she’s continuing the beauty of her debut, Philharmonics. Her new album is Aventine and here’s a song from it, “The Curse.” John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign up for Echoes CD of the Month Club. With the…
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Hooverphonic Interviewed on Echoes 8/20
Hear Hooverphonic Interviewed on Echoes tonight. 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 out…
Living Room Concerts
Living Room Concert: HEM 8/21
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 critically acclaimed album, Departure and Farewell. Below you can see the music video “Seven Angels” from their latest album: John Diliberto (((echoes))) Find your local Echoes…
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Echoes Podcast: Rachel Zeffira’s Dissembling & Suicides
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…