Tag: dream pop

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.…

Transmissions: Echoes Living Room Concerts V19

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.…

Still Corners Echoes Podcast Interview

Hear our Interview with the enchanting dream-pop group Still Corners in the Echoes Podcast. Still Corners is an English band with an American musician.  Greg Hughes writes the music and he’s from Phoenix, Arizona.  Singer Tessa Murray is from England.   It’s the sound of dreampop bands like the Cocteau Twins, psychedelia and surprisingly, horror…

Echoes Interview: Quiet on Still Corners

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…