ECHO LOCATION-The Latest CD of Exclusive Echoes Live Performances That ping you hear is the sound of Echo Location, our 17th volume of Echoes Living Room Concerts. Like the previous albums, it’s a remarkable selection from across the Echoes spectrum of live performances, recorded in locales that range from the Echoes Black Box to a…
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Time For Three: A Different Kind of String Trio
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20100414.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS We had the pleasure of hosting Time for Three, the string trio of violinists Zach De Pue and Nick Kendall and double-bassist Ranaan Meyer, in the Echoes Living Room a while back. They gave a performance of almost frightening virtuosity and intuitive interplay, tapping into their more…
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Echo Location: Mono
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090603.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS Japanese post-rockers Mono, attain symphonic dimensions. You can hear an audio version of this blog with Mono’s music. Most composers would take offense if the orchestra playing their music was wearing ear plugs. That was the case with the Wordless Music Orchestra when they performed with the…
CD of the Month
Echo Location: Leo Abrahams May CD of the Month
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090429.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA Brian Eno accomplice looks to the pastoral past on The Grape and the Grain. You can hear an audio version of this blog with Leo Abrahams’ music here. Leo Abrahams is one of those musicians, you may not know, but you have heard him. He’s performed with…
Interview Podcast
Echo Location Podcast-Michael Whelan & Atomic Skunk
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090422.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPodcast of Echo Location with Michael Whelan and Atomic Skunk Listen Here. I usually create blogs out of Echo Location features, but this week I reversed direction and created an Echo Location out of the blog posting: Michael Whalen & Atomic Skunk: Free Music that Doesn’t Stink Follow link…
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Echo Location: Kaya Project’s And So It Goes
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090107.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS Global ecstacy in a digital world from Kaya Project You can hear an audio version of this blog with music. Echo Location: Kaya Project Seb Taylor started out as a Death Metal and Thrash guitarist, but you’d never know that from his many recording personas, among them,…
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Echo Location: A Synthesist turns Singer-Dean De Benedictis
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20081203.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSElectronic explorer Dean De Benedictis finds Ambient music in his voice (You can hear an audio version of this blog, with music.) If you’re a fan of 80s and 90s TV crime dramas, you might recognize the theme from Matlock, the crime series starring Andy Griffith. It’s written…
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Echo Location: Saul Stokes
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20081112.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn another time, say the 1950s or 60s, Saul Stokes might have been considered an experimental composer, constructing his own instruments, creating random events, bypassing conventional musical form. But rarely has an experimental composer made music as haunting and soulful as that heard on his new CD, Villa…
Program Highlights
Echo Location: Vic Hennegan, Tangerine Dream’s Space Child
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20081105.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSArtists like Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze did have musical children and among them is a musician named Vic Hennegan. He makes a music born of technology and reveling in spacious rhythms and layered timbres. (You can hear an audio version of this blog, with music.) Vic Hennegan is…
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Echo Location: Bombay Dub Orchestra
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20081029.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA journey into exotica with Bombay Dub Orchestra You can hear an audio version of this blog with music. East-west fusions have been going on since at least the early 1960s when Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar sat down with musicians like jazz saxophonist Bud Shank and classical violinist…