Tonight on Echoes, Austra & Dead Beat Project. New music from Austra, the Canadian band fronted by the powerful voice of Katie Stelmanis, from their new album Olympia, I love her voice. So many singers we love on Echoes barely project beyond the microphone, but I always feel like you could hear Katie Stelmanis shouting…
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Living Room Concerts
Living Room Concert: Don Ross
Canadian finger-style guitarist Don Ross comes into Echoes to play his complex compositions for guitar which includes two-handed tapping. Here’s Don Ross in somebody else’s Living Room playing “Cup of Pop” from his latest album, Upright & Locked Position. John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign up for Echoes CD of the Month Club. CD of the…
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Interview: Seti the First
Kevin Murphy and Thomas Haugh are Irish musicians but their music isn’t traditional. Inspired by The Penguin Café Orchestra they make their own quirky ambient chamber music, including instruments from the Markophone Colony. Highlights Thomas Haugh: Marxophones, Ukelins, these things were made as kind of gizmos, sold door to door and in toy shops, billed…
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Interview: Yes Is The Answer editors Marc Weingarten and Tyson Cornell
A Pure Hour of Progressive Rock and More tonight on Echoes. Marc Weingarten and Tyson Cornell are Progressive Rock fans and they’ve edited a collection of personal essays about the genre called Yes is the Answer and Other Prog Rock Tales. Contributors such as novelist Rick Moody and music critic Jim DeRogatis write about their…
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American Landscapes: An Echoes July 4th Soundscape
It’s a different kind of Americana with American Landscapes as we celebrate the 4th of July with songs inspired by the vistas of the United States, from Maine to Hawaii. We’ll create fireworks for your ears as well as your eyes with Ambient Americana from Steve Roach and Sumner McKane, environmental sounds from Paul Winter…
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New Music Richard Bone & Bill Frisell
It’s music from Richard Bone. The electronic musician has a new CD called Images from a Parallel World. And guitarist Bill Frisell goes to Big Sur for his new album Big Sur. Below, watch Bill Frisell’s live performance of “”The Days of Wine and Roses” from his 2005 album East/West. John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign up…
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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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An Echoes Summer Solstice
It’s the longest day of the year and Echoes has the music to welcome in summer. We trip the sunlight fantastic on an Echoes Summer Solstice Soundscape. We’ll hear music with the sun in it’s eyes and flowers in it’s hair. It’s not the summer of love, but you might think so with an Echoes…
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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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Ludovico Einaudi Live on Echoes
Acclaimed Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi comes to Echoes with his electro-acoustic ensemble and plays the sometimes haunting, sometimes exuberant themes of his latest album, In A Time Lapse. Below, watch Ludovico Einaudi’s live performance of “Divenire” from his 2008 CD, Divenire. Read a review of Ludovico Einaudi’s In A Time Lapse, Echoes March CD of…