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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Interview Podcast
Pat Metheny Book of Angels Interview Podcast
Hear Pat Metheny talk about Tap: John Zorn’s Book of Angels in the Echoes Podcast. You never know quite where guitarist Pat Metheny is going to land. In just the last three years he’s recorded a album with his mechanical orchestra called The Orchestrion, released a solo guitar album of 60 pop cover tunes and…
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Echoes Top 25 for May
Music boxes lead the Echoes Top 25 for May in the form of Rhian Sheehan’s Stories from Elsewhere, his brilliant CD of ambient chamber music that uses music boxes as one of it’s sonic motifs. It was the Echoes CD of the Month for May. You can read a review and hear tracks from it…
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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)))…
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The Merryness of Mree – Dreampop Folk
I love this song from Mree, real name Marie Hsiao. I can hear elements of Kate Bush with Julia Holter and maybe even a touch of Enya. She has a new album coming in August, but for now, here’s a song called “Into the Well. ~John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign up for Echoes CD of the…
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Iceland to New Zealand in Echoes Top 25 for April
Ambient Chamber Music Master pieces Echoes Top 25 for April Ólafur Arnald‘s For Now I Am Winter, the Echoes CD of the Month for April, and Rhian Sheehan‘s Stories from Elsewhere top our list for April and that’s little surprise since both are masterpieces of Ambient Chamber Music. One musician comes from Iceland, the other…
Interview Podcast
Banco De Gaia Mythic Sound
Hear interview with Banco De Gaia in Echoes Podcast. Banco de Gaia fired one of the first shots of ethno-techno sounds into the previously electronic dominated rave culture of the early 1990s. Since then, he’s built a body of work by sampling the body’s of work from other musicians as well as sounds from the…
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Vangelis at 70
10 Essential Vangelis CDs Celebrate the 70th birthday of Vangelis, composer of Chariots of Fires tonight on Echoes. In 2009 I posted this list of 10 Essential Vangelis CDs when we ran our Vangelis: Then & Now segment. Tonight, Thursday, March 28, on the eve of his 70th birthday, you can hear a profile of…
Interview Podcast
Tina Malia’s Electronic Epiphany on Echoes
Hear Tina Malia’s Electronic Epiphany tonight on Echoes. When we first met Tina Malia in 2001, she was writing ethereal singer-songwriter tunes while gearing up for intoning kirtan chants with Jai Uttal. All of it was based in acoustic sounds. But on her new CD, The Lost Frontier, Malia has sculpted an album of deep…
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Watermark High Electro-Psych Video
The Watermark High is the recording persona of Paul van der Walt from Johannesburg, South Africa. We’ve been playing his melodic electronica for the last year or so on Echoes. He’s just released a cool video for the song “The Disconnect” You can check out his other music on SoundCloud. ~John Diliberto ((( echoes )))…