Every year on Echoes of the Heart, our Valentine’s Day soundscape, and I mean EVERY year, we’ve played Heidi Berry’s “Cradle.” Even though it is the ultimate love song, this year, we gave it a rest. But if you only hear one love song today, maybe this should be it. An exercise in romantic minimalism,…
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Reviews & Commentary
Hauschka’s Mystery Prepared Piano
Here’s a bit of fantasy and prepared piano from Haushka, the German pianist who was recently on Echoes with violinist Hilary Hahn. This is from the press release: While on a recent US tour with Grammy-winning American violinist Hilary Hahn, celebrated Düsseldorf-born piano composer Hauschka took a time-out to create this very special 3-part performance…
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Electronics Retro & New on Echoes Top 25
Electronic Anthologies Top the Echoes Top 25 for January I can’t recall a time when two collections headed up our monthly Top 25 list, but it happened this month with a pair of predominantly electronic anthologies. The Ambient Zone, the Echoes CD of the Month for November is in at #1. This CD of melodic…
Interview Podcast
Colin Edwin & Jon Durant’s Post-Apocalyptic Burnt Beliefs.
Hear the Echoes Podcast with Colin Edwin & Jon Durant Porcupine Tree is among the most popular of the recent generation of Progressive Rock groups. They’ve even enjoyed chart success. Colin Edwin is their highly regarded bass player. Jon Durant is much less well known, but he’ been putting out wonderful ambient-laced electric guitar albums…
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Progressive Ambience with Porcupine Tree’s Colin Edwin & Jon Durant
What do you listen to when the world doesn’t end? Hear one of the best albums of 2013 when we interview guitarist Jon Durant and Porcupine Tree bassist Colin Edwin about their CD Burnt Belief tonight on Echoes. Here’s a video from it. ~© 2012 John Diliberto ((( echoes ))) Sign up for Echoes CD…
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Piano Guys Pop-Classical YouTube Explosion
Hear the Piano Guys Echoes Interview The world of classical cross-over music is scattered with novelty acts that created a buzz and then faded away. One of the latest is a band called The Piano Guys. They are YouTube phenomenons with superstar viewing stats for their many elaborate videos. They’re music goes beyond simple instrumentation…
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Hammock’s Echoes Interview Podcast
Hammock Talk About their ShoegazeEpic Departure Songs in Echoes Interview Download the Hammock interview on iTunes. Hammock doesn’t sound like your typical band coming out of Nashville. There isn’t the sound of country twang. Instead, Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson mix twin guitars awash in distortion and reverb spread out over landscapes that can shift…
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Echoes Interviewed on Public Television.
Echoes on TV: Friday Arts, a program on Philadelphia PBS station WHYY, did a piece on Philly space music and interviewed Echoes John Diliberto & Jeff Towne as well as Chuck Van Zyl from Star’s End and electronic musician Jason Sloan. The feature ran Friday, 1/4/2012, but you can see it online here: http://video.whyy.org/video/2323750666 The…
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25 Essential Echoes CDs: The Best of 2012
25 Esssential Echoes CDs for 2012 There are always three year end lists at Echoes. The first is my personal Top Ten which embraces all the music I listen to, not must what I play on Echoes (John Diliberto’s Top Ten Albums of 2012 and John Diliberto’s Top 10 Songs for 2012). Then comes the…
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Best of Echoes 2012-Listener Poll Results.
Hear The Best of Echoes 2012 Rewind TONIGHT! See Spotify Playlist Below How much of a runaway was Dead Can Dance’s win in the Best of Echoes 2012 Poll? They had almost twice as many votes as the next artist, Hammock. But after that, it’s pretty tight. But what does the list say musically? It’s…