John Cage would’ve been 100 today. He died in 1992, but his influence continues to echo through music. Many of the musicians on Echoes still cite Cage as an inspiration. As recently as yesterday on Echoes, Franco Falsini of Sensations Fix recalled hearing Cage in the early 1970s. John Cage had this concept, “I wanted to…
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CD of the Month, Interview Podcast
Dead Can Dance-CD of the Month.
[Hear Dead Can Dance’s Anastasis featured tonight on Echoes.] Anastasis is Greek for “resurrection” and that’s what happens here with Dead Can Dance, the gothic rock band who took deep atmospheres, ritual songs and supralingua dialects to ecstatic, transcendent heights in the 1980s and 90s. There hasn’t been any new music from the band since founders…
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Summer Ends on Ambient Note: Echoes Top 25 for August.
Four recent CD of the month selections are in the Top Ten of the Echoes Top 25 for August, including our number one CD, Sebastian Plano’s The Arrhythmical Part of Hearts, an album that is sure to be in our Top 25 year end list. ECHOES TOP 25 FOR AUGUST Sebastian Plano – The Arrhythmical…
Reviews & Commentary
Pitchfork Speaks; And So It Must Be.
The People’s List Top 200 Albums from the First 15 Years of Pitchfork Pitchfork has put their imprimatur on the best albums of the last 15 years. So many curious things about this list. Only about 10 of the artists are musicians we’ve played on Echoes, which on one hand, doesn’t mean much but on the other,…
Reviews & Commentary
It’s An Eno World: Roxy Retro and Documentary
Some interesting news in the Eno World. They’ve just released a eluxe box set of all the Roxy Music studio CDS, The Complete Studio Recordings 1972 – 1982, which gives us a chance anew to hear how groundbreaking this group was, especially on the first two albums and Avalon. But cooler than that is the Brian…
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Echoes Top 25 for July: Marconi Calling.
ECHOES TOP 25 FOR JULY MARCONI UNION TRANSMITS TO THE TOP Marconi Union – Different Colours (Just Music) Icebreaker – Apollo (Cantaloupe) Todd Boston – Touched by the Sun (Gita Records) Abalye Cissoko and Volker Goetze – Amanke Dionti (Motema) Raygun Ballet – World That Wasn’t (Raygun Ballet) Wall Matthews – The Dreaming Light (Wall Matthews)…
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Echoes Top 25 for June
June & July CDs of the Month Top Echoes Top 25 for June It’s a little late, but here’s the Echoes Top 25 for June. These are based on spins and it’s notable that the number one and two selections were our June and July CDs of the Month, Todd Boston’s impressive Touched by the…
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The Best of Echoes 2012….. So Far.
25 Essential CDs to take into the second half of the year. [Click on the artist link and it will take you to a podcast interview. Click on the album links and you’ll go to either a review with tracks or a link to purchase.] According to some interpretations of the Mayan calendar, the world…
CD of the Month
Ambient Noir Moods from Marconi Union.
THE ECHOES CD OF THE MONTH FOR JULY Marconi Union’s Different Colours Hear Marconi Union interviewed tonight 8/29/2012 on Echoes. Six years years ago, Marconi Union entranced us with their second album, Distance. It was music that emerged from a smoke shrouded city, both luxurious in its atmospheres and dangerous in its menace. Heroic melodies…
Reviews & Commentary
Philadelphia Concerts Ahead
This is mostly for Philly area listeners for some Echoes related concerts coming up. RECOMMENDED THIS WEEK Van Der Graaf Generator. If you’re a progressive rock fan, you’ll be there. Check out A Summer of Progressive Rock GET YOUR TICKETS SIGUR ROS Coming July 29 & 30 *******DEAD CAN DANCE is Coming August 26. ********…