Tag: echoes

5 Best Ulrich Schnauss CDs (Minus-1)

https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-UlrichSchnauss.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSI usually use Five Best Albums for Icons of Echoes, but Ulrich Schnauss has only three proper albums, one remix collection and EPs. So this is The Five Best Ulrich Schnauss CDs (Minus-1). The thing is, each one is nearly perfection. Ulrich Schnauss is a German electronic artist…

Five Adventures from David Arkenstone

A Symphonic Story Teller: David Arkenstone, #18 of 20 Icons of Echoes David Arkenstone has released over forty albums in the last quarter century, although many of them aren’t recorded under his name like his Ah*Nee*Mah project with his ex-wife, Diane Arkenstone.  He’s an eclectic and prolific multi-instrumentalist and composer with classical aspirations, a rockers…

All is Neu Again- Michael Rother & Hallogallo Live

NEU! MARCHES BACK UPDATE: Hear a live performance and the Echoes Interview with Michael Rother at end. It was a mesmerizing evening of non-stop driving groove and ecstatic electric guitar when Michael Rother brought in his Hallogallo 2010 group to Philadelphia last night at International House. Michael Rother was a founding member of the German…

August CD of the Month-Matthew Schoening’s Elements

https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-MatthewSchoening.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA Definitive Album of Looping Cello from Matthew Schoening We get inundated by looping cellists at Echoes.  For some reason, players of the most soulful of orchestral instruments have a predilection for hearing their own sound refracted in looping mirrors and digital delays. For Matthew Schoening‘s Elements, it’s…

Echoes July Top 25

Carmen Rizzo’s Looking Through Leaves tops Echoes July Top 25 Judging from this month’s Top 25, summer didn’t provide much of a slowdown in good music this year on Echoes.  Topping the list of course was our July CD of the Month, Carmen Rizzo’s Looking Through Leaves, a perfect summer CD of dream pop.  Link…

Echoes Top 25 for June: Erik Wollo’s Gateway #1.

Erik Wollo’s Gateway, our June CD of the Month, leads the way for the Echoes Top 25 for June. Erik Wollo’s Gateway tops the Echoes Top 25 for June.  That’s no surprise since it was the Echoes CD of the Month.   But following right behind it is Carbon Based Lifeforms and Interloper, another great album…

5 Best from Afro Celt Sound System.

https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-Afrocelts-Icons.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS#15 of 20 Icons of Echoes: Afro Celt Sound System Afro Celt Sound System are one of the defining exponents of world fusion and their sound magic is as potent now as it was nearly 15 years ago when they released their debut album.    It’s not hard picking…

Five Essential Robert Rich CDs Plus Two.

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20100331.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe Best from Robert Rich, One of 20 Icons of Echoes. Few artists have cut a creative swath over the last thirty years as consistently and with as much innovation  as Robert Rich.  Each one of his nearly 40 albums is a meticulously crafted, creatively conceived work that…

Karaoke Koncerts Konversation @ Hypnos

There is a lively conversation going on in the Hypnos forum regarding my Blog on Karaoke electronic music concerts,  Metheny Mecanique and Karaoke Koncerts.  It’s in the topic called Robert Rich Tour Blog and starts toward the bottom of the first page.

Erik Wollo’s Gateway Echoes CD of the Month for June.

Veteran Norwegian Composer places 4th Echoes CD of the Month. Erik Wollo is an architect of ambience, a poet of electronic landscapes.  Employing “cinematic” as an adjective for this music is a tiresome cliche, and it’s been applied to everything Wollo has recorded.  Yet, on his latest CD, Gateway, There’s no denying the way his…