25 ESSENTIAL ECHOES CDS FOR 2009 We’ve sorted through some 2000 CDs and downloads that came into Echoes in the last year and we’ve picked our favorite CDs for 2009. You can vote for your’s in the Best of Echoes 2009 Poll. Deadline is 9AM, December 11. Overall, the mood of 2009 on Echoes was…
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Echoes November Top 25: Robin Guthrie On Top
Robin Guthrie Heads up Echoes Top 25 for November As expected, Robin Guthrie‘s Carousel leads the Echoes Top 25 for November. It was our Echoes CD of the Month for November. If you haven’t heard it yet, it’s a definitive album from a musician who has defined post-shoegaze ambient guitar. Also on the list is…
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Grammy Awards Goof Again in New Age
WHO IS HENTA AND HOW DID SHE GET NOMINATED FOR A GRAMMY? Every year, the Recording Academy has at least one WTF moment and this year it’s again in the New Age category. Last year Jack DeJohnette inexplicably won for Peace Time, which in a post-Grammy blog I called “a generic New Age album that…
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Steve Roach: Icon of Echoes
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090617.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSteve Roach has created 20 years of Echoes Soundscapes. You can hear an audio version of this blog with Steve Roach’s music. Steve Roach calls his studio the Time Room and it’s an appropriate name for a place where music plays with concepts of time and perception. STEVE…
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Still: Echoes-Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 15
Still: Echoes, the Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 15 has arrived. Like all our CDs it’s a perfect Echoes blend of music from pure acoustic works to the extremes of electronic music, with ambient chamber music nestled next to deep space explorations. The album builds in an arc from Jesse Cook’s sweet “Rain,” with some…
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ARC with Mark Shreeve and Ian Boddy to play first US Concert.
Electronic Music Icons Play Live in Philadelphia. In case you haven’t been following all things electronic, the English synthesizer duo, ARC is making their first US appearance ever on November 14th at St. Mary’s Parish Hall on the Penn campus in Philadelphia as part of The Gatherings series. Mark Shreeve and Ian Boddy are from…
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Baaba Maal-21st Century Griot
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091104.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSEcho Location: Baaba Maal To hear an audio version of this blog with Baaba Maal’s music, go here Senegalese singer Baaba Maal emerges out of the griot tradition, African story-tellers who usually accompany themselves with the kora. Legendary griot, Mansour Seck was his childhood friend and mentor, but…
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ECHOES TOP 25 for October: Phil Keaggy & Jeff Johnson’s Frio Suite #1
Phil Keaggy & Jeff Johnson’s Frio Suite Tops Echoes Top 25 for October. October was a strange month for Echoes. We spent two weeks running down the listeners 200 CDs for 20 Years of Echoes. Great shows. Not a lot of current music, but we made up for it by playing almost exclusively new music…
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Robin Guthrie’s Carousel: Echoes Nov. CD of the Month
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091028.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS1980s Shoegaze Guitar Icon Unfolds an Instrumental Opus You can hear an Audio version of this blog with Robin Guthrie’s music. You can read a complete review of Carousel here. As a member of the legendary new wave band, the Cocteau Twins, Robin Guthrie established a guitar sound…
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Brian Eno: #1 Icon of Echoes
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-BrianEno60.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFIVE CDS FOR AN ICON OF ECHOES: BRIAN ENO Listeners recently voted for the 20 Icons of Echoes and topping the poll by a wide margin was Brian Eno. A few years ago I did a blog called 3 Degrees of Separation from Brian Eno. Actually, for most…