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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090513.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSMark Dwane travels to Other Worlds of guitar synthesis You can hear an audio version of this blog with Mark’s music here. Mark Dwane is a musician who has Progressive Rock in his DNA. Born in 1954, he was just the right age to be seduced by 70s…
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090506.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFormer Prince divas Wendy & Lisa score the soundtrack for Heroes You can hear an audio version of this blog with music here. The theme to the TV series, Heroes might be the shortest title music on television right now. It was created by Lisa Coleman and Wendy…
This months Echoes Top 25 sees the return of two longtime Echoes favorites, William Orbit and Mark Dwane. There’s also a few surprises. Who would’ve thought that two former Prince vamps, guitarists for Spinal Tap and a Hot Tuna would be in the Echoes May Top 25. But that’s the case with Wendy & Lisa’s…
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090429.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA Brian Eno accomplice looks to the pastoral past on The Grape and the Grain. You can hear an audio version of this blog with Leo Abrahams’ music here. Leo Abrahams is one of those musicians, you may not know, but you have heard him. He’s performed with…
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090422.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPodcast of Echo Location with Michael Whelan and Atomic Skunk Listen Here. I usually create blogs out of Echo Location features, but this week I reversed direction and created an Echo Location out of the blog posting: Michael Whalen & Atomic Skunk: Free Music that Doesn’t Stink Follow link…
Paul Williams changed my life. There are a few things I can look back on as life-altering: Jimi Hendrix, my wife, my kids and Paul Williams. Most people probably don’t know about Paul. He was one of the first serious rock journalists. He founded Crawdaddy! Magazine in 1966, right around the corner from me now…
A synthesizer pioneer reflects on his work with Peter Gabriel, Wendy Carlos and his own Synergy albums. Larry Fast was an early exponent of purely electronic and melodic space music. His album, Realizations for Rock Orchestra is still a favorite among electronic music fans. He worked with Peter Gabriel extensively in the 1970s and…
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090415.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe best progressive band of the 2000s? If you’re looking for Progressive Rock that isn’t trapped in the 1970s, The Mandrake Project has some forward thinking music for you. You can hear an audio version of this blog with music from The Mandrake Project, here. With influences that…
Free electronic music from two artisans of ambience, Michael Whalen and Atomic Skunk.
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090408.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSpinal Tap guitarist creates bluegrass jams in global space. (You can hear an audio version of this blog with music from The Beyman Bros.) When you see the back CD cover of an album by The Beyman Bros, with Christopher Guest sitting on a porch, holding a mandolin,…