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Echoes Top 25 for January ’09: Kaya Project Tops

Kaya Project Tops our January Top 25. Kaya Project makes it’s way to the top, no surprise since it was our Echoes CD of the Month for January.   Kaya Project’s Seb Taylor actually gets a double hit since his Hibernation album,  Some Things Never Change, also made the list.  But Kaya Project points to a…

Ambient Improvisations

This is off the Ambient list, a very cool blog called Live Ambient Scene .  Much of their materiel is generated from another site called Ambient-Art-Lounge. It’s all in German, but they’ve got a host of live performances, videos, video art and more.  Interestingly, a lot of it seems like actual “live” ambient performance with…

Echo Location: Erik Scott’s Cosmic Bass Guitar

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090128.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFrom Alice Cooper to Other Planets– Erik Scott takes a cosmic bass trip. You can hear an audio version of this blog, with music. There have been a lot of virtuoso electric bass albums released over the years. Musicians like Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke tried to become…

Echo Location: Jon Hassell Drops His Clothes

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090121.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS Jon Hassell returns with first US tour in 20 years and new CD You can hear an audio version of this blog, with music. Listen to records by Björk, Baaba Maal, Talking Heads, Ani DiFranco, Ry Cooder, or  K.D. Lang,  and you’ll hear the trumpet of Jon…

Echoes Top 25 for December

We’re a little late, but here’s the Echoes Top 25 for this past December. Perhaps surprisingly, only one seasonal title on there, Loreena McKennitt’s A Midwinter Night’s Dream, although a couple of our Sonic Seasonings performers, including Lisa Lynne & Aryeh Frankfurter and Sumner McKane ranked high. New additions include some great electronica albums by Motionfield,…

Echo Location: Kaya Project’s And So It Goes

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090107.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS Global ecstacy in a digital world from Kaya Project You can hear an audio version of this blog with music. Echo Location: Kaya Project Seb Taylor started out as a Death Metal and Thrash guitarist, but you’d never know that from his many recording personas, among them,…

Popol Vuh Video

Having just played a track from Popol Vuh’s Das Hohelied Salomos on WXPN’s Highs in the 70s: Progressive Rock show, I was thrilled to discover a new Popol Vuh video up on YouTube.  It’s a track of the “classic” PV line-up with singer Djong Yun, guitarist Daniel Filschesher, oboe player, Robert Eliscu and PV founder…

It’s Progressive Rock All Over Again

This weekend I’ll be guesting on Highs in the 70s: Progressive Rock on WXPN in Philadelphia .  It’s among a series of irregularly scheduled retro shows they run.  It’s going to be an 8-hour marathon, from 10AM til 6PM on Saturday, January 3. I’ll be in for the first half, Chuck Van Zyl from Star’s End…

New Celtic Christmas Music

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20081217.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAine Minogue, Loreena McKennitt and Enya do a  Celtic Christmas (You can hear an Audio Version of this blog with music excerpts from these albums.) Celtic music and Christmas go together as well as Handel‘s Messiah and Christmas. If you want to tap into that contemplative, fireplace, snowflakes and…