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Echo Location: Saul Stokes

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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20081112.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn another time, say the 1950s or 60s, Saul Stokes might have been considered an experimental composer, constructing his own instruments, creating random events, bypassing conventional musical form. But rarely has an experimental composer made music as haunting and soulful as that heard on his new CD, Villa…

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Echoes 2008 Listener Poll Opens: Seeking the Echoes Core

America went to the Polls in record numbers to vote for the president this year. Isn’t the Echoes 2008 Listener Poll just as important? Probably not, but I bet you spend more time listening to the sounds of musicians than politicians. So why not vote on them as well. There aren’t any smear campaigns, dirty…

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Echo Location: Vic Hennegan, Tangerine Dream’s Space Child

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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20081105.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSArtists like Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze  did have musical children and among them is a musician named Vic Hennegan. He makes a music born of technology and reveling in spacious rhythms and layered timbres. (You can hear an audio version of this blog, with music.) Vic Hennegan is…

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Echoes Top 25 for October: Ambient continues to roll

This month’s Echoes Top 25 continues the roll of ambient music, especially in the Top 10.   Sumner McKane‘s What A Great Place to Be is number one by dint of being the Echoes CD of the Month for October, but even without that honor and extra airplay it entails, it was already #4 the previous…

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Echo Location: Bombay Dub Orchestra

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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20081029.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA journey into exotica with Bombay Dub Orchestra You can hear an audio version of this blog with music. East-west fusions have been going on since at least the early 1960s when Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar sat down with musicians like jazz saxophonist Bud Shank and classical violinist…

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The Real Story behind Vangelis

From the Vangelis list, I came across an alternative history of the Greek composer who scored Chariots of Fire and Bladerunner.  It’s in the Uncyclopedia.   I’m probably the last person on the planet to discover this take-off site on Wikipedia.  The Vangelis entry scores a direct hit on the enigmatic composer who is praised as…

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Echo Location: Suzanne Teng & Mystic Journey

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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20081015.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSuzanne Teng & Mystic Journey play live on Echoes,  Weds, 10/15/08 You can hear an Audio Version of this blog, with music. If you were among the 15 million or so viewers who watched the finale of Survivor: China, you may have caught Suzanne Teng fronting the on-camera…

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Brian Eno’s iPhone Music

Ever an artist on the bleeding edge, Brian Eno, along with collaborator Peter Chilvers has created a music making program for the iPhone.  It’s called Bloom. Bloom runs in two different modes: Listen, which plays an interactive generative composition, and Create, in which you create each note that plays in real time. Each tap of…

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