Cold Specks has sung on some of Moby’s best songs. On her new solo album, Fool’s Paradise she explores her Muslim and Somali heritage in spare, lo-fi, electronic ambiences.
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2018-Echoes Program 1812C
Tag: electronic
Program Highlights, Reviews & Commentary
Chuck Van Zyl Live Video
Chuck Van Zyl is a veteran of the Philly electronic music scene and the host of WXPN’s Star’s End who creates his spacescapes live in the moment. Watch him do it in this fascinating video.
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2018-Echoes Program 1812B
Day equals night. Winter is Melting. Spring is Blooming. Even if those last two aren’t true yet, Echoes has a soundscape to make you think so as we celebrate the Vernal Equinox.
Reviews & Commentary
Nils Frahm Live at Union Transfer 03-7-2018
Composer Nils Frahm creates a melodically layered and rhythmically driven live performance that’s a meeting of Tangerine Dream, minimalism and ambient moods at Union Transfer in Philadelphia.
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Weekend, March 17 & 18, 2018-Echoes Program 1811A
The Nightcrawlers were the reluctant leaders of a Philadelphia music scene that tapped the sounds of German space music. An album of their 1980s cassette releases has just been issued. We dig back to an interview with these lost pioneers of electronic space.
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Friday, March 16th, 2018-Echoes Program 1811E
Echoes turns emerald green for our annual St. Patrick’s exploration of all things Celtic. We’ll hear music by Enya, Moya Brennan, Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning, and more
Program Highlights
Echoes Podcast: The United States of America 50th
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The United States of America created one of the definitive psychedelic albums in the winter of 1968. In the Echoes Podcast we hear interviews with band members on its 50th anniversary.
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Thursday, March 15th, 2018-Echoes Program 1811D
We’ll hear new music by Steve Dinsdale from Radio Massacre International. It’s called Light & Dark and it’s an odyssey of electronic influences from Can to Cluster. We’ll also go Gothic, with several tracks inspired by the sounds from the Middle Ages. John Diliberto has it coming up on Echoes.
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2018-Echoes Program 1811B
Overcoats are a folktronica duo making a deep and beautifully harmonized sound on their debut album, Young. We talk to Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell from the band on Echoes.
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Monday, March 12th, 2018-Echoes Program 1811A
The Nightcrawlers were the reluctant leaders of a Philadelphia music scene that tapped the sounds of German space music. An album of their 1980s cassette releases has just been issued. We dig back to an interview with these lost pioneers of electronic space.