Those of you who are old enough might remember Synapse magazine. When electronic music represented the brave new frontier of sound, Synapse was the leading source documenting this movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Zappa, Eno, Fripp, Stockhausen, Devo and other artists famous enough to be referred to only by their surnames, adorned…
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Best Of, CD of the Month
Air Rises to Top of Echoes Top 25
Le Voyage Dans La Lune Lands in the Echoes Top 25 It was a trippy month in March in more ways than one, but none more so than Air’s Le Voyage Dans La Lune, their retro-psychedelic electronica soundtrack for the 1902 French silent film that was also the focal point of the movie Hugo. It…
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Harold Budd Tribute
The OKTAF RECORDS label is putting out what looks to be a very promising tribute album to Harold Budd with people like Biosphere, Marsen Jules, and several artists I’m less familiar with. Here’s the Press Release: With “Lost In The Humming Air – Music inspired by Harold Budd” oktaf records announces an amazing collection of…
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Revenge of the Oscars-Take That Reznor
The Oscars take their revenge this year on Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross for winning the Music (Original Score) category with their innovative and beautiful score to The Social Network. This year, no electronics, no creative and emotional use of sound, nothing that might for a moment be considered contemporary. Instead, Oscar whore (and I…
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Lola Dutronic Does Suicide (the band, not the act)
I came across this charming video of Lola Dutronic singing Suicide‘s “Keep Your Dreams.” It’s a long way from “Ghostrider” and “Frankie Teardrop.” John Diliberto ((( echoes )) .
Living Room Concerts
ECHO LOCATION-A Live CD from Echoes
ECHO LOCATION-The Latest CD of Exclusive Echoes Live Performances That ping you hear is the sound of Echo Location, our 17th volume of Echoes Living Room Concerts. Like the previous albums, it’s a remarkable selection from across the Echoes spectrum of live performances, recorded in locales that range from the Echoes Black Box to a…
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Patrick O’Hearn Transitions Echoes CD of the Month.
Echoes Icon Patrick O’Hearn returns with Transitions, The Echoes CD of the Month for October From the opening notes of “Reaching Land,” an echoing piano against a delayed pulse, it’s obvious that Transitions is a Patrick O’Hearn album. It brings up memories of CDs like Indigo and Metaphor with its dark melancholy, hushed lyricism and synth…
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A Produce is Transported R.I.P.
by John Diliberto 9/10/2011 A Produce A.K.A. Barry Craig Passes Barry Craig passed away on September 4, 2011. You may not have known him by that name, but you might be familiar with the music he produced over the last two and a half decades as A Produce. He was featured heavily on Echoes, especially…
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An Icon of Echoes Returns: Patrick O’Hearn.
Patrick O’Hearn has been a mainstay on Echoes from the beginning. In fact, his music is one of the reasons why Echoes was created. It’s been four years since his last release during which time he’s been touring and recording with John Hiatt. But he’s getting a new album ready for a late summer release…
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5 Essential Harold Budd CDs.
Five Essential Harold Budd CDs for Deep Listening of Pretty MusicSilence Required: The Best of Harold Budd, an Icon of Echoes. Harold Budd is a romantic with a classicist’s soul and an experimenter’s openness to chance. He’s never opted for the obvious ploys for the heartstrings. Instead, Budd explores the geometry of passion, the calculus…