Brian Eno’s “Discreet Music,” released 40 years ago, is the seminal work of ambient music. A Toronto new music group arranges it for acoustic instruments.
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2015-Echoes Program 1548D
Tag: electronic
Playlists
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015-Echoes Program 1548C
We travel from slow-core pastoral rock to ambient electronic music when we hear the latest by the Lancaster based band, The Innocence Mission and the English electronic pop group, Radium 88.
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Monday, November 30th, 2015-Echoes Program 1548A
The sound of Enya is one of the most recognizable in music. She’s not very prolific, just four albums in the 21st century. Her latest is Dark Sky Island and it has all the signature Enya sounds that audiences have come to love.
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Weekend, November 28 & 29, 2015-Echoes Program 1547A
Laurie Anderson is a true icon of modern music, creating a sound unlike any other that brings together cultural observations, acute humor and ambient textures. In her new film, Heart of a Dog, she explores themes of death, doubt, culture and moms.
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2015-Echoes Program 1547C
We’ll hear from a 21st century progressive rock opus by Mark McGuire called Beyond Belief and sufi chants turned into lush tapestries by HuDost.
Best Of
The Best of Echoes 2015 Poll
Echoes listeners are now voting in the Best of Echoes 2015 Poll. They are picking their 10 favorite albums heard on Echoes in 2015 and they’ll be tabulated into the Echoes Top 25 Albums for 2015
Interview Podcast
Todd Tobias in the Echoes Podcast
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Todd Tobias creates ambient vignettes; short excursions into a mysterious sound dominated by multiple guitars and manipulated samples. He’s worked extensively with the rock band, Guided by Voices, but makes an ambient sound on his own. He talks about it on Echoes.
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Monday, November 23rd, 2015-Echoes Program 1547A
Laurie Anderson is a true icon of modern music, creating a sound unlike any other that brings together cultural observations, acute humor and ambient textures. In her new film, Heart of a Dog, she explores themes of death, doubt, culture and moms.
Playlists
Friday, November 20th, 2015-Echoes Program 1546E
On a Slow Flow Echoes John Diliberto brings us an all instrumental soundscape that will include new music by David Arkenstone and synth -guitarist Mark Dwane
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Thursday, November 19th, 2015-Echoes Program 1546D
Coming up on Echoes it’s new music by the alt-rock group Deerhunter and veteran electronic composer, George Wallace.