There’s some great CDs in the Echoes Top 25 for July. Leading the way is Yoed Nir’s CD of the Month, The Next Dream. He’s one of two cello albums to make the list. The other is first timer Maya Beiser with her album of cello covers, Uncovered.
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Interview: William Orbit. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-WilliamOrbit2014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS Electronic provocateur William Orbit has crafted electronic hits for Madonna (Ray of Light) and Britney Spears (“Alien“) but on his own he creates sometimes quirky, often profound, electronic songs. He’s just released the fifth volume of his Strange Cargo series and a symphonic work. They’re…
Top 25 for June 2014. Guitars Pluck at the Top of the Echoes Top 25 for June Three guitarists release one of their strongest albums this past month. Topping the list is Carl Weingarten’s CD of the Month For June, Life Under Stars, a beautiful pastoral tinged Americana travelogue. John Luttrell is the newest of…
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Interview: Brian Reitzell. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-BrianReitzell.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHear Brian Reitzell talk about Auto Music, Hannibal, Takemitsu and driving in Echoes Podcast. Brian Reitzell is the music supervisor for films by director Sofia Coppola like Lost in Translation and The Bling Ring, and he composes original music for TV shows like Boss and…
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-LylaFoy.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSLyla Foy Talks About Mirrors the Sky in Echoes Podcast We first met Lyla Foy in 2013 when she was recording under the guise of Wall. I was seduced by the austere, yet atmospheric songs of her EP Shoestrings, which touched a deep and resonant chord of…
Austra has been one of my favorite electronica bands of the last few years, fronted by singer Katie Stelmanis with a powerful voice that goes against the trend of fragile, ethereal-girl pop singers. They have a new EP called Habitat with the title track as their new video. It’s both bittersweet and creepy.
The Echoes Top 25 for May continues a trend towards chilled out vocal music but the top three slots are held by three CD of the Month picks, one vocal, two instrumental. Lyla Foy is a relatively new artist who used to record as Wall. Her Mirrors the Sky album, the first under her own…
Lyla Foy Brings her Haunting Songs to Echoes Live. A lot of modern singers can’t bring it live. They need backing tapes, ghost vocals, and rhythm tracks, if not more. I remember one live Echoes session where the only sound in the studio was a lone voice, barely. Everything else, vocal harmonies, bass, guitar, drums and…
The Welsh Band 9Bach has a new CD on Realworld Records. It’s been a while since we’ve featured a Welsh band on Echoes. The last one I recall was Ceredwen, a beautifully produced project that released two albums in the late 1990s on the Real Music label. Ceredwen featured the compositions of Andrew Fryer with…
Hear an Interview with Darkside Tonight on Echoes. This past October I got to see the band Darkside at the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit. They played before an impressively large audience in the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, considering they only had one album out, Psychic. They’re a band that favors shadows, standing in twin cones…