Lyla Foy’s Mirrors the Sky Echoes April CD of the Month Hear it tonight on Echoes. 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 melancholy and…
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Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for March 2014
Progressive guitars, Serene Songs and Hang Drums Lead Echoes Top 25 for March It’s no surprise that our March CD of the Month, Mark McGuire’s Along the Way, leads the Echoes Top 25. Fans of Popol Vuh, Ashra and Mike Oldfield should be in prog-epic heaven with this album. Hear Mark McGuire interviewed on Monday…
Program Highlights
Tiny Time Pills & a Poke in the Ribs
Today on Echoes it’s new music from Elbow & The Capsules Elbow is the English band that takes 80s new wave stylings and a bit of Peter Gabriel narrative drama and updates them into their own, often moody sound. Their new album is The Take Off and Landing of Everything. The Capsules are a…
Program Highlights
Tycho & Davidge
New Music from Tycho & Davidge tonight on Echoes It was great to hear Scott Hansen, who is effectively Tycho, on NPR’s Weekend Sunday Edition. Of course, we had him on Echoes for a great live performance and an interview back in 2012. You can hear a track from his set on our CD Transmissions:…
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Guitar Splendor in Echoes Top 25
Erik Wøllo and Mark McGuire bring guitars back to Echoes Top 25 Erik Wøllo’s February CD of the Month, Timelines, leads Echoes Top 25. It’s a brilliant recording of layered guitar dreamscapes. Following close behind is our soon-to-be March CD of the Month, Mark McGuire’s Progressive Rock epic, Along the Way. You’ll be hearing more about…
Living Room Concerts
Priscilla Ahn Live on Echoes.
Singer-songwriter Priscilla Ahn Plays Live on Echoes Tonight. Hear another child of Echoes tonight when Priscilla Ahn plays live. The singer-songwriter grew up in Central Pennsylvania where she listened to Echoes on WITF in Harrisburg and WXPN in Philadelphia. She’s in LA now where she has been crafting introspective personal songs like “Dream” from her…
CD of the Month
Erik Wøllo’s Timelines
It’s a cliché, I know, but as soon as an Erik Wøllo album starts, you know you are on a journey. It’s like the moments before take-off, only Wøllo’s ascent doesn’t throw you back in your seat with G-Force thrust. It’s a gentle rise into euphoric space. Timelines is a beautifully sculpted example of…
Interview Podcast
Bombay Dub Orchestra in Echoes Podcast
Hear Bombay Dub Orchestra tell Tales from the Grand Bazaar on ECHOES PODCAST Go directly here for BDO Podcast I first heard of Garry Hughes back in the 1980s when he was making space music albums like Ancient Evenings and Sacred Cities for the Audion label. He gone on to be a top producer and…
Interview Podcast
Enter A State of Ameritronica with Euphoria Tonight on Echoes
Hear Euphoria Interviewed Tonight on Echoes. E4 Instrumental was the number two album this month in the Echoes Top 25. So we’ll be revisiting our interview with Ken Ramm, the founder of the band. Ken Ramm played in rock bands as a kid and spent a lot of time composing the soundtrack for the soap opera,…
Best Of
From Oblivion to Euphoria in Echoes Top 25
Two Takes on Modern Guitar Lead Echoes Top 25 for January. You couldn’t get much different than the two guitar sounds at one & two in the Echoes Top 25. You’ve got the ambient guitar orchestrations of Hammock’s Oblivion Hymns, the Echoes CD of the Month for January followed at number 2 by E4 (Instrumental) …