Hear Azure Ray talk about their music on Echoes Tuesday October 23. The Dream Pop duo know as Azure Ray came into the Echoes Living Room yesterday and put on a breathless and enchanting performance playing music from their new CD, As Above So Below as well as some older songs including “November.” Their’s is…
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Interview Podcast
Alu’s Psychosis Cabaret
The Echoes Podcast with Alu is now up on iTunes. Take a step inside the fascinating world of this gifted singer-songwriter who’s music embodies electronica, cabaret and goth in a joyful music with a chilling undertow. Here she is talking about her song “In the Mausoleum” from her new CD, Madhouse Masquerade. Alu: It’s actually…
CD of the Month
Ambient Noir Moods from Marconi Union.
THE ECHOES CD OF THE MONTH FOR JULY Marconi Union’s Different Colours Hear Marconi Union interviewed tonight 8/29/2012 on Echoes. Six years years ago, Marconi Union entranced us with their second album, Distance. It was music that emerged from a smoke shrouded city, both luxurious in its atmospheres and dangerous in its menace. Heroic melodies…
CD of the Month
Air’s Safari to the Moon.
The Echoes March CD of the Month: Air’s Le Voyage Dans La Lune Hear Air’s Le Voyage Dans La Lune featured on Echoes Monday March 5 The duo called Air is one the most influential acts to come out of France since Jean-Michel Jarre in the early 1970s. Their debut album, Moon Safari is an…
Reviews & Commentary
New Ulrich Schnauss Track
We’ve been waiting a while for new music by Ulrich Schnauss, which is one reason we were so behind Winterlight’s Hope Dies Last with it’s Schnaussian shoegaze moods. Schnauss reports a new direction and album is in the offing. Meanwhile, he’s completed a project with Mark Peters called “Balcony Sunset” that has the earmarks of…
Reviews & Commentary
5 Best Ulrich Schnauss CDs (Minus-1)
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Carmen Rizzo & Huun Huur Tu: Electronica Throat Singing
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSTuvan throat Singers Huun Huur Tu get electrified by Carmen Rizzo. You can hear an audio version of this blog, with music, here. In a New York hotel room, Bapa Sayan is singing in a low guttural moan that sounds like gorillas gargling. He does this in a…
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Echo Location: Tosca’s Chillout Soliloquy
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090527.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSTosca turns down the beats and turns up the atmosphere on No Hassle. You can hear an audio version of this blog with Tosca music here. The Viennese duo called Tosca may take their name from the Puccini opera, but this plugged in pair doesn’t usually have romantic…
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From Miles in space to Jazz for the Deaf: Ben Neill and Mörglbl
Two distant jazz mutations from opposite directions when Ben Neill and Mörglbl hit Philadelphia. I caught two very disparate shows in Philadelphia this weekend, both drawing upon elements of jazz, but ultimately having little to do with jazz at all. First up was Ben Neill, performing at Saturday, May 16 at The Gatherings concert series. …
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Ozric Tentacles, Natural Born Chillers and YumYum Music
Ozric picks the fruit of The YumYum Tree & Natural Born Chillers Return Two slices of downtempo psychedelia have crossed over recently. Ozric Tentacles follows up their last studio album, The Floor Is Too Far Away with a new one called The YumYum Tree. It’s another foray of deeply electrified psychedelic journeys. Synthesizers pulse while…