Tag: electronica

The Soft-Focus Glow of Azure Ray.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

5 Best Ulrich Schnauss CDs (Minus-1)

https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-UlrichSchnauss.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSI usually use Five Best Albums for Icons of Echoes, but Ulrich Schnauss has only three proper albums, one remix collection and EPs. So this is The Five Best Ulrich Schnauss CDs (Minus-1). The thing is, each one is nearly perfection. Ulrich Schnauss is a German electronic artist…

Carmen Rizzo & Huun Huur Tu: Electronica Throat Singing

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…

Echo Location: Tosca’s Chillout Soliloquy

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…

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…