We pick the Best Echoes CDs of the Year at the halfway point. John Diliberto then runs them down from #25 to number 1. It begins with a band we’ve never heard of before and ends with an Icon of Echoes. We’ll hear from artists who put out signature releases, others reaching for ambitious highs and still others reflecting on very long careers.
It’s Slow Flow Friday on Echoes, an all instrumental soundscape to take you into the weekend.
Six String Sojourn brings you a continuous soundscape based around acoustic and electric guitars. We’ll hear acoustic tunes, spacy atmospheres, and dramatic orchestrations.
There are three nights of great Echoes music this week in Philadelphia, when Lanterna, Low Roar and Ozric Tentacles come to town on consecutive nights.
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Nels Cline is best known as the guitarist with Wilco, but long before he joined that band he had a burgeoning solo career as a an outside jazz guitarist. He reflects on his music, which embraces the contemplative and the chaotic.
Nels Cline is best known as the guitarist with Wilco, but long before he joined that band he had a burgeoning solo career as a an outside jazz guitarist.
It’s Slow Flow Friday on Echoes, an all instrumental soundscape to take you into the weekend.
Sonomad is a project of keyboardist/programmer Ramin Sakuria and guitarist Geoffrey Brandin from The Supreme Beings of Leisure. As Sonomad, they create a downtempo space opera for a galactic sound wanderer.
Innovative and influential guitarist Kaki King talks about her daring new project called The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body.
The Big Ears Festival in Knoxville brought together an array of musicians from the bleeding edge of the avant-garde to the cutting edge of rock and folk. Kronos Quartet presided over this meeting ground of Vanguard music that included Laurie Anderson, Wu Man, Terry Riley, Rhiannon Giddens and much much more.