Tag: guitar

An Angel Taps Pat Metheny & John Zorn.

A Review of Pat Metheny’s Tap: John Zorn’s Book of Angels Volume 20 Hear Pat Metheny talk about John Zorn’s Book of Angels Volume 20 on the Echoes Podcast Pat Metheny and John Zorn were born within a year of each other and share many of the same musical influences.  But in their professional lives,…

Janel & Anthony Echoes Podcast.

The Avant-garde is Made Beautiful by This Washington D.C. Ambient Chamber Music Duo Hear their Echoes Interview Podcast on iTunes. Janel Leppin and Anthony Pirog are two musicians living between worlds and sometimes states.  The couple are associated with the avant-garde music scene in Washington D.C.  The only thing is, their music tends to be…

Hammock Swings Out 2012 with CD of the Month

Ambient Post-Rock Avatars Transcend their Roots Hear Hammock interviewed on Echoes Tonight 03/06/2013. In an immersive experience where time loses meaning and there is no up nor down, it takes a quantum physicist’s sense of time and an astronaut’s sense of space to navigate.  Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson are neither scientists nor pilots, but…

Nels Cline Singers Scream

The Nels Cline Singers, who don’t really sing, ignite Johnny Brenda’s On a day when Philadelphia hit 103 degrees, the guitar of Nels Cline often sounded like it had been left to bake on the sun heated sidewalk, emitting the squawks, squeals and crunch of fried circuits and melted strings screaming in agony.  Nels Cline,…

Jimmy Wahlsteen 181st Songs Echoes CD of the Month for January

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091230.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSwedish musician Jimmy Wahlsteen Channels Pop into Fingerstyle Guitar. You can hear an Audio Version of this blog, with Jimmy Wahlsteen’s music. On the cover of his debut album, 181st Songs, Jimmy Wahlsteen just looks too stylish to be a fingerstyle guitar slinger.  GQ poses and an androgynous…

Will Ackerman Then & Now: 5 Best CDs

Five Best Will Ackerman CDs There are a few people of whom I can say, if not for them, I wouldn’t be here.  And that’s the case with Will Ackerman.  He founded Windham Hill Records, still a cornerstone of the music you hear on Echoes.  That would probably be enough, but he also launched the…

Echoes August CD of the Month: Chris Bocast and MJCatalin’s Stratagem

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090729.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS American guitarist Chris Bocast teams with Romanian electronic artist MJCatalin in meeting of ambient and progressive music You can hear an audio version of this blog with Chris Bocast & MJCatalin’s music here. Chris Bocast was all set to be a rockin’ guitarist.  He played with rock…

Echo Location: Bill Frisell

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090715.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA Different kind of Americana You can hear an audio version of this Blog with Bill Frisell’s music here. Guitarist Bill Frisell is a genre unto himself.  His music flows through interlocking veins of jazz improvisation and harmonies, country melodicism and twang, chamber music strings and electronic dissonances. …

Echo Location: Leo Abrahams May CD of the Month

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090429.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA Brian Eno accomplice looks to the pastoral past on The Grape and the Grain. You can hear an audio version of this blog with Leo Abrahams’ music here. Leo Abrahams is one of those musicians, you may not know, but you have heard him.  He’s performed with…

Echoes March Top 25: David Darling Tops

David Darling Tops Echoes  Top 25 for March This year is already shaping up to be a diverse and unusual one with fantastic, innovative music coming from unlikely sources.   David Darling’s Prayer for Compassion topping the list, is of course, no surprise.  He was our Echoes CD of the Month for March and he’s been…