It seems like an annual ritual in Philadelphia; the descent of the Sun Ra Arkestra on Halloween. This year, it took place in the cramped, balcony wrapped confines of Philadelphia’s Johnny Brenda’s in a show produced by the Ars Nova Workshop. Led by 91 year old Marshall Allen, the band brought the joy.
Every year on Echoes we create a two-hour soundscape of haunted music. But online, we go even further into the underworld with a six hour Wordless Echoes Halloween, an all instrumental walk through the dark side. Listen if you dare.
Welcome to the Terror Dome. We take you to the dark side of Echoes and a soundscape full of ghosts, spirits, and musical bumps in the night.
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Alan Howarth is best known for working with director John Carpenter in the 1970s on films like the Halloween sequels, Christine and Escape From New York.
The annual Echoes Halloween show is one of the easiest thematic programs to put together every year. There is just so much great music based around themes of horror, mysticism and alien adventures. The only problem is fitting new tracks in when there are so many great perennial tracks we like to play. A few…
Hear the Maestro of Horror Soundtracks, Alan Howarth, in Echoes Podcast The music of horror in movies has been defined by a few composers. One of them is Alan Howarth. He’s from The Beatles generation and came up in the psychedelic era and the birth of modern electronic music. He’s best known for working with…
The music of horror in movies has been defined by a few composers. One of them is Alan Howarth. He’s from The Beatles generation and came up in the psychedelic era and the birth of electronic music. He’s best known for working with director John Carpenter in the 1970s on films like the Halloween sequels,…
Three nights of electronic music blazed forth the weekend of October 25-27 at the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit in Asheville, North Carolina. Scattered across Asheville’s compact downtown in five different venues ranging from a bar to an arena, musicians plugged in with a range of electronic dreams. One musician was 77 years old with…
Tonight on Echoes, it’s music for things that go bump in the night. No, not those things. Scary things. It’s a time for spirits and spooks, vampires and zombies, witches and whispers. We’ll hear them all as we go to the darkside of Echoes. I’ll be your sonic crypt-keeper as we explore a sound between…
Halloween is coming and we’ll be running an Echoes Halloween on Monday, October 31. Don’t Turn Out the Lights. While I was gathering tracks to put in the show I came across a video by Mazmoneth, a duo that records on Ian Boddy’s DiN label. Their album Music by Mirrors combines the DiN label’s penchant…