Hear an Interview with Darkside Tonight on Echoes. This past October I got to see the band Darkside at the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit. They played before an impressively large audience in the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, considering they only had one album out, Psychic. They’re a band that favors shadows, standing in twin cones…
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Interview Podcast
Jherek Bischoff on Echoes Podcast
Hear about Jherek Bishoff’s strange life and idiosyncratic music in the Echoes Podcast. There’s a lot of chamber music being written lately by rock musicians. Ólafur Arnalds, Johann Johannsson, Rhian Sheehan all started out as pure rock musicians, often punk musicians. So did Jherek Bischoff. He’s played with people like Amanda Palmer, but on his…
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Jherek Bischoff’s Chamber Pop & Deep Listening.
There’s a lot of chamber music being written lately by rock musicians. Ólafur Arnalds, Johann Johannsson, Rhian Sheehan all started out as pure rock musicians, often punk musicians. So did Jherek Bischoff. He’s played with people like Amanda Palmer, but on his own he makes a chamber pop music that includes vocalists like David Byrne,…
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Keith Jarrett Gets Down on His Own
Keith Jarrett’s new album, No End, is a Jam Band of one. If you’re shocked by any direction that Keith Jarrett takes, then you haven’t been paying attention. The peripatetic pianist has recorded albums on solo pipe organ (Hymns/Spheres) and clavichord (Book of Ways). He’s recorded classical works from Bach to Mozart, including Bach’s Six…
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Busking to Beauty: Ane Brun Interviewed on Echoes
Tonight on Echoes we revisit our interview with Anne Brun. Norwegian-born, Sweden-based singer-songwriter Ane Brun creates a dreamy, folk-based music. She looks back on her 10 year career and new double CD retrospective Songs 2003-2013. But she started out as a busker. There are thousands of them around the world: Musicians playing on street corners,…
Interview Podcast
Ane Brun Interviewed on Echoes Podcast.
Hear Ane Brun interviewed in the Echoes Podcast. Norwegian-born, Sweden-based singer-songwriter Ane Brun creates a dreamy, folk-based music. She looks back on her 10 year career and new double CD retrospective Songs 2003-2013. But she started out as a busker. There are thousands of them around the world: Musicians playing on street corners, in cafes…
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Busking to Beauty: Ane Brun Interviewed on Echoes
Norwegian-born, Sweden-based singer-songwriter Ane Brun creates a dreamy, folk-based music. She looks back on her 10 year career and new double CD retrospective Songs 2003-2013. But she started out as a busker. There are thousands of them around the world: Musicians playing on street corners, in cafes and any other place an audience might stroll…
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Echoes – Tues, May 28th
On the next Echoes, music from German bassist Eberhard Weber. He has one of the most instantly recognizable sounds in jazz and has recorded with artists like Kate Bush. His album Resume is excerpted from live performances he played with Jan Garbarek over the course of 25 years. Below you can see a video of…
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So You Think You Survived the End of the World?
Well it was already over according to Sun Ra. Here’s a song for those of you who think you survived the post-Mayan Calendar apocalypse. Although the best version of this song is on the album, It’s After the End of the World, I was lucky to find this video from the Sun Ra movie, Space…
Reviews & Commentary
Sam River’s Final Note R.I.P.
Jazz Giant Sam River’s Passes Away. I was so sad to hear of the passing of Sam Rivers at 88 years of age on December 26, 2011. He was an iconoclastic musician who came up in the free jazz days and cut through that scene with music blazing in serrated slices. I got to see…