Tag: John Diliberto

Echo Location: The Penguin Cafe Orchestra

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20080723.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe Penguin Cafe Orchestra along with Harold Budd, virtually created the Ambient Chamber Music genre. Their CDs have just been re-released. In this Echo Location we return to a 1988 interview with PCO founder, the late-Simon Jeffes. You can hear an audio version of this blog with music…

An Echo Location: Alu’s Cosmic Cabaret

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20080716.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe latest singer to carry the torch of Kate Bush into new terrain is named Alu [You can also hear an Audio Version of this Blog, with Alu’s music] Ziggy Stardust came from Mars, Sun Ra came from Saturn.  Alu isn’t from another planet, but sometimes she wants…

Echo Location: Tangled up in Strings-California Guitar Trio & David Pritchard

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20080709.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe California Guitar Trio and David Pritchard are acoustic fingerstyle players who aren’t taking the lonley solo route. You can also hear an Audio version of this Echo Location, with music. If you think one acoustic guitar is good, there are some musicians who think 2, 3 or 4…

Ambient Chamber Music Reigns on Echoes Top 25 for June

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20080528.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAmbient Chamber music dominates top airplay at Echoes in June. We’ve been tracking ambient chamber music since the beginning of Echoes when it was mostly Tim Story, David Darling and Kevin Keller, but the subgenre has exploded, in an ambient chamber music way, that is, gently and without…

Beck, James Blunt and Elliott Smith producer Tom Rothrock unleashes his Americana Electronica.

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20080702.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSI’ve been beating the drum for Tom Rothrock‘s music for about a year and a half now, ever since I heard his debut album, Resonator. It’s an album of electric slide guitar and dobro married to strings and rhythm loops that conjure up an atmosphere that’s palpable. I’ve…

Sacred Earth-Wind of the East

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20080625.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPeter Kater creates a new Native Fusion project with Sacred Earth–Wind of the East (Hear an Audio version of this blog with music) On a new project called Sacred Earth, pianist Peter Kater expands his reputation as one of the leading purveyors of Native American fusion. With Sacred…

John Diliberto’s Ten Essential CDs for 2007

John Diliberto’s Top Ten for 2007 You’ve already seen and heard the Echoes 2007 Listener Poll, voted on by listeners and perhaps too many fan club members. And you’ll be seeing the 25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2007, a list of the favorite Echoes CDs voted on by Kimberly Haas, Jeff Towne, and me. Like…

Best of Echoes 2006 Listener Poll Results

The Best of Echoes 2006 Listener Poll is over and the results are in. The Listener’s Favorite 25 CDs of 2006 1 Lanterna -Desert Ocean 2 Bluetech – Sines and Singularities 3 Al Di Meola – Consequence of Chaos 4 Enigma – A Posteriori 5 Bombay Dub Orchestra – Bombay Dub Orchestra 6 Ah-Nee-Mah  -Ancient…

NEARFEST 2005 REFLECTIONS

“There is no progress in Progressive Rock.” Those are words I heard over and over again during the recent NEARFest, The North East Art Rock Festival. Whether I spoke to bassist Patrick Djivas of the Italian rock group, PFM, Roger Triguaux, guitarist with Present or Paul Sears, drummer with The Muffins, they all had the…