The thirteenth year of the 21st century doesn’t seem to be the right time to look back on the best of the millennium. Those lists usually come on the decade and quarter century marks. But I was asked to compile another Top Ten list for Echoes affiliate, WXPN in Philadelphia. This time, the impossible assignment…
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Best of Echoes 2011 So Far.
Skuli Severrison, Agnes Obel and Moby Top Echoes Mid-Year List We usually wait until the end of the year for these lists but why not take stock as we pass the half-way mark of 2011. Here’s our25 favorite Echoes CDs from the first 6 months of 2011. Skuli Sverrisson – Seria II (click for review…
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Winterlight Melts Echoes June Top 25
Winterlight’s Hope Dies Last leads Echoes Top 25 for June The sun is shining and it’s in the 90s in the land of Echoes, but Winterlight didn’t melt under the heat as it leads the Echoes Top 25 this month. His album, Hope Dies Last was the Echoes CD of the Month for June. That…
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Moby @ Moogfest 2011
Moby has just been added to the already impressive line-up of Moogfest 2011. He’ll be playing with a full band. His shows in 2009 were stunning. (See review) In addition, they’ve added the Lunz Project, which is the ambient chamber music collaboration between Tim Story and Hans-Joachim Roedelius who is already on the bill with…
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Moby Destroys Echoes Top 25for May.
Moby’s Destroyed Tops Echoes Top 25 for May No surprise that Moby’s Destroyed was #1 on the Echoes Top 25 for May. It was the Echoes CD of the Month. Electronic music dominates the Top 10 with a surprise at #2, Divine Matrix’s Invisible Landscape leaping in. This album of melodic glitch-flecked music came out…
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Destroyed by Moby: Echoes May CD of the Month.
Moby’s Destroyed is the Echoes May CD of the Month ***Hear interview with Moby tonight & tomorrow night on Echoes, June 13 & 14 and this weekend, June 18 & 20*** With Destroyed and his previous CD, Wait for Me, Moby has moved from an iconic electronic trendsetter to a singer-songwriter exploring personal stories with…
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New Moby Song & Video @ NPR
I caught a great new song by Moby for an NPR thing called Project Song. They invite an artist in to compose and record a song in two days. Moby came in with singer Kelli Scarr and they recorded a gorgeous song that stands up to materiel on Moby’s Wait for Me on which Scarr…
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5 Best Moby CDs: An Icon of Echoes
5 CDs to Get Mobyized Play with Play The B Sides This is the place to start. It’s Moby’s influential album from 1999 where he lifted old blues and gospel recordings and sampled them into his own seductive dance pieces. You’ve heard them all because they’ve all been licensed to films, commercials and TV. Highlights…
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3 Variations of a New Americana: Moby-Bill Frisell-Jon Hassell
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091216.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAmericana Pulls Up Its Roots You can hear an audio version of this Blog with music Americana is a genre that usually refers to rustic music with roots in heartland sounds from folk, blues and country. Looking back on 2009, Americana emerged in some unusual locations on Echoes,…
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Top 25 ECHOES CDs for 2009: Essential Choices
25 ESSENTIAL ECHOES CDS FOR 2009 We’ve sorted through some 2000 CDs and downloads that came into Echoes in the last year and we’ve picked our favorite CDs for 2009. You can vote for your’s in the Best of Echoes 2009 Poll. Deadline is 9AM, December 11. Overall, the mood of 2009 on Echoes was…