Natalie Merchant Returns with Self-Titled Album and Haunting Video Natalie Merchant releases her first album of all original music this May. Ahead of that, she’s released a simple, but powerful video for the best song on the album, “Gving Up Everything.” John Diliberto (((echoes))) No Echoes station in your area. You can hear it…
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Interview Podcast
Steve Roach in Echoes Podcast
Steve Roach Contemplates the Contemplation of Structures from Silence in Echoes Podcast Over the last 25 years, Steve Roach has been one of the signature artists of Echoes. He wrote our original theme music in 1989 and he was voted one of 20 Icons for 20 Years of Echoes. I’ve known Roach since 1983 when…
Program Highlights
Cosmic Cello and Downtempo Dreams
Hans Christian was one half of the group Rasa with singer Kim Waters, but before that he was a solo artist mixing his cello with electronics and other exotica. He returns to solo form on a new CD called Hidden Treasures. It’s an album of lush orchestrations featuring his cello, the Indian sarangi and sitara,…
Interview Podcast
30 Years of Stillness with Steve Roach
Steve Roach’s Structures From Silence Turns 30 Steve Roach has been one of the signature artists of Echoes. He wrote our original theme music in 1989 and he was voted one of 20 Icons for 20 Years of Echoes. I’ve known Roach since 1983 when I visited his small bungalow in Culver City near Los…
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Circadian Rhythms-Ambient Songs
Today on Echoes new music from S. Carey & Erothyme Coming up on Echoes, we’ll hear music from S. Carey’s Range of Light. Carey is the drummer and backing singer for Bon Iver and while he shares Justin Vernon’s vocal timbre he has his own atmospheric approach to the singer-songwriter paradigm. We’ll also fall into…
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Japanese Spaces-Arizona Skies
Today on Echoes it’s new music from Hiroki Okano and Steve Roach Hiroki Okano was initiated as a Buddhist monk, but he decided to take a different path. Throughout the 1990s, Okano made beautiful , delicately etched albums like Enn , Hearing There and Rainbow Over the Gypsy Hill, some of them on the late-lamented…
Best Of
Guitar Splendor in Echoes Top 25
Erik Wøllo and Mark McGuire bring guitars back to Echoes Top 25 Erik Wøllo’s February CD of the Month, Timelines, leads Echoes Top 25. It’s a brilliant recording of layered guitar dreamscapes. Following close behind is our soon-to-be March CD of the Month, Mark McGuire’s Progressive Rock epic, Along the Way. You’ll be hearing more about…
CD of the Month
Erik Wøllo’s Timelines
It’s a cliché, I know, but as soon as an Erik Wøllo album starts, you know you are on a journey. It’s like the moments before take-off, only Wøllo’s ascent doesn’t throw you back in your seat with G-Force thrust. It’s a gentle rise into euphoric space. Timelines is a beautifully sculpted example of…
Living Room Concerts
Shambhu Brings Windham Hill Sound to Echoes Tonight
Guitarist Shambhu Plays Live on Echoes Tonight. Windham Hill Records hasn’t been around for many years, but their influence remains strong. Today, we’ll hear from another guitar player whose music was shaped by the recordings of Will Ackerman and Alex De Grassi. Shambhu is one of those musicians. In fact, Windham Hill founder Will Ackerman…
Best Of
2013 Rewind: Best of Echoes 2013 Listener Poll
Start 2014 Off Right with a Reprise Broadcast of The Best of Echoes 2013 Listener Poll Results tonight 01/01/2014 What do you get when you take a contemporary avant-garde composer, psychedelic folkies, Indian sitarists and Japanese electronic musicians. Apparently you get the soundscape of Echoes or at least the music listeners thought was the best…