Kaya Project Tops our January Top 25. Kaya Project makes it’s way to the top, no surprise since it was our Echoes CD of the Month for January. Kaya Project’s Seb Taylor actually gets a double hit since his Hibernation album, Some Things Never Change, also made the list. But Kaya Project points to a…
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Echo Location: Blooming Buddhas with Eno and FM3
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20080723.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSBack in the 1960s, Max Mathews, one of the pioneers of computer music, reputedly proclaimed that one day, even your plumber would be able to create music. His dream was realized sometime ago with computer programs and electronic keyboards. Now a new generation of music generating toys is…
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Echoes Top 25 for December
We’re a little late, but here’s the Echoes Top 25 for this past December. Perhaps surprisingly, only one seasonal title on there, Loreena McKennitt’s A Midwinter Night’s Dream, although a couple of our Sonic Seasonings performers, including Lisa Lynne & Aryeh Frankfurter and Sumner McKane ranked high. New additions include some great electronica albums by Motionfield,…
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New Celtic Christmas Music
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20081217.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAine Minogue, Loreena McKennitt and Enya do a Celtic Christmas (You can hear an Audio Version of this blog with music excerpts from these albums.) Celtic music and Christmas go together as well as Handel‘s Messiah and Christmas. If you want to tap into that contemplative, fireplace, snowflakes and…
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Ludovico Einaudi-New Age Fodder or Classical Elegance
Ludovico Einaudi is in the midst of a short US tour. Echoes and WFUV will be presenting him in concert in New York City on Tuesday November 25th. He just played Los Angeles in Largo at the Coronet Theater and two reviews from that show point up the dichotomies in Einaudi’s music. Writing in the…
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Echoes Top 25 for October: Ambient continues to roll
This month’s Echoes Top 25 continues the roll of ambient music, especially in the Top 10. Sumner McKane‘s What A Great Place to Be is number one by dint of being the Echoes CD of the Month for October, but even without that honor and extra airplay it entails, it was already #4 the previous…
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Lisa Lynne & Aryeh Frankfurter Echoes Concert Video
We just got back from an amazing set of Echoes Living Room Concert recordings in Los Angeles. We set up camp at the studios of Broken Wave Music and in three days we had five acts come in to record 6 concerts and 3 interviews. The artists were Suzanne Teng & Mystic Journey, Lisa Lynne…
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Echoes Top 25 for September-Ambient Leads the Way
Digitonal tops the Echoes Top 25 for September, and will no doubt be near the top for the next several months. But right behind is Marconi Union, topping their own record as the highest placing digital download recording on Echoes. October’s CD of the Month, Sumner McKane’s nostalgia-tinged ambient americana masterpiece, What A Great Place…
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Music from the Hearts of Space makes 25th orbit around the sun
Hearts of Space Turns 25.Music from the Hearts of Space is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. They launched their nationally distributed show in 1983 although it originated 10 years earlier from the studios of KPFA in Berkeley, California. To commemorate the anniversary, they’ve put out a CD with the music from their initial syndicated…
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STEVE REICH PUSH-STARTED MY VW BUG AND MINIMALISM
We celebrate Steve Reich on his 70th birthday with this anecdote that goes back to the days of drumming and something Reich probably won’t remember.