Pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist Michael Bisio essay intimate jazz duets and torrential improvisations live in Philadelphia
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Matthew Shipp Live in Philadelphia
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Best Of
The Best of Echoes 2015 Poll
Echoes listeners are now voting in the Best of Echoes 2015 Poll. They are picking their 10 favorite albums heard on Echoes in 2015 and they’ll be tabulated into the Echoes Top 25 Albums for 2015
CD of the Month
November 2015 CD of the Month-Kevin Keller-La Strada
Kevin Keller is one of the leading exponents of Ambient Chamber music with a dozen albums exploring a world between electronic and acoustic, ambient and classical music. His latest is called La Strada, and it’s the Echoes November CD of the Month
Playlists
Weekend, September 26 & 27, 2015-Echoes Program 1538A
Slow Meadow is the performance name of Matt Kidd who started out as a guitarist playing in church and Christian music bands before venturing out on his own ambient journey.
Reviews & Commentary
Julia Holter Betsy on the Roof
Julia Holter released her album “Have You in My Wilderness” earlier this year. Now she has a new video of a stark live performance of “Betsy on the Roof” which she takes into Cecil Taylor territory.
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015-Echoes Program 1538C
Echoes celebrates the arrival of fall with a soundscape of autumnal moods and melancholy ambiences. These shows tend to take on a more pastoral acoustic tone and there will be plenty of that, but also some electronic tone poems and ambient excursions. Turn your fall foliage into a lightshow with an Echoes Autumnal Equinoxe
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015-Echoes Program 1538B
Steven Halpern has been called the Godfather of New Age music and there’s a lot of evidence to validate that claim.
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Monday, September 21st, 2015-Echoes Program 1538A
Slow Meadow is the performance name of Matt Kidd who started out as a guitarist playing in church and Christian music bands before venturing out on his own ambient journey.
Playlists
Tuesday, September 1, 2015-Echoes Program 1535B
Árstíðir is a band out of Iceland with an organic, acoustic sound that has roots in the harmonies of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2015-Echoes Program 1534B
Kristin’s music has been called “Ethereal Renaissance Pop” and she’s been recording it for most of this millennium.