Bert Lams & Tom Griesgraber talk about their concept album, Unnamed Lands tonight on Echoes. Bert Lams &Tom Griesgraber are both post-progressive rock veterans. Bert Lams is the best known as part of the California Guitar Trio. Tom Griesgraber is lesser known with one previous album out, but he’s been creating progressive music for Chapman…
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Living Room Concerts
Sticks & Strings-Greisgraber & Lams Live on Echoes
Hear Chapman Stick Player Tom Greisgraber & Guitarist Bert Lams Live on Echoes Tonight We know Bert Lams as one head in the three-headed, six-armed monster of the California Guitar Trio. Tom Griesgraber plays the Chapman Stick, enhancing his two-handed tapping with atmospheric effects. They come in to the Echoes Living Room to play music…
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Re-Genesis – Steve Hackett Live.
Steve Hackett Goes Back to Beginning at Keswick Theatre With Yestival this past summer, gearing up for Hawkwind’s sadly postponed tour, and now Steve Hackett revisiting his work with Genesis, it’s been a year for Progressive Rock nostalgia. Guitarist Steve Hackett was with Genesis for their glory years and then stuck around for two post-Peter…
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Retro-California, Future Space & Joy Formidable On Echoes
Today on Echoes it’s new music by Raygun Ballet. This is the recording persona of John-Mark Austin. He’s best known as an Academy Award winning CGI artist whose work includes Avatar among many others. When he makes music, Austin explores a retro-futurism, pulling soundclips from the 50s that are usually looking forward to an age…
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Psychedelic to Serenity: Mike Wall Echoes Interview
We get a lot of music in here with titles like “Music for Massage,” “Music for Yoga,” “Music for Meditation.” They almost never make it onto the show, but every now and then we get one that has a little bit more going for it, than pretty sounds and contemplative moods. That’s the case with…
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Celtic Returns, Prog on the Side, Experiment into Ambient
We’ve got a lot of new music from old friends today on Echoes. Clannad, the legendary Irish band and one of the groups that launched the Celtic renaissance in the 1980s, returns with their first album in 15 years. It’s called Nádúr, Gaelic for nature, and it brings the core members of Clannad back together,…
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Krimson, Kveikur and Church tonight on Echoes
Sigur Ros is touring the US this fall. Hear some of what they’ll be playing when we hear a track off their latest CD, Kveikur. We’ll also hear a sublime classic from the Discipline era of King Crimson and there’s a surprising track from Charlotte Church, the former child-prodigy opera star who tunes her pipes…
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Just Say YESTIVAL to Another Excess.
A Rousing Yes to Yestival with Yes, Renaissance, Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy, Volto! and The Musical Box In 1971 I went to the Orpheum Theater in Boston for a double bill of Yes and King Crimson. Being too hip for the room, I was there to see the Islands edition of Crimson. Yes of course,…
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Echoes Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Tubular Bells.
Interview: Mike Oldfield – the 40th Anniversary of Tubular Bells on Echoes Hear it on-air the weekend of May 24-26 Hear the Echoes Podcast of the interview with Mike Oldfield on Tubular Bells It was forty years ago that Mike Oldfield electrified the world with his hit album, Tubular Bells. It had one composition spanning…
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Two Epic Birthdays: Mike Oldfield & Brian Eno.
Mike Oldfield & Brian Eno both share birthdays today. Oldfield turns 60 and Eno turns 65. Each artist has shaped the music we hear today. Brian Eno has been the more prolific and expansive, working across genres and attaining massive popular success in each of the last 5 decades through his work with other artists…