Experience the holiday season with a different kind of soundtrack on Echoes’ Sonic Seasonings featuring Phil Keaggy & Jeff Johnson and Erik Wøllo.
Playlists
Monday, December 14, 2015-Echoes Program 1550A
Tag: Progressive Rock
Best Of
John Diliberto’s Top 25 Albums for 2015
Echoes host John Diliberto has picked his Top 25 albums of 2015. They range from dream pop to sequencer dervishes to ambient chamber music to fusion and beyond.
Playlists
Wednesday, December 9th, 2015-Echoes Program 1549C
2015 began with the unexpected death of Edgar Froese, the founding member of the German electronic band, Tangerine Dream. 2015 also saw the anniversary of two influential Tangerine Dream albums, Rubycon and Ricochet.
Playlists
Thursday, December 3rd, 2015-Echoes Program 1548D
Brian Eno’s “Discreet Music,” released 40 years ago, is the seminal work of ambient music. A Toronto new music group arranges it for acoustic instruments.
Playlists
Tuesday, December 1st, 2015-Echoes Program 1548B
Jamie Sieber was at the leading edge of a new generation of cellists taking the most soulful of symphonic strings in new directions, looping her cello and using electric guitar-style effects. She comes in to create her looping cello chamber works live.
Playlists
Wednesday, November 25th, 2015-Echoes Program 1547C
We’ll hear from a 21st century progressive rock opus by Mark McGuire called Beyond Belief and sufi chants turned into lush tapestries by HuDost.
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
Program Highlights, Reviews & Commentary
Steve Hackett Live at The Keswick Review
Steve Hackett was the guitarist of the glory years of the progressive rock group, Genesis and he has continued in that mode with some of the most exhilarating guitar playing of the last 30 years. On his latest concert tour, From Acolyte to Wolflight, Hackett plays solo music old and new plus a set of Genesis materiel. He landed at the Keswick Theater in Glenside, PA on 11/20.
Playlists
Friday, November 20th, 2015-Echoes Program 1546E
On a Slow Flow Echoes John Diliberto brings us an all instrumental soundscape that will include new music by David Arkenstone and synth -guitarist Mark Dwane
Program Highlights, Reviews & Commentary
John Zorn’s Simulacrum Live at Johnny Brenda’s.
John Zorn creates avant-progressive rock with a simulacrum in the form of a power organ trio with organist John Medeski, guitarist Matt Hollenberg and drummer Kenny Grohowski. They tore up a full house at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia.