Today we unveil the Best of Echoes 2014. It’s a list that draws from across the Echoes spectrum, revealing the eclectic sound of the show within our framework of chilled moods.
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Best of Echoes 2014
Tag: singer-songwriter
CD of the Month
Philip Selway’s Weatherhouse CD of the Month
Philip Selway is the drummer from Radiohead, but that information does little to prepare you for the sensitive, gentle songs of broken love and redemption that populate his second solo album, Weatherhouse. Even his first album, the more folk inclined Familial, won’t set you up for the lush textures and seductive melodies he conjures. Weatherhouse…
Reviews & Commentary
Ricochets: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 20.
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/audio/01PrairieSuite.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn our 25th year, the 20th Echoes Living Room Concert CD. Epic voices from the 1990s, children of progressive rock, global music explorers and a new sound of ambient pop form part of the roadmap to Ricochets, our 20th volume of live Echoes performances. Here’s some track-by-track insight into…
CD of the Month
Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence Echoes CD of the Month
Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence is not your usual Echoes CD of the Month. It’s not ethereal and dreamy. It won’t soothe you. But along with Beck’s transcendent (and soothing) Morning Phase, it’s one of the most important albums of the year.
Best Of, Reviews & Commentary
The Best of Echoes 2014 …So Far
We Pick the Best Echoes CDs of the Year at the Halfway Point. Hear them tonight on Echoes. See A Spotify Playlist Below It seems like it’s been such a long year, and it’s only half over. That’s what usually what happens when so much good music has come out. There are albums I feel…
Interview Podcast
S.Carey in Echoes Podcast
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-SCarey.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSean Carey has created an album of transcendent repose called Range of Light that uses naturalistic metaphor inspired by John Muir to talk about themes of love and family. He talks about it in the Echoes Podcast. Hear it below. https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-SCarey.mp3
Living Room Concerts
Lyla Foy Plays Live on Echoes
Lyla Foy Brings her Haunting Songs to Echoes Live. A lot of modern singers can’t bring it live. They need backing tapes, ghost vocals, and rhythm tracks, if not more. I remember one live Echoes session where the only sound in the studio was a lone voice, barely. Everything else, vocal harmonies, bass, guitar, drums and…
Living Room Concerts
S. Carey Live on Echoes
Bon Iver Drummer Creates Naturalist Dream Pop Sean Carey has spent the last few years stroking drums and providing harmony vocals behind dream folk artist Bon Iver. So it’s not surprising that when he records as S.Carey, his own music has that same slow motion melancholy feel. But Carey brings some other elements to his…
Interview Podcast
Marissa Nadler in Echoes Podcast
Singer-Songwriter Marissa Nadler in Echoes Podcast. Her mother is an abstract painter. She grew up on Nirvana and Mojave 3 and recorded with an experimental Heavy Metal artist. Those are all aspects you might not expect from a women who makes gently melodic, atmospherically mysterious, and lyrically intriguing music, playing on fingerstyle guitar with a…
Program Highlights
Marissa Nadler’s Surreal Dream-Folk Music
Singer-Songwriter Marissa Nadler tonight on Echoes. Her mother was an abstract artist. She grew up on Nirvana and Mojave 3 and recorded with an experimental Heavy Metal artist. All aspects you might not expect from a women who makes gently melodic, atmospherically mysterious, and lyrically intriguing music, playing on fingerstyle guitar with a voice that…