It’s a cliché, I know, but as soon as an Erik Wøllo album starts, you know you are on a journey. It’s like the moments before take-off, only Wøllo’s ascent doesn’t throw you back in your seat with G-Force thrust. It’s a gentle rise into euphoric space. Timelines is a beautifully sculpted example of…
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Best Of
From Oblivion to Euphoria in Echoes Top 25
Two Takes on Modern Guitar Lead Echoes Top 25 for January. You couldn’t get much different than the two guitar sounds at one & two in the Echoes Top 25. You’ve got the ambient guitar orchestrations of Hammock’s Oblivion Hymns, the Echoes CD of the Month for January followed at number 2 by E4 (Instrumental) …
Interview Podcast
Matt Borghi & Michael Teager on Echoes Podcast
Hear Two Musicians Who Begin at Zero These days in contemporary music, most musicians don’t leave much to chance when they play live. They either adhere to note-for-note recreations of their recorded work or they just have it all in a computer, hit play and have a perfect, if frozen performance. Ambient guitarist Matt Borghi…
Program Highlights
Start at Zero: Matt Borghi & Michael Teager on Echoes
These days in contemporary music, most musicians don’t leave much to chance when they play live. They either adhere to note-for-note recreations of their recorded work or they just have it all in a computer, hit play and have a perfect, if frozen performance. Ambient guitarist Matt Borghi and saxophonist Michael Teager don’t work that…
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2013 Rewind: Best of Echoes 2013 Listener Poll
Start 2014 Off Right with a Reprise Broadcast of The Best of Echoes 2013 Listener Poll Results tonight 01/01/2014 What do you get when you take a contemporary avant-garde composer, psychedelic folkies, Indian sitarists and Japanese electronic musicians. Apparently you get the soundscape of Echoes or at least the music listeners thought was the best…
Living Room Concerts
Last Spaceship Before Christmas: Vic Hennegan Live on Echoes
You can sort of blame me for Vic Hennegan. He grew up in Philadephia in the 1970s listening to me spinning space music albums by Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and Jean Michel Jarre on WXPN back then. That, and the fact that his mother took him to psychedelic ballrooms like the Electric Factory as a…
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Best of Echoes 2013 Listener Poll
What do you get when you take a contemporary avant-garde composer, psychedelic folkies, Indian sitarists and Japanese electronic musicians. Apparently you get the soundscape of Echoes or at least the music listeners thought was the best aspect of that soundscape. Listeners have voted and today we’ll hear the results of the Best of Echoes 2013.…
Best Of
25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2013
Some years are better than others and 2013 was much better than most. Right now, you can Vote in the Best of Echoes 2013 Listener Poll. But, this list is different. This is compiled by the brain trust of Echoes. These are the CDs we played on the show in 2013 that we thought represented…
CD of the Month
David Helpling & Jon Jenkins’ CD of the Month Hat Trick
DAVID HELPLING & JON JENKINS DISCOVER THE THIRD RING OF THEIR TRILOGY: FOUND THE ECHOES DECEMBER CD OF THE MONTH Hear it featured tonight 12/2, on Echoes. The next time you watch an episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones, mute the TV sound and dial up David Helpling and Jon Jenkins’ Found . You won’t…
Living Room Concerts
Transmissions: Echoes Living Room Concerts V19
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/audio/NearLight.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSINCOMING MESSAGE: TRANSMISSIONS: THE ECHOES LIVING ROOM CONCERTS VOLUME 19 TRANSMISSIONS is a collection of live Echoes performances that shows Echoes moving into the future in our 25th year. It’s a merging of electronic, new acoustic, dream pop and ambient chamber music. This is the center of Echoes.…