The 2007 Echoes Listener Poll 1 Loreena McKennitt – An Ancient Muse 2 Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble – New Impossibilities 3 David Arkenstone – Myths and Legends 4 Patrick O’Hearn – Glaciation 5 Anoushka Shankar & Karsh Kale – Breathing Under Water 6 Loreena McKennitt – Nights from the Alhambra 7 Lisa…
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John Diliberto’s Ten Essential CDs for 2007
John Diliberto’s Top Ten for 2007 You’ve already seen and heard the Echoes 2007 Listener Poll, voted on by listeners and perhaps too many fan club members. And you’ll be seeing the 25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2007, a list of the favorite Echoes CDs voted on by Kimberly Haas, Jeff Towne, and me. Like…
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The 2007 Best of Echoes Poll Opens
I bet many of you don’t care much about polls. Good music is good music. Music you like is the music you like. You probably don’t need to know what thousands of other people think to form your own opinion and tastes. But polls do serve a real function in a community. They’re effective for…
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Scott Huckabay-A child of Hendrix, a brother of Hedges
Scott Huckabay came into the Echoes Living Room today. He was last on the show in 1998, although we’ve played his music regularly ever since. Scott Huckabay is a combination of an acoustic, finger style player who dips his already formidable technique into an array of stomp boxes, delays, loops, harmonizers and octave shifters. Think…
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Klaus Schulze turns 60
A pioneer of the electronic frontier officially hits old age. It may not have sounded like it much in the last 15 or so years, but Klaus Schulze was part of the original genesis of Echoes. The albums he recorded in the 1970s and early 80s reside at the core of music experiences for myself…
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Best of Echoes 2006 Listener Poll Results
The Best of Echoes 2006 Listener Poll is over and the results are in. The Listener’s Favorite 25 CDs of 2006 1 Lanterna -Desert Ocean 2 Bluetech – Sines and Singularities 3 Al Di Meola – Consequence of Chaos 4 Enigma – A Posteriori 5 Bombay Dub Orchestra – Bombay Dub Orchestra 6 Ah-Nee-Mah -Ancient…
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The Final Four Refractions: Petteway & White, Don Peris, Caryn Lin, Vic Hennegan
Here are the stories behind last four artists to appear on Refractions: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 12. What a coincidence that only a few hours ago I stepped out of the Echoes Living Room after a new concert with Al Petteway & Amy White. They drove up today from North Carolina to record…
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Four Stories from Refractions: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 12
Refractions: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 12 launches Thursday night, November 16. The music on this CD tells a story of its own, a sound of synthesis and collaboration, world fusions, ambient designs and sonic explorations. But there are also stories behind each of those songs, unique circumstances that are part of the wonder…
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Download This: Lisa Gerrard, Patrick O’Hearn bypass CDs
Tonight on Echoes, (tomorrow in Philadelphia) you’ll hear an hour of music that you can only buy on-line. This isn’t a new phenomenon and I wrote about it a few months back (Farewell CD), but the transition is happening faster than I expected. MP3.com helped pioneer digital delivery before effectively folding its tent three years…
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Arvo Pärt Reinvented
It was a double dose of Amiina and Slow Six this weekend. Earlier, I wrote about their Echoes Living Room Concert performances. But I also got to see them in regular concert performances, both on the same day. There were only about 60 people at the Slow Six concert this past Saturday night at The…