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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The Echoes Discovery of 2013: Mree
Hear Mree interviewed on Echoes tonight. Technically, Mree isn’t a new artist. She released her debut album, Glow, in 2011 when she was all of 17 years old. But it’s her sophomore release, Winterwell, that revealed an artist of intoxicating depth and studio virtuosity. Mree is not your typical singer song-writer. Even though she started…
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…
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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…
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Improvisations in Ambience: Borghi & Teager Live on Echoes
Jazz goes Ambient with Matt Borghi & Michael Teager on Echoes Tonight. 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…
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Heavenly Choirs from Julianna Barwick on Echoes
Enya may not be putting out any new music but there are many artists who are taking that layered vocal sound in different directions. One of them is Julianna Barwick. The Louisiana born, Missouri raised and of course, Brooklyn based artist does something Enya doesn’t dare do, perform live, layering her voice in real time…
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Ascend the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit on Echoes.
Tonight on Echoes we talk to Ashley Capps, Producer of the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit There are many electronic music festivals out there from the Detroit Music Festival to the Ultra Music Festival. But none have the breadth of acts you’ll find at the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit, the successor to Moogfest in…
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Dreams and Machines, Autoharps and Sequencers tonight on Echoes.
Tonight on Echoes you can hear a singer-songwriter who could’ve been recording 50 years ago and another who is strickly 21st century. And I have electronic music that could’ve been made forty years ago and another born from contemporary aesthetics. Basia Bulat is a singer who has just released her third album, Tall Tall Shadow. …
Interview Podcast
Ethereal Girl: Mree in Echoes Podcast.
Hear Mree interviewed in the Echoes Podcast. Mree isn’t your typical singer song-writer. Even though she started out playing acoustic guitar in her bedroom and recording alt-rock songs on YouTube, she’s evolved her sound into something closer to dream pop than folk, embracing sounds from the New Age, Alt-Rock and ambient into a music that…
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Echoes 24 Years Ago Today!
In 1989 the World Wide Web was invented The Berlin Wall fell. The Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Denmark legalized civil unions between same-sex couples They were all ahead of the curve. And so was Echoes which launched on this day 24 years ago, on October 2, 1989 Today on Echoes, you’ll hear…