The midsummer of 2008 has been a trip down Memory Lane for live concerts. In the last two weeks, I’ve seen, or will be seeing, Alex De Grassi, Return to Forever, King Crimson and Manuel Göttsching/Ashra , all acts who came to their greatest renown in the 1970s. It got me wondering about our penchant…
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Echo Location: Ozric Tentacles
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20080806.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe program director of an Echoes affiliate asked, “Are those guys still around?” But Ozric Tentacles are still taking trips to the center of your mind. (You can hear an audio version of this Echo Location, with music.) Guitarist Ed Wynne was only born in 1961, but he…
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Echoes Top 25 for July: Marconi Union first Download recording to crack Top 5
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20080730.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAmbient chamber music still dominates the Echoes Top 25 for August, but for the first time, a download only album cracks the the Echoes Top 5. That CD is the purely ambient A Lost Connection by Marconi Union. Their album, Distance, from 3 years ago was among our…
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Echo Location: Ottmar Liebert’s The Scent of Light-Echoes August CD of the Month
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20080730.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSNouveau Flamenco creator goes wide-screen on The Scent of Light (You can hear an audio version of this Echo Location with music.) Ottmar Liebert would be the last person to call his music straight-up flamenco. His rhythmic strumming interspersed with intricate finger picking and Spanish rhythms comes from that…
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Echo Location: The Penguin Cafe Orchestra
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20080723.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe Penguin Cafe Orchestra along with Harold Budd, virtually created the Ambient Chamber Music genre. Their CDs have just been re-released. In this Echo Location we return to a 1988 interview with PCO founder, the late-Simon Jeffes. You can hear an audio version of this blog with music…
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An Echo Location: Alu’s Cosmic Cabaret
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20080716.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe latest singer to carry the torch of Kate Bush into new terrain is named Alu [You can also hear an Audio Version of this Blog, with Alu’s music] Ziggy Stardust came from Mars, Sun Ra came from Saturn. Alu isn’t from another planet, but sometimes she wants…
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Deep Space Electronica from Ultimae label: Aes Dana & Solar Fields
The French Ultimae label produces high gloss electronic music and high gloss packaging, with sounds that head into deep ambient space. Echoes listeners will hear an interview with Aes Dana and Solar Fields a.k.a. Vincent Villuis and Magnus Birgesson on Monday, July 14. They produce a brand of ambient music that has its roots in…
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Echo Location: Tangled up in Strings-California Guitar Trio & David Pritchard
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20080709.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe California Guitar Trio and David Pritchard are acoustic fingerstyle players who aren’t taking the lonley solo route. You can also hear an Audio version of this Echo Location, with music. If you think one acoustic guitar is good, there are some musicians who think 2, 3 or 4…
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Ambient Chamber Music Reigns on Echoes Top 25 for June
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20080528.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAmbient Chamber music dominates top airplay at Echoes in June. We’ve been tracking ambient chamber music since the beginning of Echoes when it was mostly Tim Story, David Darling and Kevin Keller, but the subgenre has exploded, in an ambient chamber music way, that is, gently and without…
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Beck, James Blunt and Elliott Smith producer Tom Rothrock unleashes his Americana Electronica.
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20080702.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSI’ve been beating the drum for Tom Rothrock‘s music for about a year and a half now, ever since I heard his debut album, Resonator. It’s an album of electric slide guitar and dobro married to strings and rhythm loops that conjure up an atmosphere that’s palpable. I’ve…