We open fall with an autumnal CD of the Month, the debut album by Slow Meadow.
Playlists
Monday, October 5th, 2015-Echoes Program 1540A
Tag: electronic
Reviews & Commentary
Kraftwerk Live at Electric Factory 10-2-2015
One of the icons of electronic music are on another leg of their endless swansong tour. They haven’t produced an album in 12 years, yet they are selling out venues across the country for an audience hungry for the original avatars of electro-pop.
Interview Podcast
Steven Halpern in the Echoes Podcast
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Steven Halpern released his first album of electric piano modalities, Spectrum Suite, in 1975. That makes 2015 his 40th anniversary as a recording artist. We talk to Halpern about the evolution of his music from the “anti-frantic alternative” to his concepts of sound healing.
Playlists
Weekend, October 3rd & 4th, 2015-Echoes Program 1539A
Briana Marela sings heavenly songs of unconditional love, rendering them in looping stacked voices. Her new album, All Around Us, is named after a children’s book and her music has that sense of innocence, awe and exploration. She sings live on Echoes.
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Thursday, October 1st, 2015-Echoes Program 1539D
Ólafur Arnalds is one of the signature composers of ambient chamber music, and in the last year, he’s released an album based on the compositions of Chopin, scored BBC TV series, Broadchurch and recorded an all electronic project as Kiasmos.
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Monday, September 28th, 2015-Echoes Program 1539A
Briana Marela sings heavenly songs of unconditional love, rendering them in looping stacked voices. Her new album, All Around Us, is named after a children’s book and her music has that sense of innocence, awe and exploration. She sings live on Echoes.
Interview Podcast
Slow Meadow in the Echoes Podcast
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Slow Meadow is the performance name of Matt Kidd who has collaborated with the band Hammock, but has created his own approach to ambient chamber music. We walk through the fields of Matt Kidd’s Slow Meadow.
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015-Echoes Program 1538C
Echoes celebrates the arrival of fall with a soundscape of autumnal moods and melancholy ambiences. These shows tend to take on a more pastoral acoustic tone and there will be plenty of that, but also some electronic tone poems and ambient excursions. Turn your fall foliage into a lightshow with an Echoes Autumnal Equinoxe
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Michael Spriggs in the Echoes Podcast
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Michael Spriggs is an A-list session guitarist in Music City who has played on, and written, dozens of country hits. But when he goes home, he plugs in to a different sound, turning country into Ambient Americana, with touches of Celtic music.
Echoes Online, Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes: Falling Leaves
An uninterrupted six-hour soundscape for the coming of Autumn. It features music from George Winston, Sumner McKane, Max Richter, Patrick O’Hearn, and many more.