We’ve been waiting a while for new music by Ulrich Schnauss, which is one reason we were so behind Winterlight’s Hope Dies Last with it’s Schnaussian shoegaze moods. Schnauss reports a new direction and album is in the offing. Meanwhile, he’s completed a project with Mark Peters called “Balcony Sunset” that has the earmarks of…
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5 Best Ulrich Schnauss CDs (Minus-1)
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/v2s.c34.mwp.accessdomain.com/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-UlrichSchnauss.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSI usually use Five Best Albums for Icons of Echoes, but Ulrich Schnauss has only three proper albums, one remix collection and EPs. So this is The Five Best Ulrich Schnauss CDs (Minus-1). The thing is, each one is nearly perfection. Ulrich Schnauss is a German electronic artist…
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Carmen Rizzo & Huun Huur Tu: Electronica Throat Singing
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSTuvan throat Singers Huun Huur Tu get electrified by Carmen Rizzo. You can hear an audio version of this blog, with music, here. In a New York hotel room, Bapa Sayan is singing in a low guttural moan that sounds like gorillas gargling. He does this in a…
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Echo Location: Tosca’s Chillout Soliloquy
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090527.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSTosca turns down the beats and turns up the atmosphere on No Hassle. You can hear an audio version of this blog with Tosca music here. The Viennese duo called Tosca may take their name from the Puccini opera, but this plugged in pair doesn’t usually have romantic…
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From Miles in space to Jazz for the Deaf: Ben Neill and Mörglbl
Two distant jazz mutations from opposite directions when Ben Neill and Mörglbl hit Philadelphia. I caught two very disparate shows in Philadelphia this weekend, both drawing upon elements of jazz, but ultimately having little to do with jazz at all. First up was Ben Neill, performing at Saturday, May 16 at The Gatherings concert series. …
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Ozric Tentacles, Natural Born Chillers and YumYum Music
Ozric picks the fruit of The YumYum Tree & Natural Born Chillers Return Two slices of downtempo psychedelia have crossed over recently. Ozric Tentacles follows up their last studio album, The Floor Is Too Far Away with a new one called The YumYum Tree. It’s another foray of deeply electrified psychedelic journeys. Synthesizers pulse while…
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Echoes Top 25 for February: Erik Scott Tops List
Erik Scott‘s ambient bass album, Other Planets, tops Echoes Top 25 List for February. It was our February CD of the Month and if you happened to miss the many times we played it, you can catch up with our review. The Top 25 this month proves to be a more balanced affair than recent…
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Echoes Top 25 for January ’09: Kaya Project Tops
Kaya Project Tops our January Top 25. Kaya Project makes it’s way to the top, no surprise since it was our Echoes CD of the Month for January. Kaya Project’s Seb Taylor actually gets a double hit since his Hibernation album, Some Things Never Change, also made the list. But Kaya Project points to a…
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Echo Location: Jon Hassell Drops His Clothes
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090121.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS Jon Hassell returns with first US tour in 20 years and new CD You can hear an audio version of this blog, with music. Listen to records by Björk, Baaba Maal, Talking Heads, Ani DiFranco, Ry Cooder, or K.D. Lang, and you’ll hear the trumpet of Jon…
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Echo Location: Kaya Project’s And So It Goes
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090107.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS Global ecstacy in a digital world from Kaya Project You can hear an audio version of this blog with music. Echo Location: Kaya Project Seb Taylor started out as a Death Metal and Thrash guitarist, but you’d never know that from his many recording personas, among them,…