I’ve been listening to some beautifully serene music lately. Not beautiful in the pretty sense, but in the sweep of the music, and not serene in the New Age relaxing sense, but in the almost aggressive focus and attention to detail. It started recently with Steve Roach‘s Dynamic Stillness. The title itself speaks to that…
Month: May 2009
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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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Echo Location: Robert Moog’s 75th
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090520.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSEchoes celebrates Moog synthesizer inventor Robert Moog‘s 75th Birthday You can hear an audio version of this blog with music here. In the front room of his London home, Mark Shreeve of the English space band, Redshift and Arc, has a massive modular Moog system full of patch…
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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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Echo Location: Mark Dwane’s Electronic Guitar
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090513.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSMark Dwane travels to Other Worlds of guitar synthesis You can hear an audio version of this blog with Mark’s music here. Mark Dwane is a musician who has Progressive Rock in his DNA. Born in 1954, he was just the right age to be seduced by 70s…
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Echo Location: Wendy and Lisa’s Heroic Soundtracks
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090506.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFormer Prince divas Wendy & Lisa score the soundtrack for Heroes You can hear an audio version of this blog with music here. The theme to the TV series, Heroes might be the shortest title music on television right now. It was created by Lisa Coleman and Wendy…