It's Specials Week on Echoes with soundscapes of Gothic Chant Fusions, A Wicked Game Meditation, New Age Ancient and Modern and a Tim Blake Interview.
We’ve got a lot of special shows for you in the next few weeks. We’ll have a week of Specials focusing on different music sounds, then a week of our favorite interviews form the past year and finally, a week of Slow Flow Echoes.
On Monday 8/5
Tim Blake’s Crystal Electronics
Electronic artist Tim Blake was there at the beginning, playing synth for space rockers Gong and Hawkwind and launching his own project of synthesizers and lasers, Crystal Machine. Now a triple CD box of his first three albums has been released as Crystal Presence. It includes his albums, Crystal Machine, Blake’s New Jerusalem and Magick. John Diliberto gets in the teapot with Tim Blake on Echoes.
On Tuesday 8/6
New Age Ancient & Modern
Prompted by the January death of New Age pioneer Iasos in January, Echoes takes a spin through some of the earliest new age music as well as some of its more recent exponents. This isn’t your neo-classical, parlor piano, sweet electronic sound, but something deeper.
On Wednesday 8/7
Angels Descend
Angels Descend when we hear heavenly music as the spirits of angels fly through the soundscape with music from Jane Siberry, Iasos, Liminal Drifter and more heavenly bodies.
On Thursday 8/8
A Wicked Game Meditation
Chris Isaak’s single, “Wicked Game”, was released 35 years ago in 1989. This sound has influenced pop music, ambient country and more. Once you hear this, you’ll be hearing the chord sequence of this song everywhere.
On Friday 8/9
World of Chant
From 11th century nun Abbess Hildegard von Bingen to contemporary musicians exploring a medieval sound, we’ll hear voices descending from the heavens and tuning the spirit. This music was big in the 1990s and with albums like Kevin Keller’s Evensong an Echoes CD of the Month last October, a new generation is tapping ancient sounds.