On the next Echoes we celebrate Klaus Schulze’s Blackdance. Released in 1974, it was Schulze’s 3rd release and the first to see him moving in the direction of music for which he’s best known.
Settle in for another night of Long Tracks on Echoes. We’re going to hear a modular exploration from Steve Roach, an ambient track by Pantha Du Prince, and something from Lisa BellaDonna.
Head into psychedelic space on the 50th anniversary of Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra. This is a seminal album that essentially launched the whole sequencer school of electronics.
New music by Trentemøller. His latest release takes a less electronic turn and he has a new singer, Disa Jakobs from Iceland. The album is Dreamweaver. We weave your dreams on Echoes.
On the next Echoes, Golden Blue, a husband and wife duo making an intoxicating dream pop. We’ll also hear music from New Zealand’s Melissa Cox who one magazine calls, “medieval hip-hop.”
We go on a quest with David Arkenstone. He returns to fantasy themes and epic orchestrations on his latest release, Quest for the Runestone. Join us in the land of myth on Echoes.
Cassettes are having a revival and Echoes’s John Diliberto has a lot of them, but it’s not a technology he wants to revisit. But he does like the memories they bring him..
We have one conversation with a trio that has released an album called Seven Conversations. They are Jeff Oster, Vin Downes and Tom Eaton. We talk to them about improvising in ambient space.
Take Sigur Ros, add strings and a more classical sensibility, and you get Limina. By day, Tyler Durham works on film scores. At night he fires up his virtual orchestra as Limina.
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.