Remembering David Parsons
Electronic artist David Parsons left the planet in February. He was a New Zealand composer who started recording at the dawn of the New Age in 1980 with his debut album, Sounds of the Mothership. Back then, you talked about him in the same breath as Steve Roach, Robert Rich and Kevin Braheny. He combined electronics with sitar and other world music elements in a unique electronic world fusion. He did it right up until his passing on February 15 this year. We’ll hear an hour of his music from Tibetan Plateau to Atmanaut.
Read John Diliberto’s Tribute to David Parsons
On the next Echoes, music from Erik Wøllo. It seems like only yesterday that Wøllo released his album Solastalgia, and it kind of was. It was an Echoes CD of the Month last November. And now he has new one, Where the River Widens. It’s inspired, once again, by his home in Norway. It was composed at a retreat to the village of Skabu. It sits in far northern Norway and while it’s not above the arctic circle, because it has the highest elevation in Norway, it often has sub-arctic temperatures. But Erik was there in the summer working on art projects like wood cutting. While there, he found time to loop up new music and it is an extremely sensitive and sublime release where he creates landscapes out of multiple guitars and synthesizers. John Diliberto takes us across the river on Echoes from PRX.
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