Weekend, May 3-4, 2025 – Programs 2517A & 2517B

Electronic History - Synergy at 50: The Echoes Interview

Synergy

It was 50 years ago that the album, Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra by Synergy was released. It was a project by Larry Fast, and there were no guitars or drums on the album, just synthesizers creating epic, orchestral tracks that still resonate today. Fast worked with Peter Gabriel extensively in the 1970s and 80s and was responsible for much of the innovative sound of the singer’s seminal 3rd and 4th albums.   His Audion label, named for one of his albums brought a lot of great electronic music to the fore. John Diliberto takes a trip in electronic time with Larry Fast of Synergy, as well as Marty Scott, founder of Jem and Passport Records, and veteran electronic artist Jonn Serrie.  

Weekend, May 3-4, 2025 – Echoes Program 2517A
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Start Time

Group Name

Song Name

Album Name

First Half Hour

0:01:00 Synergy (featuring Larry Fast) Ancestors Audion
0:06:00 Colin Rayment Nothing But the Umbra Penumbra
0:11:20 Sun’s Signature Bluedusk Sun’s Signature (EP)
0:16:09 James Asher and Ayako Tanaka Joyous Return From Bud to Bloom
0:19:56 Rena Jones & Kilo Watts Time Will Heal (feat. Sophie Barker)(Inspired Flight Remix) Caesura Remixes
0:23:57 Trovaire Oh How Lovely Stonefruit Sessions

Second Half Hour

0:30:00 Interview: Larry Fast – 50th Anniversary of Synergy’s Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra
0:47:23 Synergy (featuring Larry Fast) Legacy Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra

Third Half Hour

1:01:00 Robert Rich Verbena Ylang
1:06:00 MIEN Mirror MIIEN
1:10:25 Steve Roach Conquest Empetus
1:16:22 Ruth Radelet/Nat Walker/Adam Miller The Veil The Lost Records: Bloom and Rage
1:21:43 Inal Bilsel A Night at the Cloudtop Imaginarium Once Upon a Cloudtop Meadow

Fourth Half Hour

1:30:00 Brian Fechino This Empty Room A Safe Place
1:34:30 Jean-Michel Jarre Équinoxe Part 3 Équinoxe
1:39:33 Jean-Michel Jarre Équinoxe Part 4 Équinoxe
1:45:57 break
1:46:32 Ancient Future Spirit of Nirvana Purple Nirvana
1:52:05 Jami Sieber Benediction Unspoken

Marcator - Panaroma

On the next Echoes, music from Marcator. He is a German guitarist who has been self-releasing his own music for years but is now signed to the Prudence label. His new album is a suite of ambient Americana tracks called PanAroma. That’s not a misstatement. It’s PanAroma. John Diliberto smells it on Echoes from PRX.

Weekend, May 3-4, 2025 – Echoes Program 2517B
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Start Time

Group Name

Song Name

Album Name

First Half Hour

0:01:00 David Pritchard Resin Evanescent
0:06:00 Marcator Lone Rider PanAroma
0:10:26 Steve Hackett Spectral Mornings Spectral Mornings
0:16:40 Conjure One Centre of the Sun (Solarstone Chilled-Out Remix) Centre of the Sun
0:22:37 AeTopus Why Not Now Iota

Second Half Hour

0:30:00 Aeseaes Algorhythm Opia
0:33:23 Klaus Schulze Voyage Encore Bon Voyage (Live Audimax Hamburg 1981)
0:47:53 Co.LeGa Absence of Doubts Nobody Goes to Heaven
0:51:06 Sylvain Carel The Queen with Green Eyes Atlantide II: Testament

Third Half Hour

1:01:00 Tor Sunyata Blue Book
1:06:00 Beirut Ghost Train A Study of Losses
1:09:24 David Helpling &  Eric The Taylor The Space Between Atoms The Precious Dark
1:18:35 Uh Nostos Plemora

Fourth Half Hour

1:30:00 Marcator Deepest Mind PanAroma
1:33:11 The Royal Arctic Institute He Died Fighting in Spain The Royal Arctic Institute
1:36:37 Still Corners The Ship Dreamtalk
1:42:03 Olafur Arnalds &  Loreen Opening Sages
1:48:01 Quiet Resonance Downgrade Downshift

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