A Space Musician Takes The Final Voyage: Mark Dwane Remembered on Echoes
On the next Echoes, we remember Mark Dwane. Mark Dwane has been a fixture on Echoes since we first launched 36 years ago. He released his debut album, Monuments of Mars in 1988 and has continued through some 25 records to carve out a space of melodic electronics, all of it generated from his guitar synthesizer. Sadly, Mark left the planet on July 24. I had just emailed him about three weeks before to inquire about his album, Aeons. I gave him the pro forma “How are you doing?” querry and got back the news that he had been in chemotherapy for the last 6 months and had now been given 6 months to live. Sadly, it was to be only a few weeks as pancreatic cancer took him. In this half hour, we remember Mark. I’ve got music coming up from four of his albums, and we’ll hear our 2010 feature with him where he explained his process and his obsession with all things mythical, fantastical and alien.
Read John Diliberto’s Tribute.
Read Mark Dwane’s 5 Best Albums