Echoes CD of the Month: High Remembrance, by Unwed Sailor.
Formed in the late 1990s, Unwed Sailor create a distinctive, bass-led instrumental music with post-rock dynamics that can shift from driving grooves to rapturous melodicism. On their latest album, High Remembrance, they lean toward the melodic side. At the center is Jonathan Ford, using bass guitar as both the music’s melodic voice and rhythmic engine. His work carries echoes of new wave artists like The Cure and New Order, but it also has a distinctly American character: wide-open, cinematic expanses that feel like driving through a southwest highway at 90 miles an hour, then veering off the road toward a desert horizon. It’s a fitting Echoes CD of the Month for this semiquincentennial July.
Read John Diliberto’s Review here.
| Start Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| Echoes Program 26-26A | |||
| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:01:00 | Hammock | We Close Our Eyes So We Can See | The Second Coming Was a Moonrise |
| 0:06:00 | Unwed Sailor | Truest Sentence | High Remembrance |
| 0:11:10 | Arlo Parks | Heaven | Ambiguous Desire |
| 0:15:27 | Harald Grosskopf | Flow | Glitches Brew |
| 0:22:58 | Boards of Canada | Arena Americanada | Inferno |
| 0:29:30 | Message to Bears | Half Light (excerpt) | Tired Eyes Waking Hearts |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | Unwed Sailor | Cinnamon | High Remembrance |
| 0:33:23 | Widowspeak | Wondering | Roses |
| 0:37:33 | Byron Metcalf & Erik Wøllo | The Route of the Ascendant | Spanned Times |
| 0:46:19 | Break | ||
| 0:47:08 | KARYYN | FWD | Physics Universal Love Language (PULL) |
| 0:51:38 | Unwed Sailor | High Remembrance | High Remembrance |
| 0:59:00 | Lena Natalia | Afternoon in Oslo (excerpt) | The Time Before Us |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | Banco De Gaia | Farewell Ferengistan | Farewell Ferengistan |
| 1:06:00 | Unwed Sailor | Three Jewels | High Remembrance |
| 1:11:31 | David Helpling and Scott Reich | Breath of a Flower | Through the Thought Horizon |
| 1:17:29 | Gem Club | Tend | Emerald Press |
| 1:21:03 | Tori Amos | Veins | In Times of Dragons |
| 1:24:57 | mRn | Petra Awaiting | Secret Place |
| 1:29:30 | Shambhu | Resilience (excerpt) | Lotus Dreams |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | Michael Whalen | Soft Geometry | Standing Near Infinity |
| 1:36:27 | Eartheater | Crown Jewel | Crown Jewel (Single) |
| 1:40:20 | Unwed Sailor | Gingerman | High Remembrance |
| 1:45:55 | Break | ||
| 1:46:34 | Thomas Lemmer | In the Quiet of What Was | DREAMSCAPES II |
| 1:48:24 | Kinobe | Nothing Else Exists | Open Your Mind |
| 1:52:12 | Suzanne Perry | Sally’s Song (from the Nightmare Before Christmas) | Sally’s Song (Single) |
| 1:54:12 | Unwed Sailor | West Coast Prism | High Remembrance |
ECHOES PRESENTS THE AMERICAN ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION
25 ELECTRONIC ARTISTS FOR THE 250TH SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL
Electronics have been on the leading edge of the American music scene since the 1960s. Selecting one artist for each of the 25 decades of American independence, we plug into American pioneers of electronic sound: from Morton Subotnick and Wendy Carlos through Steve Roach and Patrick O’Hearn, and into the 21st century with Derrick May, Moby and Bluetech.
When the history of American music is written, electronic music will stand as one of the defining movements of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Many of its essential instruments were created here: Moog, Buchla, ARP and Oberheim. And some of its most transformative sounds emerged in America. Bebe and Louis Barron’s score for Forbidden Planet, Wendy Carlos’s Switched-On Bach, Terry Riley’s looping-keyboard opus A Rainbow in Curved Air, Moby’s Play, Laurie Anderson’s “O Superman,” and BT’s This Binary Universe were landmark works that influenced new directions in American music. It isn’t country, pop, rap or disco. It is something new—still evolving. We cycle through 25 works from 25 artists in The American Electronic Revolution.
| Start Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| Echoes Program 26-26B | |||
| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:01:00 | Tonto’s Expanding Head Band | Timewhys | Tonto Rides Again |
| 0:06:00 | Michael Stearns | In the Beginning… | Planetary Unfolding (2022 Remaster) |
| 0:13:45 | Derrick May | Strings of Life | Innovator |
| 0:19:08 | Silver Apples | Oscillations | Silver Apples: Contact |
| 0:21:52 | Laurie Anderson | Speak My Language | Bright Red |
| 0:24:38 | ODESZA | A Moment Apart | A Moment Apart |
| 0:29:30 | Deepspace | High Precision Hydrocleansing-Protocols (excerpt) | Water Planets |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | Bluetech | The Black Sky | Spacehop Chronicles 2 |
| 0:35:41 | Richard Burmer | Ave Pladaelio | Mosaic |
| 0:40:10 | Moby | Morningside | All Visible Objects |
| 0:45:30 | Louis & Bebe Barron | Ancient Krell Music | Forbidden Planet: Original Soundtrack |
| 0:46:28 | break | ||
| 0:48:22 | David Borden | Enfield in Winter | Music for Amplified Keyboard Instruments |
| 0:54:38 | Suzanne Ciani | Inverness | History of my Heart |
| 0:59:00 | Adrian Sherwood | The Collapse of Everythingng (excerpt) | The Collapse of Everything |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | Kevin Braheny | Til You Get There | Secret Rooms |
| 1:06:00 | Terry Riley | A Rainbow in Curved Air | A Rainbow in Curved Air |
| 1:13:11 | Jon Hassell | Time And Place | Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street |
| 1:16:46 | Steve Roach | The Continent | Dreamtime Return |
| 1:21:10 | Wendy Carlos | Beauty in the Beast | Beauty in the Beast |
| 1:24:36 | Patrick O’Hearn | Sacrifice | Indigo |
| 1:29:30 | Felsman & Tiley | Kind (excerpt) | Protomensch |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | Ben Neill | Nefasphere (with Mikael Seifu) | Amalgam Sphere |
| 1:33:36 | Morton Subotnick | Silver Apples of the Moon | Silver Apples of the Moon: The Wild Bull |
| 1:36:30 | BT | Childhood Montage | Monster (OST) |
| 1:40:12 | Mark Isham | A Really Good Cloak | Crash |
| 1:43:36 | Rena Jones | Emergence | Allegories |
| 1:48:25 | BREAK | ||
| 1:50:13 | Robert Rich | Lifeblood | Propagation |
| 1:54:44 | Synergy | Ancestors | Audion |