by John Diliberto 9/10/2011 A Produce A.K.A. Barry Craig Passes Barry Craig passed away on September 4, 2011. You may not have known him by that name, but you might be familiar with the music he produced over the last two and a half decades as A Produce. He was featured heavily on Echoes, especially…
Hear Jeff Oster interviewed tonight 02/01/2012 on Echoes. It’s Ambient Electronica Lounge Sounds from Horn Player Jeff Oster As Echoes September CD of the Month Until recently, you didn’t hear much trumpet outside of jazz in contemporary music. There’s Jon Hassell, Mark Isham and you’re pretty much done. But lately there’s been a cavalcade of…
Atomic Skunk Leads the Echoes Top 25 for August. Alchemy by Atomic Skunk wafted to the top of our Echoes Top 25, no surprise since it was our CD of the Month. You can read a review and hear tracks from this entrancing album of electronica exotica. August was a bit of an anomaly in…
England’s most creative synthesist, Ian Boddy, releases free collection from his DiN Label I get offers for a lot of free music downloads at Echoes, most of them from electronic musicians. In fact, you’ll find one near the top of the EchoesFans wall on Facebook. And for me, most of them don’t get beyond the…
Progressive Rock Tour in a Psychedelic Haze For those of you still suffering Progressive Rock withdrawal with the cancellation of this summer’s Nearfest Festival, you can get a temporary fix with the Space Rock Invasion Tour. This little caravan brings together a trio of classic progressive rock artists with psychedelic roots, including Nektar, Brainticket, and…
Even in modern arts circles, umbrage is apparently easy to come by. That seems to be the case with Steve Reich whose forthcoming album, WTC 9/11, has created such an imbroglio that the usually cantankerous and self-assured composer has pulled the cover, an arresting and dramatic photograph by Masatomo Kuriya of a plane flying into…
There’s more of Echoes at Moogfest 2011 with Brian Eno appearing with his 77 Million Paintings exhibit and a lecture. Press Release below: MOOGFEST 2011 ANNOUNCES BRIAN ENO PROJECTS BRIAN ENO’S 77 MILLION PAINTINGS “VISUAL MUSIC” INSTALLATION TO OPEN DURING MOOGFEST IN ITS FIRST US EXHIBITON OUTSIDE OF WEST COAST ENO TO ALSO PRESENT “ILLUSTRATED…
Conrad Schnitzler, a founding member of both Tangerine Dream and Cluster has passed at the age of 74. Schnitzler was one of the true conceptualists of electronic music . He was a member of Tangerine Dream on on their debut album, Electronic Meditation and founded Kluster with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. They switched their…
Atomic Skunk turns music into Echoes CD of the Month Gold with Alchemy. You can hear a special show featuring Atomic Skunk’s Alchemy tonight on Echoes. Obvious jokes about the name aside, Rich Brodsky, recording as Atomic Skunk, has with each successive album been developing his own voice, one that merges influences from The Grateful…
A thread in the Progressive Ears Forum, got me thinking again about Tonto’s Expanding Headband, the pioneering electronic band that preceded Kraftwerk, Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream and Schulz Klaus by a few years in creating a sequencer driven music. It made me realize that this is the 40th Anniversary of their first album, Zero Time. …