Loreena McKennitt’s album “Lost Souls” features all-new music with compositions spanning her 33-year career. It’s the Echoes CD of the Month for June.
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Echoes June CD of the Month: Loreena McKennitt
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Khruangbin’s Psychedelic Home Video
Khruangbin has a new video that matches their psychedelic style with vintage, double exposed film giving it a nostalgic home-movie feel.
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Echoes Podcast: Jeff Greinke’s Ambient Arizona
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On the Echoes Podcast, a pioneer of ambient chamber music, Jeff Greinke. He has a new album called Before Sunrise that uses the night skies of southern Arizona as an inspiration.
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Flashback 50: Quicksilver Messenger Service
Quicksilver Messenger Service released their first missive in May of 1968. Their self-titled debut is a signature work of the San Francisco psychedelic sound. We look back in a Flashback 50.
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Bluetech Ambient VR Video Star Trails
Bluetech soundtracks “Emergence VR,” a short film featuring Bluetech’s “Star Trails” off of his new Behind The Sky album. It’s a VR trip through a surreal world created by Julius Horsthuis.
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Echoes Podcast: Brian Eno at 70
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Brian Eno’s 70th Birthday is celebrated in the Echoes podcast with four interview features with Eno and associates like Robert Fripp, David Sylvian, Loop Guru and more.
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Podcast Special: Glenn Branca R.I.P.
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Composer Glenn Branca died on May 13. His “guitar armies” created a wall of distorted overtone layers with multiple guitars. We go back to an early interview in Echoes Podcast.
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Zone Music Reporter Music Awards 2018
Zone Music Awards 2018by John Diliberto 5/15/2018The ZMR Music Awards descended on New Orleans this year, a quiet counterpoint to the Bourbon Street mania happening a few blocks away. There were no Hurricanes or “yard-long” drinks at this event, nor beads tossed to woman flashing their assets. This is a more genteel, contemplative and sedate…
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Art Zoyd Violinist-Composer Gérard Hourbette R.I.P.
Gérard Hourbette, director and composer of the avant-garde progressive rock group, Art Zoyd has left the planet at the age of 64. He was an exploratory musician who left a vast body of work.
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Echoes Podcast: Paul Horn’s Inside at 50
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On the Echoes Podcast, a Flashback 50 to one of the seminal albums of the New Age, Paul Horn’s Inside. Recorded inside the Taj Mahal, it was a landmark release when it came out in 1968.