Peter Gabriel has released his first new song in 3 years. It’s a poetic homage to Muhammed Ali and the triumph of the spirit, It’s also a powerful world music tribal stomp.
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Peter Gabriel’s Homage to Ali
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SHELfest
Serene four-part harmonies, deep introspective songs and wonderful musicianship when the sister quartet SHELL plays live in the Philadelphia area. They have a video for their haunting cover of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.”
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CD of the Month June 2016: Aukai
The music of Aukai is like the lost sound of an ancient and refined civilization. It’s both familiar and new, the sound of ancestral spirits touched by a modern hand. It’s a project of Markus Sieber from the duo, Mirabai Ceiba.
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Harold Budd at 80
Harold Budd is a legend in the ambient world. His early 1980 albums with Brian Eno, The Plateaux of Mirror and The Pearl, are signposts of ambient music. Now he’s turned 80.
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Engineer Jack Miller RIP.
Jack Miller was an engineer whose career spanned from Duane Eddy to R. Carlos Nakai. He died on May 12th. We remember him on Echoes.
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Zone Music Awards Show
The Zone Music Awards is the only place that acknowledges New Age, Ambient, Electronic, Solo Piano and World Fusion, all in one place. We take a look at this years ceremony which took place on May 7 in New Orleans with artists like Jeff Oster, Paul Avgerinos, Eric Scott and many more.
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Isao Tomita 1932-2016 RIP
Isao Tomita left the planet on May 5. I interviewed him in 1992 in his Tokyo Studio. I look back at this early electronic music explorer who took the classics into space
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May CD of the Month 2016: Hammock’s Everything and Nothing
Iconic ambient guitar band Hammock ups the rhythm to explore tumultuous emotions and salvation on Everything and Nothing, The Echoes May CD of teh Month
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Big Ears 2016
Drones, lconic alt-rock group out of depth. More drones. Charming elders of the old vanguard. A master of pink noise and symphonic expanse. Drones. Celtic aires. Gothic metal. Only at the 2016 Big Ears Festival.
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April 2016 CD of the Month: All India Radio’s The Slow Light.
All India Radio is the ambient rock project of Australia’s Martin Kennedy. With his 10th album, The Slow Light, he’s created a journey of ambient guitar and slow burn moods.