On her third album, Danish singer Agnes Obel creates a darkly introspective work that draws on themes of privacy and surveillance. It’s called Citizen of Glass.
It’s ghosts, goblins, witches and warlocks on a trip to the dark side of Echoes. A lot of musicians have been tapping the mystical for imagery lately, among them Radiohead, Banco de Gaia, Still Corners, Delerium and Marissa Nadler.
On the next Echoes, Wax Tailor takes your head off with a new album of sliced and diced samples called By Any Beats Necessary. We’ll also hear a physician who is a singer.
Before synthesizers and computers in pop music there was Silver Apples, a duo that that used surplus electronics and tribal drums to create a psychedelic electronic pop in 1968. Moby cites them as the first electronic pop group.
Yoga Records label owner Douglas McGowan has set out to re-examine New Age music from its Indie, experimental roots. He talks about his compilations I Am the Center and The Microcosm on Echoes.
Syrinx was an obscure Canadian band making an electronic space music a few years before Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze’s seminal works. They released to albums in 1970 and 1971 and then faded away.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, it’s new music by guitar synthesist Mark Dwane and former Tangerine Dream member Paul Haslinger and his score to Halt and Catch Fire.