The ZMR Music Rewards are handed out each year by the Zone Music Reporter’s roster of DJs playing New Age, ambient and electronic music. We’ll hear the results with artists from the Echoes galaxy who won.
Jeff Oster has taken his trumpet and flugelhorn into New Age and ambient directions over the years. On his new album, Next, he explores some ambient jazz. He talks about tone, funk and ambience on Echoes.
Angela Sheik is a compelling 21st century singer-songwriter who doesn’t just sit at a piano or play a guitar but with live looping creates her own elaborate orchestrations using those instruments plus autoharp, theremin, flute and whatever else she can get her hands on.
It’s a slow Flow Friday with new music from Jeff Oster’s Next, Three Fields’ Home and David Franklin’s Playing with Shadows. Get ready for an all instrumental soundscape.
Nels Cline is best known as the guitarist with Wilco, but long before he joined that band he had a burgeoning solo career as a an outside jazz guitarist.
Angela Sheik is a compelling 21st century singer-songwriter who doesn’t just sit at a piano or play a guitar but with live looping creates her own elaborate orchestrations using those instruments plus autoharp, theremin, flute and whatever else she can get her hands on.