James Hood played drums with The Pretenders and recorded tripped out electronica as Moodswings, but his new passion is the Hang drum which looks like a flying saucer. He has a new double CD of Hang drum music called Pure Ceremony.
Ascendant is a duo of Californian musicians exploring the Big Bang, and other mysteries of the universe, through meticulously-crafted synthesizer soundscapes.
Ozric Tentacles is a band fueled by 60s psychedelia, initialized by 70s space rock and hyper-charged by 1980s rave culture.
On the next Echoes it’s film music siren, Lisbeth Scott in singer-songwriter mode and trumpeter Jeff Oster’s ambient jazz.
John Diliberto brings us another Slow Flow Echoes, an all instrumental soundscape to put you into your dreams.
In the world of space and ambient music, the German group called Cluster are eccentric wizards, musical alchemists who defied traditions, even the ones they helped create in 1970s Berlin. One half of this influential band, Dieter Moebius, died on July 20 at the age of 71. We listen back to an interview with Cluster from 1997, and hear some music from Cluster, Harmonia, and Cluster and Eno.
Ólafur Arnalds is one of the signature composers of ambient chamber music, and in the last year, he’s released an album based on the compositions of Chopin, scored BBC TV series, Broadchurch and recorded an all electronic project as Kiasmos.
Ozric Tentacles is a band fueled by 60s psychedelia, initialized by 70s space rock and hyper-charged by 1980s rave culture.
Árstíðir is another band out of Iceland, but this one has a more organic and acoustic sound with routes in the harmonies of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. They come in to Echoes to perform their music live.
On the next Echoes, new music out of Germany by Chandeen. They were a darkwave group but on their CD Forever and Ever, they create a dreampop sound for their electronic poetry.