Swedish electronic musicians Johann Agebjörn and Mikael Ögren take a trip to the Russian-Finish border and come back with an album of evocative tone poems, We Never Came to the White Sea.
Jean-Michel Jarre Leads Echoes April Top 25 with Oxygene Trilogy, culminating 40 years of electronic music that inspired artists here like Erik Wøllo and Delia Derbyshire Appr’n Society.
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Harmonica isn’t the sound heard in ambient music, but on The Recognition, Art Patience casts his harmonica out on desert echoes and ambient spaces. He talks about it in Echoes Podcast.
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The Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society is less of a fan club and more of an electronic, deep ambient duo with Garry Hughes of Bombay Dub Orchestra and Harvey Jones.
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In the Echoes Podcast, composer and keyboardist Michael Whalen talks about how to go to sleep and the music of his latest album, Dream Cycle. It’s not the music of slumber.
Echoes March Top 25 includes the CD of the Month, Daniel Voth’s Transcendance, as well as Mike Oldfield’s Return to Ommadawn, Lisa Hannigan’s At Swim and Bonobo’s Migration.
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Morton Subotnick was a pioneer of electronic music. His 1967 album, Silver Apples of the Moon, signaled a new way of making music that only used electronics. He talks about the early days of electronic music in the Echoes Podcast.
Written by John Diliberto on April 3, 2017 It’s pretty rare that an artist could take three albums spanning 40 years, put them together, and have them sound like a coherent whole, as if it was the plan all along for them to sit together as a single epic work. But French electronic artist Jean-Michel…
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We talk to author Will Romano about his book Close to the Edge: How Yes’s Masterpiece Defined Prog Rock. Comments come from Jon Anderson, Bill Bruford and artist Roger Dean.
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We look back on the career of trumpeter/composer Jon Hassell from through his Fourth World music permutations with interviews from Hassell, Brian Eno, and more in the Echoes Podcast.