Johan Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren’s electronic road trip, We Never Came to the White Sea leads Echoes May Top 25 followed by the airy pop of Wilsen and the deep ambient blues of Maggie Koerner.
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Echoes Top 25 for May 2017: Space, Blues & Dreams
Category: Program Highlights
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Suzanne Ciani Returns to Electronic Music
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After abandoning synthesizers for many years, Suzanne Ciani has returned to electronic music, creating improvisations on her first electronic instrument, the Buchla Modular Synthesizer.
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Echoes Podcast: Goldfrapp Mystic Electronics.
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Goldfrapp is the English dreampop band of Alison Goldfrapp & Will Gregory. On Silver Eye, they explore themes of ritual, magic and social politics. We talk to them in the Echoes Podcast.
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Echoes Podcast: From Indian Lakes
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From Indian Lakes is the name of a dream-pop band from Indian Lakes via Brooklyn. Headed by Joey Vannucchi, he takes us on his music odyssey in a wide-ranging interview.
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Delia Derbyshire’s 80th Birthday in Echoes Podcast.
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She created the theme for Doctor Who, tripped out with the White Noise, and inspired a few generations of British electronic musicians to plug in. Delia Derbyshire remembered in Echoes Podcast
CD of the Month
May CD of the Month: Johann Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren
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.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for April 2017: Jean-Michael Jarre on Top
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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Echoes Podcast: Art Patience’s Ambient Harmonica
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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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Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society 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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Michael Whalen Sleeps and Dreams in Echoes Podcast
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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.