James Hood, the man who was once the drummer for the British-American rock band The Pretenders is now creating complex and engaging electronic music featuring the Hang drum.
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James Hood’s Mesmerizing New Animal Video
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Chuck van Zyl: Spontaneous Spacemusic, live on Echoes.
Watch electronic veteran Chuck van Zyl pilot his array of analog synthesizer modules, performing spontaneous space music, live in real-time, with NO computers, on Echoes.
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Florence and the Machine Big God Video
Florence and the Machine is known for their haunting, ethereal music, and their new song “Big God” is no exception. Dramatic and emotional, the song’s video features mesmerizing choreography.
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Khruangbin’s Psychedelic Home Video
Khruangbin has a new video that matches their psychedelic style with vintage, double exposed film giving it a nostalgic home-movie feel.
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Flashback 50: Quicksilver Messenger Service
Quicksilver Messenger Service released their first missive in May of 1968. Their self-titled debut is a signature work of the San Francisco psychedelic sound. We look back in a Flashback 50.
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Bluetech Ambient VR Video Star Trails
Bluetech soundtracks “Emergence VR,” a short film featuring Bluetech’s “Star Trails” off of his new Behind The Sky album. It’s a VR trip through a surreal world created by Julius Horsthuis.
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Markus Guentner Journeys through Space with “Empire”
Markus Guentner’s “Empire” takes listeners on an ambient journey through mankind’s relationship with the galaxies. The track Refraction combines mysterious drones with ethereal visuals.
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Zone Music Reporter Music Awards 2018
Zone Music Awards 2018by John Diliberto 5/15/2018The ZMR Music Awards descended on New Orleans this year, a quiet counterpoint to the Bourbon Street mania happening a few blocks away. There were no Hurricanes or “yard-long” drinks at this event, nor beads tossed to woman flashing their assets. This is a more genteel, contemplative and sedate…
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Art Zoyd Violinist-Composer Gérard Hourbette R.I.P.
Gérard Hourbette, director and composer of the avant-garde progressive rock group, Art Zoyd has left the planet at the age of 64. He was an exploratory musician who left a vast body of work.
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Holger Czukay-Five Essential Albums
Holger Czukay was a music renegade who studied with Stockhausen, co-founded the German rock group Can, and pioneered sampling before samplers influencing a generation of artists.