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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
Vangelis is an icon of electronic music and his influence remains pervasive. On his 75th Birthday, we select 10 of his Essential CDs that represent the breadth of this dynamic composer.
Chuck Van Zyl is a veteran of the Philly electronic music scene and the host of WXPN’s Star’s End who creates his spacescapes live in the moment. Watch him do it in this fascinating video.
Composer Nils Frahm creates a melodically layered and rhythmically driven live performance that’s a meeting of Tangerine Dream, minimalism and ambient moods at Union Transfer in Philadelphia.
Sheila Chandra was one of the greatest voices of our generation. Her albums on Real World were signposts of global music in the 1990s. She can’t sing anymore, but her mind is still at work.