The Zone Music Awards honor electronic, ambient, new age and contemporary instrumental music. They just held their annual awards show in New Orleans. John Diliberto zones in on the winners.
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Zone Music Awards 2017
Category: Reviews & Commentary
Reviews & Commentary
Suzanne Ciani Wins Moog Innovation Award
The 2017 Moog Innovation Award will be presented to Suzanne Ciani at Moogfest 2017, the annual music, art and technology festival in Durham, North Carolina. She’s profiled Monday, May 22 on Echoes
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Offa Rex – The Queen of Hearts Video
The Decemberists & Olivia Chaney are both steeped in folk traditions. They take it in a trippy rock direction on a new album “The Queen of Hearts.” They’ve just released a video for title track
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Fifty Year Flashback: Country Joe & the Fish
Country Joe and the Fish’s debut, Electric Music for the Mind and Body, remains a defining artifacts of the psychedelic era. It turns 50 on May 11, still tripping after all these years.
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Klaus Schulze’s Mirage at 40: An Electronic Milestone
While German space music was creating sequencer driven grooves Klaus Schulze created an ambient dreamscape, Mirage: A Winter Landscape in 1977. John Diliberto looks back.
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Allan Holdsworth R.I.P. A guitar Hero Goes to the Gods.
Allan Holdsworth was a fret-blazing guitarist who torched his way through a wide range of iconic progressive rock and fusion.
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Electronic Easter: David Borden and Mother Mallard
Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co. was the first modern electronic ensemble, playing live in 1970. That same year MMPMCo’s David Borden composed Easter in Robert Moog’s basement.
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The Velvet Underground and Nico at 50.
The Velvet Underground and Nico was a seminal album released in 1967. Even before the Summer of Love got going, VU took a darker approach to modern alternative culture with music that pioneered experimental rock.
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Moon Duo Video Trips Out Peter Max
The neo-psychedelic create a hallucinogenic animated video for the song, Lost in Light.
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Larry Coryell R.I.P.
Fusion giant Larry Coryell died on February 19, after playing his final gig at Iridium i New York City. John Diliberto remembers this important and influential musician.