by John Diliberto 9/10/2011 A Produce A.K.A. Barry Craig Passes Barry Craig passed away on September 4, 2011. You may not have known him by that name, but you might be familiar with the music he produced over the last two and a half decades as A Produce. He was featured heavily on Echoes, especially…
England’s most creative synthesist, Ian Boddy, releases free collection from his DiN Label I get offers for a lot of free music downloads at Echoes, most of them from electronic musicians. In fact, you’ll find one near the top of the EchoesFans wall on Facebook. And for me, most of them don’t get beyond the…
Progressive Rock Tour in a Psychedelic Haze For those of you still suffering Progressive Rock withdrawal with the cancellation of this summer’s Nearfest Festival, you can get a temporary fix with the Space Rock Invasion Tour. This little caravan brings together a trio of classic progressive rock artists with psychedelic roots, including Nektar, Brainticket, and…
Even in modern arts circles, umbrage is apparently easy to come by. That seems to be the case with Steve Reich whose forthcoming album, WTC 9/11, has created such an imbroglio that the usually cantankerous and self-assured composer has pulled the cover, an arresting and dramatic photograph by Masatomo Kuriya of a plane flying into…
There’s more of Echoes at Moogfest 2011 with Brian Eno appearing with his 77 Million Paintings exhibit and a lecture. Press Release below: MOOGFEST 2011 ANNOUNCES BRIAN ENO PROJECTS BRIAN ENO’S 77 MILLION PAINTINGS “VISUAL MUSIC” INSTALLATION TO OPEN DURING MOOGFEST IN ITS FIRST US EXHIBITON OUTSIDE OF WEST COAST ENO TO ALSO PRESENT “ILLUSTRATED…
Conrad Schnitzler, a founding member of both Tangerine Dream and Cluster has passed at the age of 74. Schnitzler was one of the true conceptualists of electronic music . He was a member of Tangerine Dream on on their debut album, Electronic Meditation and founded Kluster with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. They switched their…
A thread in the Progressive Ears Forum, got me thinking again about Tonto’s Expanding Headband, the pioneering electronic band that preceded Kraftwerk, Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream and Schulz Klaus by a few years in creating a sequencer driven music. It made me realize that this is the 40th Anniversary of their first album, Zero Time. …
SWELTER FOR YOUR MUSIC-VAN’s WARPED TOUR SWIMS IN RECORD CAMDEN HEAT There’s another world of music out there besides what you hear on Echoes, and I’m not talking about pop, classical, jazz, alternative or metal. It’s a world you probably won’t know about unless you’re in your pre-20s or have kids that age who try…
We’ve been waiting a while for new music by Ulrich Schnauss, which is one reason we were so behind Winterlight’s Hope Dies Last with it’s Schnaussian shoegaze moods. Schnauss reports a new direction and album is in the offing. Meanwhile, he’s completed a project with Mark Peters called “Balcony Sunset” that has the earmarks of…
It took 22 years, but I knew if I waited long enough New Age would become hip again. The Los Angeles Times has given its code of approval to a new wave of musicians like Animal Collective and Blues Control (Who have a tune called “Paul Winter’s Solstice”), who wave their New Age flags high.…