Tonight on Echoes (01/06/2012) I’ll be interviewing an exciting new singer-songwriter, Johanna Cranitch who records as Johanna & the Dusty Floor. When I heard her new album, Northern Lights, I was immediately enticed by this Australian born singer, who first reminded me of Kate Bush. She even covers Bush’s “Cloudbusting.” But the more I listen,…
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Hype Machine Building for New Sigur Ros Live!
Okay, that’s a little cynical, but the whole leaking out of free tracks, tantalizing fans with little tidbits and generally treating us like greyhounds chasing rabbits is getting a bit tedious. But then this is the iconic, beyond hip band, Sigur Rós who have released some of the most idiosyncratic and uniguely intoxicating music in…
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A Produce is Transported R.I.P.
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…
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Ian Boddy’s Free Space.
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…
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Nektar, Brainticket & Huw Lloyd-Langton Space Out
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…
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Umbrage & Outrage for Reich CD Cover
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…
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Eno @ Moogfest 2011: But not playing
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…
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Conrad Schnizler Unplugs: R.I.P. 8/4/2011
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…
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Forty Years Since TONTO, the first Modern Electronic Group
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. …
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Van’s Warped Tour 2011: Another World of Music
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…