Tangerine Dream’s new album is called Raum, which means space. They’ve been exploring it for over 5 decades. This album is based on compositions left by the late founding member, Edgar Froese.
It’s shamanistic pop from Siberia when we hear Otyken. Think of Bjork going tribal. We’ll also hear a new song by Sharon Van Etten who is continuing her electronic ways.
The Royal Arctic Institute: not a science organization, although one is a psychologist. This quintet creates atmospheric guitar-centric sound, like the Ventures gone slow mo and psychedelic.
Echoes’ March CD of the Month looks back on Memories. It’s called Memoria by Danish electronic artist Trentemøller. He mixes downtempo grooves, New Wave moods and dreampop vocals.
Texas-based artist Hollan Holmes paints southern landscapes and rusty artifacts by day, but he heads into electronic space at night, composing music like his CD of the Month, Emerald Waters.
Chieli Minucci talks about his instrumental outing into a more contemplative mode. He’s a guitarist and founder of fusion group Special EFX, but has a new solo album called Someone’s Singing.
Trentemøller’s music exudes the sounds of 1970s German Progressive Rock,1980s New Wave, and 1990s Shoegaze but transfigured by electronics and a taste for the dark and melancholy..
We’ll hear music by Lunar Noon, a choral dream pop project of Michelle Zheng. Her debut album is Symbolic Creature. We also have music from Robot Koch’s Sand And Foam project remixed.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, Will Ackerman. He’s got a new collection drawn from his romance with Italy called Positano Songs. We’ll hear that and some new downtempo electronic by Fade.