On a Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear from two albums with cosmic themes, but each comes from a very different perspective. We’ll hear from Zero One’s trippy “Signals” and Daniel Hart’s score to “Comet”.
Echoes host John Diliberto has picked his Top 25 albums of 2015. They range from dream pop to sequencer dervishes to ambient chamber music to fusion and beyond.
2015 began with the unexpected death of Edgar Froese, the founding member of the German electronic band, Tangerine Dream. 2015 also saw the anniversary of two influential Tangerine Dream albums, Rubycon and Ricochet.
It’s another Grammy Award season. The nominees has been announced and it seems like every year is more mundane than the one before when it comes to new music, adventurous music and even New Age music.
Brian Eno’s “Discreet Music,” released 40 years ago, is the seminal work of ambient music. A Toronto new music group arranges it for acoustic instruments.
It’s another amazing month of music at Echoes with Kevin Keller’s magnificent CD of the Month, La Strada, leading the Echoes Top 25 for November. But check out some of the others like the #2 album, a wonderful collection of melodic electronics called Autumn Time Volume 3.
We travel from slow-core pastoral rock to ambient electronic music when we hear the latest by the Lancaster based band, The Innocence Mission and the English electronic pop group, Radium 88.