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.
Reviews & Commentary
Zone Music Awards 2017
Tag: Ambient
Playlists
Wednesday, May 17th, 2017-Echoes Program 1720C
Coming up on Echoes, it’s new music by Sohn, an English singer-songwriter living in Vienna and turning his songs into a rustic ambient sound on his new album, Rennen.
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
Playlists
Friday, May 12th, 2017-Echoes Program 1719E
On a Slow Flow Echoes, deep electronic music by S1gns of L1fe and guitarist Chrys Bocast’s new space guitar project, Grand Transients. We spark the future tonight on Echoes.
Interview Podcast
Delia Derbyshire’s 80th Birthday in Echoes Podcast.
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She created the theme for Doctor Who, tripped out with the White Noise, and inspired a few generations of British electronic musicians to plug in. Delia Derbyshire remembered in Echoes Podcast
Playlists
Friday, May 5th, 2017-Echoes Program 1718E
New music from progressive rock vets Djam Karet and guitarist Daniel Voth on a Slow Flow Echoes.
Playlists
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017-Echoes Program 1718B
From Western Australia comes Laliya, the duo of James and Melissa McGuire. Since 1995 they’ve been creating an acoustic based sound with electronic extensions like delays and loops to create a world fusion of the imagination.
CD of the Month
May CD of the Month: Johann Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren
Swedish electronic musicians Johann Agebjörn and Mikael Ögren take a trip to the Russian-Finish border and come back with an album of evocative tone poems, We Never Came to the White Sea.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for April 2017: Jean-Michael Jarre on Top
Jean-Michel Jarre Leads Echoes April Top 25 with Oxygene Trilogy, culminating 40 years of electronic music that inspired artists here like Erik Wøllo and Delia Derbyshire Appr’n Society.
Playlists
Friday, April 28th, 2017 – Echoes Program 1717E
Coming up on a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Kitaro from his Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai Volume 5 and yoga master and guitarist Michael Hewett returns with a new one called Muses.