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.
An uninterrupted six-hour soundscape featuring music by Mark Isham, Tangerine Dream, George Winston, Radium 88, and many more.
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.
On a Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear guitarists Dave Preston & Ian Ethan Case with two different approaches to guitar orchestrations..
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.
Jamie Sieber was at the leading edge of a new generation of cellists taking the most soulful of symphonic strings in new directions, looping her cello and using electric guitar-style effects. She comes in to create her looping cello chamber works live.
Laurie Anderson is a true icon of modern music, creating a sound unlike any other that brings together cultural observations, acute humor and ambient textures. In her new film, Heart of a Dog, she explores themes of death, doubt, culture and moms.
Coming up on the next Echoes it’s new music by Low. The band that specializes in slowly moving rock gets a little less slow on their new album, Ones and Sixes.