Al Jewer plays flutes. Andy Mitran plays keyboards and percussion. When they aren’t crafting commercial jingles in Chicago, they create music that ranges from world fusion to pure ambient. Winners of a ZMR Award in 2016, they talk about their music on Echoes.
Suzanne Ciani is known for her romantic keyboard compositions, but she started out as an avant-garde electronic composer. You can hear that side on a new album, Buchla Concerts 1975. John Diliberto looks back at this seminal work and time.
Echoes CD of the Month for August, William Tyler’s “Modern Country” elevates country and folk traditions to cosmic, ambient planes
Peter Baumann was a member of Tangerine Dream during their classic era and founded Private Music. Now, after 20 years in his think tank, the Baumann Foundation, he returns with his first new album in 33 years, Machines of Desire. He talks about electronics and philosophy on Echoes.
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Bryan Tewell Hughes, otherwise known as AeTopus, speaks with Echoes about his influences, process, and Sci-Fi musings. His latest album is entitled When.
He’s played with every member of the Grateful Dead and had a band with guitarist John Cippolina of Quicksilver Messenger Service.
The French duo called Air is both retro and “moderne,” chilled pop and ambient lounge. They created a splash in 1998 with their album, Moon Safari In 2004 they came to Echoes to play music from that album and The Virgin Suicides soundtrack.
Peter Baumann was a member of Tangerine Dream during their classic era and founded Private Music. Now, after 20 years in his think tank, the Baumann Foundation, he returns with his first new album in 33 years, Machines of Desire. He talks about electronics and philosophy on Echoes.
We’ve got the digital blender fired up for Echoes Remixed. John Diliberto plays a lot of music you know, but in versions that aren’t the original in an all remix show.
The new Netflix Original Series, Stranger Things, is a modern twist on classic sci-fi horror, and its chilling synthesizer-filled score follows suit. Composers Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon tap into an analog sound that began in the 1970s, take it to the 80s and make it timeless.