On a Slow Flow Echoes we explore early Japanese ambient music from a collection called Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Environmental, Ambient & New Age Music 1980-1990. We’ll aslo sample another collection: Cosmic Duality, on Astro Pilot.
New music by FLOW, the quartet of Fiona Joy, Lawrence Blatt, Jeff Oster and Windham Hill founder Will Ackerman. We’ll also hear guitar-synthesist Mark Dwane on a Slow Flow Echoes.
Pianist Chad Lawson came up through classical and jazz, but now he’s creating ambient music, treating his piano with electronic processing to give him a more atmospheric sound.
Eve Maret brings her synthesizers and vocal processing to perform the music of her debut album, No More Running, live. Maret is a resolutely electronic artist, influenced by ’70s and ’80s electropop.
Guitarist William Tyler calls his music “rural New Age” with tongue only part way in-cheek. He’s taken the Windham Hill aesthetic, and carried it to new dimensions. He talks about it on Echoes.
It’s music created before your ears when trumpeter John Swana, guitarist Tim Motzer and percussionist Doug Hirlinger create music from ground zero in this Echoes Living Room Concert.
This weekend on Echoes, Hugar’s Varða, the September CD of the Month, a definitive album of ambient chamber music. Then hear ambient chamber music live when Yann Tiersen comes in to play live.
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by Steve Hackett, formerly the guitarist with Genesis. We’ll also hear a classic 70s track by German electronic pioneer, Klaus Schulze.
Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning releases The Munich Session. We go back to 1981 for John Foxx’s The Garden and Mark Dwane returns to 1988 to revisit his debut with Martian Apparitions.
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The Art of Electric Improvisation with John Swana, Tim Motzer & Doug Hirlinger in Echoes Podcasthttps://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/EchoesPodcast-SwanaMotzerHirlinger.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS In the Echoes Podcast, John Diliberto talks about the art of improvisation with three veteran musicians, trumpeter John Swana, guitarist Tim Motzer and percussionist Doug Hirlinger. They are denizens of the avant-garde…