It’s the Best of Echoes 2024 So Far. As we hit the midway mark of the year, we’re going to select the 30 best releases to rise above this year. Find out if your favorites made the list!
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Monday, June 17, 2024 – Best of Echoes 2024 So Far
Tag: Avant-garde
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 May: Oster, Downes & Eaton on Top
Seven Conversations by Jeff Oster, Vin Downes, and Tom Eaton tops the Echoes May 2024, followed by Dark Sky Alliance, Limina and 22 more great releases. See if your favorites made the list!
CD of the Month
Echoes June CD of the Month: Limina Coming Home
Limina’s Symphonic Electronic Journey: Echoes June CD of the MonthBy John Diliberto 5/30/24 When I came to electronic music in the 1970s, I was very much under the influence of French-American composer Edgard Varèse. Besides composing great works like Déserts and Poème Electrified, he also wrote the manifesto, The Liberation of Sound. Writing in 1936,…
Reviews & Commentary
Sun Ra Arkestra’s Marshall Allen at 100
Saxophonist Marshall Allen tturned 100 on May 25, and he is still leading the Sun Ra Arkestra and blowing wild alto solos as if his was 30. His like has never been heard before.
Coming Up
Weekend, June 8-9, 2024 – June CD of the Month: Limina
Echoes brings you the June CD of the Month, Coming Home by Limina. It’s a masterpiece of ambient chamber music, combining orchestra and electronics in a tone poem for return and affirmation.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Trio Mediaeval Interview
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Wednesday, June 5, 2024 – Klaus Schulze’s Blackdance at 50
On the next Echoes we celebrate Klaus Schulze’s Blackdance. Released in 1974, it was Schulze’s 3rd release and the first to see him moving in the direction of music for which he’s best known.
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Wednesday, May 29, 2024 – Music by Parra for Cuva
On the next Echoes, new music by Parra for Cuva. It sounds Latin but it’s a German electronic artist who has a bit of a Latin feel to his downtempo music on the album, Mimose.
Coming Up
Weekend, May 25-26, 2024 – Trio Mediaeval Interview
On the next Echoes, the Trio Mediaeval singers channel sounds from the Middle ages up through contemporary composers. We talk to them about their 23-year journey into the past.
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Monday, May 20, 2024 – Trio Mediaeval Interview
On the next Echoes, the Trio Mediaeval singers channel sounds from the Middle ages up through contemporary composers. We talk to them about their 23-year journey into the past.