We talk to Rich Ruth. That’s the performance name of Michael Ruth, a multi-instrumentalist from Nashville. His music is a flow from ambient to free jazz. His new album is Water Still Flows.
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Monday, July 8, 2024 – Rich Ruth Interview
Tag: Avant-garde
Best Of
The Best Albums of 2024 on Echoes… So Far
The Best Albums of 2024 on Echoes. We pick out our 30 Favorite albums of the year so far covering the range of the Echoes Soundscape. This is a Best of list like no other.
Reviews & Commentary
Edgar Froese’s Electronic Aqua at 50
Edgar Froese is the founder of Tangerine Dream. In the same year they released their seminal 1974 album, Phaedra, he released his own solo album, Aqua 50 years ago.
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Weekend, June 22-23, 2024 – Best of Echoes 2024 So Far
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!
Playlists
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 – Echoes Program 2423C
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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Monday, June 17, 2024 – Best of Echoes 2024 So Far
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!
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.
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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.