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Before it was corporate music for spas and yoga studios, New Age music had adventurous, experimental Indie roots. Producer Douglas Mcgowan unearths them in two collections. “I Am The Center, Private Issue New Age Music in America, 1950-1990” and “The Microcosm, Visionary Music of Continental Europe, 1970-1986.”
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Explore the experimental side of Pink Floyd with their new box set Pink Floyd the Early Years 1967-1972. Drummer Nick Mason speaks about the birth of Pink Floyd in Echoes Podcast.
On Efflorescent, Echoes Live 22, the best live performance on Echoes are gathered into a perfect 73-minute excursion. From Loreena McKennitt to Tommy Emmanuel, Jesse Cook to The Album Leaf, Efflorescent blossoms.
On the next Echoes, Wax Tailor takes your head off with a new album of sliced and diced samples called By Any Beats Necessary. We’ll also hear a physician who is a singer.
The supergroup Minor Victories, with vocalist Rachel Goswell (Slowdive), guitarists Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai) and Justin Lockey (Editors) go orchestral on latest album., “Orchestral Variations. “
Listeners will find themselves lost in a malfunctioning matrix of defective yet oddly intriguing sounds, tones, and misfiring rhythms in Bon Iver’s latest two releases.
Ambient composer Robert Rich and visual artist Jörg Wand create a video of fractal artwork to accompany Rich’s “Filaments.”
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.
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.
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Steve Kimock has played with just about every member of The Grateful Dead. With his own groups, he plays pays extended guitar centric compositions full of improvisation, and he’s often mentioned in the same breadth as bands like Phish and The String Cheese Incident. But don’t dare call his group a jam band.