There are 12 days of Christmas and on the next Echoes we have 12 months of Echoes CD of the Month Picks. John Diliberto plays tracks off them all from Contact’s Discreet Music in January to this December’s pick, Erik Scott’s In the Company of Clouds.
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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.”
Jane Siberry is something of a lost icon. The music she made in the 1980s and 1990s sat right alongside artists like Kate Bush, Bjork and Tori Amos. She talks about her new album. Angels Bend Closer, on Echoes
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On his 80th birthday, we look back at the career of composer and minimalist pioneer Steve Reich. He wrote Music for 18 Musicians. He influenced thousands of musicians.
Ed Harris is another musician who was raised on metal but went into ambient electronic music instead. As Edamame uses field recordings made on his phone for some percussive sounds samples of birds chirping and outside chatter.
Technology & Nature Merge in Video for Edamame’s “Tree Shadows.”Edamame is food for your ears. It’s the moniker of Ed Harris out of Chicago and he’s released ten albums in the last 4 years. His latest is Ochre. Harris uses a lot of found sound and natural environments in this music that might be called…
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Dave Preston talks about his influences, current projects, and how his humble beginnings, recording with just a Shure SM-58, led to working with Justin Timberlake and his own ambient guitar albums.
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Julius Dobos is a Hungarian composer steeped in those sounds and he’s developing a concept called Forgotten Future that’s meant to provide a soundtrack for those ideas
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Echoes sits down with iconic electronic musician Moby to discuss his latest album and accompanying memoir.
Get your motor running and head out on the ambinet highway of Sigur Rós’ Route One, a live-streaming 24-hour travvelogue of Icleand running NOW