The Zone Music Awards honor electronic, ambient, new age and contemporary instrumental music. They just held their annual awards show in New Orleans. John Diliberto zones in on the winners.
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Zone Music Awards 2017
Tag: CD of the Month
Playlists
Weekend, May 6 & 7, 2017 – Echoes Program 1718A
Swedish Electronic musicians Johan Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren create an ambient dreamscape inspired by the border between Finland and Russia. Agebjörn is a noted ambient music composer with several albums including Mosebo and The Mountain Lake.
CD of the Month
May CD of the Month: Johann Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren
Swedish electronic musicians Johann Agebjörn and Mikael Ögren take a trip to the Russian-Finish border and come back with an album of evocative tone poems, We Never Came to the White Sea.
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Monday, May 1st, 2017 – Echoes Program 1718A
Swedish Electronic musicians Johan Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren create an ambient dreamscape inspired by the border between Finland and Russia. Agebjörn is a noted ambient music composer with several albums including Mosebo and The Mountain Lake.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for April 2017: Jean-Michael Jarre on Top
Jean-Michel Jarre Leads Echoes April Top 25 with Oxygene Trilogy, culminating 40 years of electronic music that inspired artists here like Erik Wøllo and Delia Derbyshire Appr’n Society.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for March 2017-Daniel Voth-Transcendance
Echoes March Top 25 includes the CD of the Month, Daniel Voth’s Transcendance, as well as Mike Oldfield’s Return to Ommadawn, Lisa Hannigan’s At Swim and Bonobo’s Migration.
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Weekend, April 8 & 9, 2017-Echoes Program 1714A
It’s a journey into the world of Jean-Michel Jarre when we explore the Oxygene Trilogy, his electronic opus that began with his 1976 hit Oxygene.
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Monday, April 3rd, 2017-Echoes Program 1714A
It’s a journey into the world of Jean-Michel Jarre when we explore the Oxygene Trilogy, his electronic opus that began with his 1976 hit Oxygene.
CD of the Month
April CD of the Month:Jean-Michel Jarre Oxygene Trilogy
Written by John Diliberto on April 3, 2017 It’s pretty rare that an artist could take three albums spanning 40 years, put them together, and have them sound like a coherent whole, as if it was the plan all along for them to sit together as a single epic work. But French electronic artist Jean-Michel…
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Friday March 31st, 2017-Echoes Program 1713E
On a Slow Flow Echoes, it’s new music by George Winston. The acclaimed pianist returns with a new album called Spring Carousel. We’ll also hear new music by guitarist Adam Werner from his album, Deep.