German electronic music legend Hans-Joachim Roedelius was a founder of Cluster and Harmonia. Lately, he’s gone acoustic and has even recorded for the Deutsche Grammophon classical label.
We take a Flashback 50 to the eponymous debut of Emerson Lake and Palmer. It supercharged the progressive rock movement combining classical, jazz and folk elements into a new sound.
Electronics meets classical instrumentation in the world that Digitonal has occupied for much of this century, as avatars of ambient chamber music.
New music by British neo-classical composer Helen Jane Long from forthcoming album, Vessel of Light. We’ll also hear from electronic composer Mars Lasar, violinist Ezinma and Holger Czukay.
This weekend on Echoes, Digitonal return with their third CD of the Month, Set the Weather Fair. Digitonal are avatars of ambient chamber music and this is one of their best.
California Guitar Trio has released Elegy, Echoes August CD of the Month. Their guitar symmetry of interlocked melodies sends riffs through your head like stars in a synchronous dance.
We explore the ambient chamber music of Naneum. On his album, Life Cycle he recorded a local choir singing their traditional music but then sliced it up into his own arrangements.
Two women from the classical world go ambient with AvaWaves. Violinist Anna Phoebe and keyboardist Aisling Brouwer have crafted a haunting and unremittingly beautiful sound on their debut.
Swim through Blue Landscapes, the duo of flutist Damjan Krajacic and Robert Thiese. They talk about improvising their impressionistic ambient chamber music with only acoustic instruments.
Poppy Ackroyd’s album, Resolve was an Echoes CD of the Month two years ago. She talks about an approach to classical composition informed by punk rock and Radiohead.