Hear an Homage to Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra in the Echoes Podcast On February 20th, 1974, Tangerine Dream released the album that changed electronic music for the next 40 years. It takes its name from Greek mythology and its sound from the imaginations of Edgar Froese, Peter Baumann and Christoph Franke, the three members of Tangerine…
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Reviews & Commentary
Tangerine Dream’s “Phaedra” at 40
On February 20th, 1974, Tangerine Dream released the album that changed electronic music for the next 40 years. It takes its name from Greek mythology and its sound from the imaginations of Edgar Froese, Peter Baumann and Christoph Franke, the three members of Tangerine Dream at the time. Phaedra was their fifth album, coming on…
Reviews & Commentary
Electronic Bliss at Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit.
Three nights of electronic music blazed forth the weekend of October 25-27 at the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit in Asheville, North Carolina. Scattered across Asheville’s compact downtown in five different venues ranging from a bar to an arena, musicians plugged in with a range of electronic dreams. One musician was 77 years old with…
Program Highlights
New Music: The Boards of Canada & Sigur Rós
Hear New Music from the Boards of Canada and Sigur Ros on Echoes tonight. Tonight on Echoes, new music by downtempo electronic denizens, Boards of Canada, from their highly anticipated and hyped Tomorrow’s Harvest, and the latest by Sigur Rós off their new album Kveikur (Candlewick). Below, watch Boards of Canada with “Reach for the…
Program Highlights
New Music: The Boards of Canada & Sigur Rós
New music by downtempo electronic denizens, The Boards of Canada, from their highly anticipated and hyped Tomorrow’s Harvest, and the latest by Sigur Rós off their new album Kveikur (Candlewick). Below, watch Sigur Rós’ “Hoppipolla” from their 2005 album, Takk. John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign up for Echoes CD of the Month Club. With the Echoes…
Interview Podcast
Seven Saturdays Echoes Podcast
Hear the Echoes Interview with Seven Saturdays in the Echoes Podcast What do you do when you’ve been weened on Brian Eno, Zero 7 and Pink Floyd, but you’re only in your mid-30s? There’s a good chance you might make music like Seven Saturdays. That’s the recording project from Jonathan D. Haskell who began making…
Program Highlights
Echoes Interviewed on Public Television.
Echoes on TV: Friday Arts, a program on Philadelphia PBS station WHYY, did a piece on Philly space music and interviewed Echoes John Diliberto & Jeff Towne as well as Chuck Van Zyl from Star’s End and electronic musician Jason Sloan. The feature ran Friday, 1/4/2012, but you can see it online here: http://video.whyy.org/video/2323750666 The…
Reviews & Commentary
Moogfest Gone? Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit Here?
A press release was just issued notifying us about a change at Moogfest, namely that it will no longer be called Moogfest, but the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit (MOEMS?) I could be wrong, but if I’m to read between the lines of the release, I suspect that they couldn’t come to an amenable financial…
Living Room Concerts, Program Highlights
David Wright Live On Echoes.
Tonight on Echoes we’ve got David Wright coming into the Echoes Living Room to play live. This veteran English synthesist has been recording space music opuses since 1989 and has released 2 dozen solo albums plus recordings with Code Indigo and Callisto. David’s music is initially inspired by artists like Vangelis and Klaus Schulze, but…
Reviews & Commentary
Still Tangerine Dreaming
There is a nice review of Tangerine Dream’s show in NYC by Jon Pareles in the New York Times. Nice to see a balanced POV in the mainstream media. Apparently, while they had a bigger venue in New York than Philadelphia, they did not have a bigger audience. Only a few hundred according to reports.…