Solar eclipses have inspired a lot of music over the years. With the upcoming solar eclipse on August 21, Echoes brings us five albums that will create the cinematic soundscape for this solar event.
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Echoes interviews Pepper Proud and Masaru Higasa of New Age band, Yaima. We discuss Timothy Leary, transformational festivals, new album OvO, and sensory deprivation tanks.
Ireland’s Tiny Magnetic Pets are creating retro electronic pop and they have one of the originators of that sound as a guest, Wolfgang Flur from Kraftwerk. And Chronotope Project returns with Ovum.
It’s new music by Electric Youth who released an ambient film score for a movie that never came out called Breathing. We’ll also hear the ambient guitar band, Hammock from Mysterium.
Coming up on Echoes we go with the Flow. Flow is a new group with pianist Fiona Joy, guitarist Lawrence Blatt, fluegelhorn player Jeff Oster and guitarist and Windham Hill Records founder, Will Ackerman.
The video for Ulrich Schnauss’ “Love Grows Out of Thin Air” is a heartbreaking story of loss and sadness.
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Pierre Henry virtually invented the idea of sampling. Just using phonograph recordings, many of them custom made, he sampled the world and turned it into what became musique concrète.
We talk with Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan. With music born in the Lebanese civil war, and a nomadic life since childhood, she’s created an Arab electronica that transcends worlds.
Tom Eaton is best known as an engineer of acoustic albums for Windham Hill founder Will Ackerman. But on his own, he plugs into his room of synthesizers to create ambient dreamscapes.
Coming up on Echoes, the mystical dream pop sound of Falling You. Headed up by multi-instrumentalist John Michael Zorko Falling You is more of a collective than a band with guest singers and lyricists.