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.
Synthwave is all the rage in electronic circles. On the next Echoes, two musicians with a direct lineage to that sound, Thorsten Quaschning and Ulrich Schnauss. Each is a solo artist and a member of Tangerine Dream.
50 years ago, Pink Floyd blew the minds of the London underground with their debut album, Piper at the Gates of Dawn. In a Flashback 50, we talk to Floyd drummer Nick Mason who takes us back to the seminal days of this iconic rock group from sonic experiments to chemical experiments.
An Explorer of Sound, Klaus Schulze turns 70To those of us who came up listening to electronic music in the 1970s, Klaus Schulze was an icon. The German musician tapped directly into the growing electronic gestalt and created the template of electronic music that many, to this day, are employing. His name has faded in…
German duo and Tangerine Dream members Ulrich Schnauss & Thorsten Quaeschning create a state-of-the-art sequencer excursion called “Synthwaves.” It’s the Echoes August CD of the Month.
On their seventh album, Silver Eye, the English duo, Goldfrapp tackle themes of musical and sexual transformation. They talk about their metaphysical and electronic journey on Echoes.
Lewis Scaife grew up on Hip-Hop, but when he started recording as Nym, he found a gentler, more trippy and surreal sound, mixing environmental samples and his own electronic sounds.
Violinist Christopher Tignor comes in with his electronic rig, a bass drum and chines and orchestrates a one-man ambient chamber music performance live on Echoes.
Lewis Scaife grew up on Hip-Hop, but when he started recording as Nym, he found a gentler, more trippy and surreal sound, mixing environmental samples and his own electronic sounds.
Truth is a Beautiful Thing and so is the music that London Grammar makes on their new album. The English dreampop trio has released one of the most powerfully contemplative albums of the year.