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.
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.