Tthe 29th Icon of Echoes arrives. Kitaro has created a stream of otherworldly sounds since the late 1970s. We’ll hear a profile of the artist, and a vintage live performance.
On a Slow Flow Echoes we explore early Japanese ambient music from a new collection called Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Environmental, Ambient & New Age Music 1980-1990.
Isao Tomita left the planet on May 5. I interviewed him in 1992 in his Tokyo Studio. I look back at this early electronic music explorer who took the classics into space