Jane Siberry is something of a lost icon. The music she made in the 1980s and 1990s sat right alongside artists like Kate Bush, Bjork and Tori Amos. She talks about her new album. Angels Bend Closer, on Echoes
Go with the Slow Flow Echoes. We’ll hear an all instrumental show with new music by Bluetech. It’s his second album in the Four Horseman of the Electrocalypse series, The Red Horse. Also the latest by Signal Hill.
In 1990 Enigma enchanted the world with their album, MCMXC a.D. mixing gothic chants and electronic moods. Now they return with their first album in eight years, The Fall of a Rebel Angel.
On a slow Flow Echoes we take a deep dive in new music by Dean De Benedictus from his album, Salvaging the Present and hear new electronic music by Christian Löffler.
Coming up on the next Echoes we’ll hear music by Sam Evian and his album, Premium and an acoustic guitar tour de force from Spencer Elliott.
Swim into the Slow Flow on the next Echoes with music from Lemongrass and the early days of the New Age off the collection The Microcosm: Visionary Music of Continental Europe 1970-1986.
Instrumentals from Martin Tillman, The Album Leaf and Tycho lead Echoes Top 25 for October. Followed up by albums from Weyes Blood, Delerium, Skye-Ross and our November CD of the Month Agnes Obel’s Citizen of Glass.
We look back on Pink Floyd’s Meddle at 45, which contains the epic track “Echoes.”
Yoga Records label owner Douglas McGowan has set out to re-examine New Age music from its Indie, experimental roots. He talks about his compilations I Am the Center and The Microcosm on Echoes.
Syrinx was an obscure Canadian band making an electronic space music a few years before Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze’s seminal works. They released to albums in 1970 and 1971 and then faded away.