The Zone Music Awards honor electronic, ambient, new age and contemporary instrumental music. They just held their annual awards show in New Orleans. John Diliberto zones in on the winners.
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Zone Music Awards 2017
Tag: New Age
Playlists
Wednesday, May 17th, 2017-Echoes Program 1720C
Coming up on Echoes, it’s new music by Sohn, an English singer-songwriter living in Vienna and turning his songs into a rustic ambient sound on his new album, Rennen.
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Suzanne Ciani Wins Moog Innovation Award
The 2017 Moog Innovation Award will be presented to Suzanne Ciani at Moogfest 2017, the annual music, art and technology festival in Durham, North Carolina. She’s profiled Monday, May 22 on Echoes
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Friday, May 12th, 2017-Echoes Program 1719E
On a Slow Flow Echoes, deep electronic music by S1gns of L1fe and guitarist Chrys Bocast’s new space guitar project, Grand Transients. We spark the future tonight on Echoes.
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Fifty Year Flashback: Country Joe & the Fish
Country Joe and the Fish’s debut, Electric Music for the Mind and Body, remains a defining artifacts of the psychedelic era. It turns 50 on May 11, still tripping after all these years.
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2017-Echoes Program 1719C
Low Roar brings ethereal dream pop and AO Music creates a world fusion behind of the voice of Adiemus singer Miriam Stockley
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Friday, May 5th, 2017-Echoes Program 1718E
New music from progressive rock vets Djam Karet and guitarist Daniel Voth on a Slow Flow Echoes.
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Thursday, May 4th, 2017 – Echoes Program 1718D
On the next Echoes, celebrate the birthday of the creator of the original Dr. Who Theme, the late Delia Derbyshire. She’s a legend of electronic music.
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017-Echoes Program 1718B
From Western Australia comes Laliya, the duo of James and Melissa McGuire. Since 1995 they’ve been creating an acoustic based sound with electronic extensions like delays and loops to create a world fusion of the imagination.
CD of the Month
May CD of the Month: Johann Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren
Swedish electronic musicians Johann Agebjörn and Mikael Ögren take a trip to the Russian-Finish border and come back with an album of evocative tone poems, We Never Came to the White Sea.