We have one conversation with a trio that has released an album called Seven Conversations. They are Jeff Oster, Vin Downes and Tom Eaton. We talk to them about improvising in ambient space.
The August CD of the Month is the debut recording of Jaymie Rose Hennegan. She has spun an album of delirious sequencers and free-form synth solos, improvised live on the album, Transition.
We get liquid with Edgar Froese’s solo debut album, Aqua, released 50 years ago. Froese was the founding member of Tangerine Dream, but this album went more experimental.
Music from Arooj Aftab, the Pakistani-American singer who wraps you in dark sultriness. We’ll hear from her album, Night Reign. We’ll also hear a psychedelic band called Magic Fig.
We celebrate Klaus Schulze’s Blackdance. Released in 1974, it was Schulze’s third release and the first to see him moving in the direction of music for which he’s best known.
Head into psychedelic space on the 50th anniversary of Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra. This is a seminal album that essentially launched the whole sequencer school of electronics.
Loreena McKennitt revisits her classic album, The Mask and Mirror. She’s currently touring that album in Europe, and released a live album from 1994 on the original’s 30th anniversary.
Moby’s Play turns 25. This influential landmark album remains an important signpost of electronic music and electronic pop and “Porcelain” might be the first standard of electronic pop.
Tori Amos’ Unrepentant Geraldines turns 10. We talked to Tori in 2014, and we revisit that interview to go behind the songs of Unrepentant Geraldines, which now has a new deluxe edition.
We have one conversation with a trio that has released an album called Seven Conversations. They are Jeff Oster, Vin Downes and Tom Eaton. We talk to them about improvising in ambient space.