Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy have released two beautiful albums of modern instrumental music, Frio Suite and WaterSky. They’re joined by Irish flutist Brian Dunning of Nightnoise and violinist Wendy Goodwin when they play that music live.
Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese past in January, but a the last configuration of the band release a 3CD live set that embodies everything that made Tangerine Dream one of the most influential and inspiration electronic bands.
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Gayle Ellett and Todd Montgomery are modern musicians purveying a backwoods Americana global music fusion as Fernwood. Arcadia is their second album of mostly acoustic ruminations, orchestrated with everything from sitars and guitars to bouzoukis and dilruba in a global music of the imagination.
Chopin is in the air lately.
Darin Mahoney started out as a cowboy roping cattle and riding broncos in rodeos. A near death experience with cancer and an encounter with guitarist Will Ackerman’s music changed his life. Now he creates dreamy guitar music as a solo artist and in a duo with flutist Sherry Finzer.
Pianist Chad Lawson talks about his recording The Chopin Variations.
So soon after the passing of Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese, two new albums from Tangerine Dream have appeared.
Fernwood and Lanterna bring an Ambient Americana hue to the Echoes Top 25 for February. Both were Echoes CDs of the Month in February and March respectively. Rebekka Karijord, Zola Jesus and Shadowlands among the artists making their Echoes Top 25 debuts.
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Sherry Finzer plays in a duo with a cowboy, was an aerobics instructor, classically trained flute player and now makes ambient chamber music in Arizona.
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7and5 is the recording persona of John Nixon, a Detroit electronic artist who records jingles in his day job, but scores ambient electronic fantasies at night.