We remember Daevid Allen. The founding member of the Soft Machine and Gong, Allen created a mythology about the Planet Gong that brought to his music and life with whimsical philosophies and space rock explorations.
We hear features from 7 of the performers at Big Ears 2015 including Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Max Richter, William Tyler, Silver Apples, and Bill Frisell.
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Daevid Allen was the court jester and master of madness for Gong, the European progressive rock group who formed and 1969. He left the planet on March 13, at 77. He was a scientist of spacerock, evangelist of glissando guitar, one of the earliest loopers and cosmic Dada philosopher.
Tubular Bells for Two performs one of the signature compositions of the late 20th century on which composer Mike Oldfield played over a dozen instruments in this layered piece. TB for 2 do it live with just two musicians.
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Erik Scott played bass with Alice Cooper, and was a founding member of Sonia Dada. On his own, he creates atmospheric music centered on his melodic bass lines.
If it wasn’t for Martin Mull’s 1970s TV series, Fernwood T2 Night, the name Fernwood would more instantly conjure up pastoral images of a backwoods town from a time gone by. The band called Fernwood does that, only their backwoods could be in Bangalore, Senegal or in the Appalachian hills. It’s not that the music…
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/EchoesPodcast-EdgarFroese-TangerineDream.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe Remember Edgar Froese in Echoes Podcast Listen to the interview below or download the podcast from iTunes I first heard Tangerine Dream in 1974. It was the album Phaedra, and it was unlike anything I had ever heard before: no vocals, no songs, rhythms that throbbed like galactic rubber bands,…
Hear our tribute to Edgar Froese tonight on Echoes. I first heard Tangerine Dream in 1974. It was the album Phaedra, and it was unlike anything I had ever heard before: no vocals, no songs, rhythms that throbbed like galactic rubber bands, textures that swirled, and sounds that were completely unfamiliar. My music world was forever changed. Now…
Maya Beiser has been called a cello goddess. She usually plays modern classical music, but on her new CD Uncovered, she plays music by Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, King Crimson and AC-DC. Thursday January 22th Echoes Program 1503D Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Fernwood The Pan Chaser Arcadia …
Dry the River in Echoes PodcastDry the River is a band from England making an atmospheric rock sound that has a broken toggle stuck between folk and psychedelic music. Their music is marked by powerful rock instrumentation and soaring harmonies often traveling into the falsetto range that has fostered comparisons to Bon Iver vocally. They[‘re…