One of the icons of electronic music are on another leg of their endless swansong tour. They haven’t produced an album in 12 years, yet they are selling out venues across the country for an audience hungry for the original avatars of electro-pop.
Steve Roach is an icon of electronic music whose albums, Structures from Silence and Dreamtime Return are considered classics. In a rare east coast performance, he brought his music before a sold out audience at The Gatherings Concert series in Philadelphia.
Ben Neill sounds the clarion of his muttantrumpet in a Slow Flow Echoes along with new release from Ian Boddy’s dIN label by Parallel Worlds & Self Oscillate.
March 1st 2013 marked the 40th anniversary of the release of The Dark Side of The Moon. To celebrate, we put together The Dark Side of the Moon Reimagined. It’s a version of the album drawn from cover tunes.
Chad Kettering started out as a classical trumpet player, but something happened on the way to the concert hall.
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Unlock the door to your mind with when Steve Roach gives you Skeleton Keys. That’s the latest album from the legendary electronic musician. Noted for his acclaimed albums, Structures from Silence and Dreamtime Return and as a pioneer of techno-tribal and drone-zone music, Roach has carved a unique and independent path over the last 35 years. He was also voted the number one Icon of Echoes last year. He returns to his analog roots for an album of furious sequencer syncopations called Skeleton Keys. He unlocks it when we talk with him in the Echoes Interview Podcast.
On the next Echoes, keyboardist Ryan Farish takes a more rhythmic, driving approach on a new release called Spectrum while the European trio Broekhuis, Keller and Schoenwalder go retro-space.
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Dieter Moebius was a founding member of influential German bands Cluster and Harmonia, creating a sound that was known as Krautrock and collaborating with Brian Eno. Moebius died on July 20 at the age of 71. We go back to an interview with Moebius and bandmate Hans-Joachim Roedelius from 1996.
It’s a Slow Flow Echoes with new music from James Hood who has a new double CD of Hang Drum moods called Pure Ceremony. We’ll also hear ex-King Crimson violinist David Cross reworking a composition from that band called “Starless.”
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Forrest Fang is a classically trained musician who plays instruments from around the world in a surreal global symphony. He takes us on a global journey that starts in his bedroom.