Klaus Schulze is an icon of electronic music, exploring a sound that still resonates well after his first recordings in the early 1970s. Moondawn is one of those recordings celebrating its 40th Anniversary.
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On her new album, Echoes of the Dreamtime, Miranda Lee Richards takes folk sounds and deploys them through delayed guitar and psychedelic hues.
All India Radio is the ambient rock project of Australia’s Martin Kennedy. With his 10th album, The Slow Light, he’s created a journey of ambient guitar and slow burn moods.
It’s the sound of tripped out trumpets. Horn players are going beyond the sound of Be-bop solos and classical concertos.
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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Big Ears is one of the most expansive, eclectic and challenging music festivals in the world. In downtown Knoxville Tennessee, musicians from around the world and across genres convene in concerts that test the limits of sound and music.
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Cavern of Anti-Matter is a group steeped in analog synthesizers and worships at the electronic altar of 70s German groups like Neu! Harmonia, Cluster and Can. We talk to band leader Tim Gane about plugging in to the sound of his youth.
We’ll hear from a 21st century progressive rock opus by Mark McGuire called Beyond Belief and sufi chants turned into lush tapestries by HuDost.
Jamie Sieber was at the leading edge of a new generation of cellists taking the most soulful of symphonic strings in new directions, looping her cello and using electric guitar-style effects. She comes in to create her looping cello chamber works live.
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Discreet Music, arguably the first of Eno’s ambient works, has entered the acoustic canon, via the Canadian group, Contact. They turn the piece into an immersive meditation. Contact’s Jerry Pergolesi talks about making contact with Discreet Music.