The Echoes Top 25 for May 2020 features AVAWaves, John Gregorius, Nicholas Godin, Rhian Sheehan, Peter Kater and 20 other great CDs. See what should be in your collection.
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Echoes May 2020 Top 25: AvaWaves Breaks at the Top
Tag: Progressive Rock
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Monday, June 15, 2020 – Tangerine Dream’s 50th
Tangerine Dream invented a new genre of music. We talk to Edgar Froese, Peter Baumann, Christoph Franke, Klaus Schulze, and several more about their electronic revolution into space.
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Thursday, June 11, 2020 – CGT & MG3 Live
It’s the 36 strings of The California Guitar Trio and the Montréal Guitare Trio. These two virtuoso groups get together to play music from their 2019 CD of the Month, In a Landscape, live.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2020 – Echoes Program 2021C
Pianist Peter Kater is interviewed and we hear a suite of his music as well as new music from Moby, bassist Michael Manring, and German electronic artist Robert Schroeder.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2020 – Echoes Program 2021B
Composer Michael Whalen talks about his CD of the Month, Sacred Spaces. It’s a return to his progressive rock roots as he turns a classical composition into a synthesized fantasy.
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Weekend, June 5-7, 2020 – John Gregorius & Emacipator
Guitar dreams by John Gregorius from his album, Full of Life, the June Echoes CD of the Month. We also have an interview with electronic musician Doug Appling of Emancipator.
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Thursday, June 4, 2020 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Iona, the English group who specializes in an ethereal form of progressive rock. They have a new collection out, The Book of Iona.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020 – Echoes Program 2020B
Guitarist David Helpling takes us into the runic and oceanic influences of his January CD of the Month, Rune. He talks about ambient guitar, the ocean and ancient runes.
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Monday, June 1, 2020 – John Gregorius’ Full of Life
Guitar dreams by John Gregorius from his album, Full of Life. His Echoes CD of the Month He’s crafted an excursion of multi-layered guitar from acoustic to electric in evocative compositions.
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Friday, May 15, 2020 – Echoes Program 2019E
We’ll hear a great version of Phil Collins’ In the Air Tonight by Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky. We’ll also hear from Tigerforest’s album of orchestrated electronics called Discovery.