The Electric Prunes and Steppenwolf both released albums in January 1968. One has classic tracks the other aspires to the classic. Read about them in a Flashback 50.
Spirit was a psychedelic group who released their debut album 50 years ago. It still sounds like a new world of music 5 decades later. Read about this sometimes forgotten band.
It’s synthwave sounds by Future Fire, an LA duo tapping the inspiration of late seventies electropop. And new music out of Israel with the Essence Project from Chapter One.
Ray Thomas, flutist, singer and composer for The Moody Blues, has left the planet.
As we end the year, John Diliberto looks back on Echoes musicians who left the planet in 2017. They range from the iconic to the obscure, but all left their vibrations on the planet.
There is no other Year End music list like Echoes Best of of 2017. Ambient Requiems. Deep space journeys, chamber pop, progrock epics, EDM journeys and world fusion. See who made the list.
In 1967 the Rolling Stones went psychedelic, cosmic and a little bit demonic with the album, Their Satanic Majesties Request. We’ll hear a cosmic track from that record.
In a loaded Flashback 50, we highlight four albums all released 50 years ago this week, in 1967. We’ll hear tracks from The Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour”, Jimi Hendrix’s “Axis: Bold As Love”, The Jefferson Airplane’s “After Bathing at Baxters” and the debut of Traffic, “Mr. Fantasy.”
Jimi Hendrix changed music forever. Today we remember Jimi on Echoes and John Diliberto shares some of his thoughts on the single most important musician in his life.
We go back to 1967 to revisit Cream’s “Disraeli Gears” in a Flashback 50. Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker created this psychedelic classic that includes “Sunshine of Your Love.”