Zone Music Awards 2018by John Diliberto 5/15/2018The ZMR Music Awards descended on New Orleans this year, a quiet counterpoint to the Bourbon Street mania happening a few blocks away. There were no Hurricanes or “yard-long” drinks at this event, nor beads tossed to woman flashing their assets. This is a more genteel, contemplative and sedate…
The Nightcrawlers were the reluctant leaders of a Philadelphia music scene that tapped the sounds of German space music. An album of their 1980s cassette releases has just been issued. We dig back to an interview with these lost pioneers of electronic space.
Composer Forrest Fang manipulates western, eastern and toy instruments along with flowerpots into surreal soundscapes. He talks about his new album, Scenes from a Ghost Train, on Echoes.
The ZMR Awards acknowledge electronic, ambient and New Age music. We’ll bring you this year’s nominees in categories that span from Best Chill album to Best Neo-Classical album.
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by Solar Fields. The Swedish electronic artist aka Magnus Birgessontakes his downtempo sound in a more cinematic direction on “Ourdom.”
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Electronic artist Chuck Van Zyl is a child of German electronic sounds of the 70s, He’s keeping that alive on his Stars End Radio and in his own music. He talks about it in Echoes Podcast.
Echoes Top 25 for April includes Moby, Alpha Seeds, Chuck Van Zyl, Khruangbin, Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning, Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society, Loreena McKennitt, Jeff Greinke.
Norway’s Erik Wøllo creates an album born of loss, escape and cinematic expanse on his album Threshold Point, the Echoes CD of the Month for May. We review this profoundly beautiful album.
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Holger Czukay, a founding member of iconoclastic rock band Can and a master of sound collage, the proto-typical sample artist. Learn about him in the Echoes Podcast.
Electronic artist Chuck Van Zyl is a child of German electronic sounds of the 70s, He’s keeping that alive on his Stars End Radio and in his own music. He talks about it on Echoes.
