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Before it was corporate music for spas and yoga studios, New Age music had adventurous, experimental Indie roots. Producer Douglas Mcgowan unearths them in two collections. “I Am The Center, Private Issue New Age Music in America, 1950-1990” and “The Microcosm, Visionary Music of Continental Europe, 1970-1986.”
New recordings from Bluetech, Signal Hill and Still Corners join our November CD of the Month, Agnes Obel’s Citizen of Glass, on the Echoes Top 25 for November.
Symbion Project is the venture of electronic artist Kasson Crooker. It’s an exploration of family, technology, Sci-fi and more. Crooker talks about it on Echoes.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we take part of the show to remember bassist and singer Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake & Palmer. He died on December 7 at 69.
Go with the Slow Flow Echoes. We’ll hear an all instrumental show with new music by Bluetech. It’s his second album in the Four Horseman of the Electrocalypse series, The Red Horse. Also the latest by Signal Hill.
On a slow Flow Echoes we take a deep dive in new music by Dean De Benedictus from his album, Salvaging the Present and hear new electronic music by Christian Löffler.
On Efflorescent, Echoes Live 22, the best live performance on Echoes are gathered into a perfect 73-minute excursion. From Loreena McKennitt to Tommy Emmanuel, Jesse Cook to The Album Leaf, Efflorescent blossoms.
Instrumentals from Martin Tillman, The Album Leaf and Tycho lead Echoes Top 25 for October. Followed up by albums from Weyes Blood, Delerium, Skye-Ross and our November CD of the Month Agnes Obel’s Citizen of Glass.
We look back on Pink Floyd’s Meddle at 45, which contains the epic track “Echoes.”
Yoga Records label owner Douglas McGowan has set out to re-examine New Age music from its Indie, experimental roots. He talks about his compilations I Am the Center and The Microcosm on Echoes.