From his days with with a psychedelic pop band called The Ones to the first Tangerine Dream recording, Electronic Meditation in 1969, Edgar Froese has been a force of musical change. In fact, I can’t imagine music today without the groundbreaking work he recorded in the 1970s with Tangerine Dream and on brilliant recordings like…
Tag: Space Music
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for May 2014
Program Highlights
Echoes Goes to the Darkside
Hear an Interview with Darkside Tonight on Echoes. This past October I got to see the band Darkside at the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit. They played before an impressively large audience in the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, considering they only had one album out, Psychic. They’re a band that favors shadows, standing in twin cones…
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for April
Dream-pop Dominates Echoes Top Ten in April The year is 25% done and here’s some of the music that’s been bubbling to the top of the Echoes playlists during April. Of course, Lyla Foy’s April CD of the Month, Mirrors the Sky is number one and deservedly so. Look for live performances and interviews with Foy…
Program Highlights
From the 80s to Infinity
Did you miss out on the 1980s? A band called The Big Bright has a CD of covers from the new wave decade called I Slept Thru the 80s. We’ll hear a surprisingly mellow Duran Duran track from that. But if you want to stay in the 21st century, get ready for new music from…
Interview Podcast
Natalie Merchant Giving Up Everything Video
Natalie Merchant Returns with Self-Titled Album and Haunting Video Natalie Merchant releases her first album of all original music this May. Ahead of that, she’s released a simple, but powerful video for the best song on the album, “Gving Up Everything.” John Diliberto (((echoes))) No Echoes station in your area. You can hear it…
Interview Podcast
Steve Roach in Echoes Podcast
Steve Roach Contemplates the Contemplation of Structures from Silence in Echoes Podcast Over the last 25 years, Steve Roach has been one of the signature artists of Echoes. He wrote our original theme music in 1989 and he was voted one of 20 Icons for 20 Years of Echoes. I’ve known Roach since 1983 when…
Interview Podcast
30 Years of Stillness with Steve Roach
Steve Roach’s Structures From Silence Turns 30 Steve Roach has been one of the signature artists of Echoes. He wrote our original theme music in 1989 and he was voted one of 20 Icons for 20 Years of Echoes. I’ve known Roach since 1983 when I visited his small bungalow in Culver City near Los…
Program Highlights
Circadian Rhythms-Ambient Songs
Today on Echoes new music from S. Carey & Erothyme Coming up on Echoes, we’ll hear music from S. Carey’s Range of Light. Carey is the drummer and backing singer for Bon Iver and while he shares Justin Vernon’s vocal timbre he has his own atmospheric approach to the singer-songwriter paradigm. We’ll also fall into…
Program Highlights
Japanese Spaces-Arizona Skies
Today on Echoes it’s new music from Hiroki Okano and Steve Roach Hiroki Okano was initiated as a Buddhist monk, but he decided to take a different path. Throughout the 1990s, Okano made beautiful , delicately etched albums like Enn , Hearing There and Rainbow Over the Gypsy Hill, some of them on the late-lamented…