The Great Northern takes classic analog synthesizers and sculpts a nightscape sky that ascends to the heavens on his debut album, Nocturnes.
CD of the Month
Echoes Jan 2022 CD of the Month: The Great Northern – Nocturnes
Tag: synthesizer
Coming Up
Friday, Jan 14, 2022 – New music from Vangelis and E.Vax
Space is the place this year and Vangelis has the album for it. It’s called Juno to Jupiter and it is in the classic Vangelis mode. We’ll also hear music from E.Vax, which is Evan Peter Mast.
Best Of
Best Ambient/Electronic Albums of 2021
This list is not like other lists. All “best of” lists are circumscribed by what music the listers were exposed to and personal tastes. In our case, it’s constrained by what we play on Echoes.
Playlists
Tuesday, Dec 28, 2021 – Echoes Program 2152B
Steve Roach was voted #2 of 30 Icons of Echoes. John Diliberto looks across the career of this influential artist who has gone from Berlin School sequencers to techno-tribal and back again.
Coming Up
Weekend, Jan 8-9, 2022 – The Great Northern CD of the Month
The January CD of the Month is Nocturnes by Ben Jackson recording as The Great Northern. He usually produces country and pop in Nashville, but we’ll hear him as an electronic ambient composer.
Coming Up
Fri, Jan 7, 2022 – Michael Rother & Vittoria Maccabruni
An icon of German electronic music returns. guitarist Michael Rother from Harmonia, and Neu! has a new album with Vittoria Maccabruni called As Long As the Light.
Coming Up
Thursday, Jan 6, 2022 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by The Album Leaf, revisited. Jimmy Lavalle has gone back to his 2001 album, One Day I’ll Be On Time, and reworked it as One Day XX
Coming Up
Wednesday, Jan 5, 2022 – Music from Lunar Noon
We’ll hear music by Lunar Noon, a choral dream pop project of Michelle Zheng. Her debut album is Symbolic Creature. We also have music from Robot Koch’s Sand And Foam project remixed.
Coming Up
Monday, Jan 3, 2022 – The Great Northern CD of the Month
The January CD of the Month is Nocturnes by Ben Jackson recording as The Great Northern. He usually produces country and pop in Nashville, but we’ll hear him as an electronic ambient composer.
Coming Up
Weekend, Jan 1-2, 2022 – 30 Icons: Brian Eno & Steve Roach
Brian Eno & Steve Roach were voted #1 and #2 in our 30 Icons of Echoes. This weekend, we revisit these influential icons who have shaped the soundscape of Echoes and beyond.