Peter Gregson is a classically-trained cellist, but he goes in an ambient chamber music direction on his recording Patina. It mixes synthesizers, electronic processing and orchestral strings.
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Tuesday, Feb 1, 2022 – Peter Gregson Interview
Tag: synthesizer
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Monday, Jan 31, 2022 – Hollan Holmes CD of the Month
The Echoes February CD of the Month takes us into deep space with Emerald Waters by Hollan Holmes. He creates landscape paintings of Texas by day and electronic spacescapes by night.
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Wednesday, Jan 26, 2022 – The Global Fusion of Tropo
Downtempo global fusion erupts when we hear Tropo, a project of violinist Tyson Leonard. He mixes electronics with violin and all kinds of global elements on Siente tu Corazon.
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Friday, Jan 21, 2022 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Erik Wøllo. The Norwegian guitarist and electronic artist has a new album called Sojourns. We’ll also hear the electronic designs of Time Wharp.
CD of the Month
Echoes Jan 2022 CD of the Month: The Great Northern
The Great Northern takes classic analog synthesizers and sculpts a nightscape sky that ascends to the heavens on his debut album, Nocturnes.
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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.
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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.
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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.