Suzanne Ciani was a leading figure in New Age music with albums like Velocity of Love and Pianissimo. But behind her sweet, classically derived melodies was an avant-gardist who came of age with the Buchla modular synthesizer in the 1970s.
Things were certainly strange 35 years ago in southern California, the cultural milieu that populates the new video by Washed Out. It’s called “Get Lost” and you’ll get lost in it’s animated imagery.
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After abandoning synthesizers for many years, Suzanne Ciani has returned to electronic music, creating improvisations on her first electronic instrument, the Buchla Modular Synthesizer.
Suzanne Ciani was a leading figure in New Age music with albums like Velocity of Love and Pianissimo. But behind her sweet, classically derived melodies was an avant-gardist who came of age with the Buchla modular synthesizer in the 1970s.
Six Hours of instrumental music ebbing and flowing in waves of ambient sound. It includes music from George Winston, Marconi Union, Suzanne Ciani, Erik Wollo, Klaus Schulze, and many others.
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Goldfrapp is the English dreampop band of Alison Goldfrapp & Will Gregory. On Silver Eye, they explore themes of ritual, magic and social politics. We talk to them in the Echoes Podcast.
On the next Echoes it’s Nordic Dreams. From Sigur Ros to Agnes Obel, Erik Wøllo to Ane Brun we’ll hear the sound coming out of Scandinavian musicians that seems to emerge from the other side of consciousness.
The Zone Music Awards honor electronic, ambient, new age and contemporary instrumental music. They just held their annual awards show in New Orleans. John Diliberto zones in on the winners.
Coming up on Echoes, it’s new music by Sohn, an English singer-songwriter living in Vienna and turning his songs into a rustic ambient sound on his new album, Rennen.
On their seventh album, Silver Eye, the English duo, Goldfrapp tackle themes of musical and sexual transformation. They talk about their metaphysical and electronic journey on Echoes.