The August Bonus Echoes CD of the Month is “Ghost Stations” by Marconi Union. The acclaimed UK electronic trio takes a deep dive into haunted electronic landscapes.
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August- Bonus CD of the Month #2: Marconi Union-Ghost Stations
Tag: synthesizer
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Merrin Karras “Void” Video
Merrin Karras gives us an epic video and music combination for his song “Void”
Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes: Perseid Starscapes
Four hours of continuous instrumental music for viewing the night sky during the Perseid meteor shower.
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Thursday August 11th, 2016-Echoes Program 1632D
Last October, legendary French electronic musician Jean-Michel Jarre released his collaborative album, Electronica 1: The Time Machine. Now he’s put out the second volume, The Heart of Noise.
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Robert Rich and Jörg Wand’s “Filaments and Fractals”
Ambient composer Robert Rich and visual artist Jörg Wand create a video of fractal artwork to accompany Rich’s “Filaments.”
Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes: Sleeping and Rising
Six hours of continuous instrumental music that traces the ups and downs of nocturnal rhythms.
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Kraftwerk “Autobahn” Video
Kraftwerk’s 1974 classic, “Autobahn” is set to an accelerated car trip across the English countryside.
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016-Echoes Program 1631C
On the next Echoes, a new generation of space musicians when we talk to Ascendant. They’re an electronic duo out of California who have been releasing albums of melodic electronics.
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016-Echoes Program 1631B
Al Jewer plays flutes. Andy Mitran plays keyboards and percussion. When they aren’t crafting commercial jingles in Chicago, they create music that ranges from world fusion to pure ambient. Winners of a ZMR Award in 2016, they talk about their music on Echoes.
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Suzanne Ciani’s Buchla Excursions
Suzanne Ciani is known for her romantic keyboard compositions, but she started out as an avant-garde electronic composer. You can hear that side on a new album, Buchla Concerts 1975. John Diliberto looks back at this seminal work and time.