Mark Dwane, who died in July 2025, was an architect of sonic delights, a composer of epic adventures and a guitar-synth master. Here are five of his best recordings.
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5 Best Mark Dwane CDs
Tag: synthesizer
Reviews & Commentary
Obituary: Mark Dwane 1954-2025
Mark Dwane is a guitar-synthesist who created music of orchestral grandeur from another planet. He’s now gone at the age of 70, leaving a trove of cinematic music.
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Thursday, Aug 7, 2025 – Music by Kelly Lee Owens
We enter a dream state with Kelly Lee Owens. She’s an electronic musician and singer who hovers between dreampop and EDM. John Diliberto drops a couple of tracks off her album Dreamstate.
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Wednesday, Aug 6, 2025 – Japanese Breakfast and More
New music by Japanese Breakfast, the Philadelphia dream pop band fronted by Michelle Zauner. They have a new pastoral single off their album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women).
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Common Community CD to Benefit Echoes in an Ambient Way.
Common Community is a benefit CD for Echoes put together by Wayfarer Music Group featuring prime cuts from their many ambient artists.
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Tuesday, Aug 5, 2025 – Music from Bill Nelson
Music from Bill Nelson in what seems to be an endless stream of new music. This one is called Studio Cadet and echoes the early 60s guitar band sound of The Ventures and The Shadows.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 June: Marconi Union Lands at the Top
Marconi Union sticks the landing with their album, The Fear of Never Landing, Echoes June CD of the Month. AvaWaves just misses and AESEAS eyes the top in Echoes Top 25 Releases for June 2025.
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Friday, August 1, 2025 – New Music
On the Next Echoes, music from Course, the project of Jessica Robbins. On the album Hue Mirror, she turns her medical journey into deeply-felt songs of both despair and hope. We’ll hear a couple of tracks along her journey.
Playlists
Thursday, July 17, 2025 – Echoes Program 2528D
It’s psychedelic sounds distilled through synthesizers on Echoes when we hear the latest album by the Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society. Their new album is called Psychedelia.
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Thursday, July 31, 2025 – Slow Flow Echoes
The electronic sounds of Lisa Bella Donna. She’s a musician with keyboard chops mixing soaring lead lines with modular synthesizer sequences in a euphoric swirl of sound.