The Goth sound has permeated music since the early 1980s. Author and musician John Robb created a definitive chronicle of this movement in his book, The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth.
Electronic music Italian style when we talk to Caterina Barbieri. She’s a solo artist who works in improvisation and modular synthesis that weaves through EDM, Minimalism and sequencer drive.
Seduction & entrancement are part of Echoes June CD of the Month. Travelers Cloth by Robert Rich is an album of sensual moods threaded on flutes, percussion, ambient lap-steel & synthesizers.
We talk to Ladytron, who have been making electrified pop sounds for all of the 21st Century. Helen Marnie and Daniel Hunt tell us their story and about their latest album, Time’s Arrow.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, electronic music by Colin Rayment: Polyphonic Memories II. It’s in the Berlin School style of an artist from that era, Robert Schroeder, who also has a recent album.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by David Helpling. His album of ambient orchestrations for guitar and synthesizer is called IN. We’ll also hear music by Ben Lukas Boysen.
Some of the most instantly recognizable notes in modern music are from Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells. We celebrate its 50th anniversary as Mike Oldfield and others look back on this epic work.
Mike Oldfield is the 11th of 30 Icons of Echoes. We go through his catalog and Rank his 10 Best albums. And #1 isn’t Tubular Bells. We also rank all 6 iterations of Tubular Bells.