Zone Music Awards 2018by John Diliberto 5/15/2018The ZMR Music Awards descended on New Orleans this year, a quiet counterpoint to the Bourbon Street mania happening a few blocks away. There were no Hurricanes or “yard-long” drinks at this event, nor beads tossed to woman flashing their assets. This is a more genteel, contemplative and sedate…
The ZMR Awards acknowledge electronic, ambient and New Age music. We’ll bring you this year’s nominees in categories that span from Best Chill album to Best Neo-Classical album.
AeTopus is the name used by Bryan Tewell Hughes to create his ethno-electronic music soundscapes. He won a Zone Music Award in 2012. He has a new album called Totem Totum.
Ron Korb has been making instrumental world music for 3 decades. The Canadian musician and composer plays flutes form all over the world, but especially Asia. He weaves his flute melodies into exotic tapestries that conjure up a world far away and sometimes a world of the imagination.
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Dave Preston talks about his influences, current projects, and how his humble beginnings, recording with just a Shure SM-58, led to working with Justin Timberlake and his own ambient guitar albums.
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Ron Korb explains how he went from playing the plastic recorder as a child to becoming a grammy nominated world flute master. His latest album is Asia Beauty.
Ron Korb has been making instrumental world music for 3 decades. The Canadian musician and composer plays flutes form all over the world, but especially Asia. He weaves his flute melodies into exotic tapestries that conjure up a world far away and sometimes a world of the imagination.
There aren’t a lot of prizes for ambient, electronic and new age music. But one of them is the ZMR Music Awards which are voted on by radio broadcasters.