Yoga Records label owner Douglas McGowan has set out to re-examine New Age music from its Indie, experimental roots. He talks about his compilations I Am the Center and The Microcosm on Echoes.
Syrinx was an obscure Canadian band making an electronic space music a few years before Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze’s seminal works. They released to albums in 1970 and 1971 and then faded away.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, it’s new music by guitar synthesist Mark Dwane and former Tangerine Dream member Paul Haslinger and his score to Halt and Catch Fire.
Natalie Merring records as Weyes Blood and she’s released a gorgeous album of dream pop called Front Row Seat to Earth. John Diliberto brings us that and music by Sin Fang, an Icelandic musician who hangs with Sigur Ros.
Danish singer Agnes Obel’s third album, Citizen of Glass is a conceptual work that takes the fragile singer into new musical terrain, from muted pianos to choirs. She talks about it on Echoes.
Syrinx was an obscure Canadian band making an electronic space music a few years before Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze’s seminal works. They released to albums in 1970 and 1971 and then faded away.
In the early days of Trip-Hop, right alongside Massive Attack, was the trio Morcheeba with Skye Edwards on vocals over the trippy, seductive grooves and moods of the Godfrey brothers.
Coming up on a Slow Flow Echoes it’s music from Gustaf Fjelstrom, whose main instrument is electric bass. On his new album, Intention, he uses it to create a lush and melodic post-rock sound.