Jeff Oster has taken his trumpet and flugelhorn into New Age and ambient directions over the years. On his new album, Next, he explores some ambient jazz. He talks about tone, funk and ambience on Echoes.
On the next Echoes, keyboardist Ryan Farish takes a more rhythmic, driving approach on a new release called Spectrum while the European trio Broekhuis, Keller and Schoenwalder go retro-space.
John Diliberto brings us another Slow Flow Echoes, an all instrumental soundscape to put you into your dreams.
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Dieter Moebius was a founding member of influential German bands Cluster and Harmonia, creating a sound that was known as Krautrock and collaborating with Brian Eno. Moebius died on July 20 at the age of 71. We go back to an interview with Moebius and bandmate Hans-Joachim Roedelius from 1996.
In the world of space and ambient music, the German group called Cluster are eccentric wizards, musical alchemists who defied traditions, even the ones they helped create in 1970s Berlin. One half of this influential band, Dieter Moebius, died on July 20 at the age of 71. We listen back to an interview with Cluster from 1997, and hear some music from Cluster, Harmonia, and Cluster and Eno.
Ólafur Arnalds is one of the signature composers of ambient chamber music, and in the last year, he’s released an album based on the compositions of Chopin, scored BBC TV series, Broadchurch and recorded an all electronic project as Kiasmos.
It’s a Slow Flow Echoes with new music from James Hood who has a new double CD of Hang Drum moods called Pure Ceremony. We’ll also hear ex-King Crimson violinist David Cross reworking a composition from that band called “Starless.”
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Forrest Fang is a classically trained musician who plays instruments from around the world in a surreal global symphony. He takes us on a global journey that starts in his bedroom.
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Kristin Hoffmann’s album The Human Compass is a spiritual exploration through a tumultuous time in her life. On a new album, Amazing Space, she scores an electro-acoustic journey that accompanies images of the universe from the Hubble space telescope.
Coming up on Echoes, Sufjan Stevens, the acclaimed and idiosyncratic songwriter goes back to his folk roots, but with a spacey sound on Carrie and Lowell.
