While German space music was creating sequencer driven grooves Klaus Schulze created an ambient dreamscape, Mirage: A Winter Landscape in 1977. John Diliberto looks back.
Reviews & Commentary
Klaus Schulze’s Mirage at 40: An Electronic Milestone
Tag: New Age
Playlists
Wednesday, April 26th, 2017-Echoes Program 1717C
We celebrate the 40th anniversary of Klaus Schulze’s epic album, Mirage, an album often cited by electronic musicians like Steve Roach and Michael Shreeve.
Playlists
Friday, April 21st, 2017-Echoes Program 1716E
It’s clear blue skies, flowing brooks and chirping crickets along with synthesizers, guitars and voices when we explore the landscapes of the planet on an Echoes Earth Day Soundscape.
Interview Podcast
Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society in Echoes Podcast
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The Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society is less of a fan club and more of an electronic, deep ambient duo with Garry Hughes of Bombay Dub Orchestra and Harvey Jones.
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Tuesday April 18th, 2017-Echoes Program 1716B
Harmonica isn’t the sound you usually hear in ambient music, but that’s the chosen instrument of Art Patience, a musician from Arizona. He started out, and still plays blues and R&B harmonica licks, but on his recent albums, like The Recognition, he casts his harmonica out on desert southwest Echoes and ambient spaces.
Playlists
Weekend April 15 & 16, 2017: Delia Derbyshire Appr’n Society
The Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society is less of a fan club and more of an electronic, deep ambient duo with Garry Hughes of Bombay Dub Orchestra and Harvey Jones.
Playlists
Friday, April 14, 2017-Echoes Program 1715E
Tangerine Dream and Steve Roach provide the electronic part of a Slow Flow Echoes.
Interview Podcast
Michael Whalen Sleeps and Dreams in Echoes Podcast
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In the Echoes Podcast, composer and keyboardist Michael Whalen talks about how to go to sleep and the music of his latest album, Dream Cycle. It’s not the music of slumber.
Playlists
Tuesday April 11th, 2017-Echoes Program 1715B
Suzanne Ciani came to renown for her New Age music but she’s gone back to her roots with experimental electronic music and the Buchla synthesizer. She plays both live on Echoes.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for March 2017-Daniel Voth-Transcendance
Echoes March Top 25 includes the CD of the Month, Daniel Voth’s Transcendance, as well as Mike Oldfield’s Return to Ommadawn, Lisa Hannigan’s At Swim and Bonobo’s Migration.