The Hang Drum is an instrument that looks like a flying saucer or two woks tuck together. With tuned indentations and/or bumps it makes the warmest most serene sound that’s found a following among world music players, jazz bands and New Age artists.
James Hood played drums with The Pretenders and recorded tripped out electronica as Moodswings, but his new passion is the Hang drum which looks like a flying saucer. He has a new double CD of Hang drum music called Pure Ceremony.
Ozric Tentacles is a band fueled by 60s psychedelia, initialized by 70s space rock and hyper-charged by 1980s rave culture.
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.
Ozric Tentacles is a band fueled by 60s psychedelia, initialized by 70s space rock and hyper-charged by 1980s rave culture.
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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.
It’s a different sound of America for Independence Day weekend. It’s a sound steeped in the landscapes of the US from the Grand Canyon to the forests of Maine, all steeped in the sound of Ambient Americana, that unique sound merging country twang and ambient atmospheres. This soundscape for July 4th is one of twangquility, only at Echoes On-Line.
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Robert Rich is a critically acclaimed electronic musician who has been recording for 35 years. He takes us from his roots listening to wind harps, minimalists and space music to his own music recorded 20 minutes into the future.
