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When compact discs were introduced in the early 80s, there was a rush to issue the back catalogs of musicians. By the time we launched Echoes in 1989, it was obvious that some of our favorite albums would remain forever vinyl-only. So we produced an occasional feature called "Ancient Echoes," in which we'd choose an influential or favorite musician whose albums we felt shouldn't be abandoned in the shifting format landscape, and listen back to a few tracks. ~Kimberly Haas |
| Long before world music became a fashionable buzzword, Stephan Micus was exploring the instruments from other cultures, playing rababs, neys, tuned flowerpots and shakuhachis, fashioning his own brand of world music. We look back at his career, most of which has been chronicled by the ECM label, in an Ancient Echo. | Tom Newman is best known for producing Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, but he's also made his own music over the years, first with the psychedelic trio, July,then on a pair of albums, Bayou Moon and Aspects for the Coda label in the late 1980s. In 1994, we listened to them in this Ancient Echo. =listen= |
| Just before Enya turned herself into a vocal choir, Claire Hamill was doing the same thing on her album, Voices. This veteran folk artist who'd been recording since the early 1970s, created one of the most ethereal albums of 1987 when she massed her voice into studio created choirs. We'll be hearing music from this classic album and its follow-up in an Ancient Echo. | We dip back into the music of Bill Nelson, who used to lead the rock group Be-Bop Deluxe, but who's released dozens of albums of ambient dreamscapes, quirky pop, soundtracks for theater and an audio version of automatic writing. =listen= |
 Larry Fast =listen= |
Audion Orphans (First Aired February 1994) In the mid-1980's many record labels began jumping on the new age space wagon. One of the most ambitious was the Audion label. It was curated by synthesist Larry Fast and under his guidance recordings by Synergy, Wendy Carlos, Jim Bartz, and Barry Cleveland were released. Audion folded when its parent company, Jem Records, went bankrupt, leaving many artists record-label orphans. A few artists like Bartz and Cleveland have since recovered their masters. We reach into the void for an hour of lost music from the Audion orphans. |
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An Ancient Echo From David Borden and Mother Mallard (First Aired January 1994) One of the first live synthesizer ensembles wasn't Tangerine Dream, but Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, led by composer David Borden. Mounting the stage with three massive Moog Modular synthesizers, they spun out their intricate cyclical melodies. We listen back to their now classic albums for this Ancient Echo. =listen= |
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An Ancient Echo From Orchestra of the Eighth Day (First Aired June 1994) The Orchestra of the Eighth Day was just a pair of Polish musicians who came to the U.S. in the early 1980s, recorded one stunning album for the Flying Fish label and disappeared. They played a curious mix of instruments including the Fidola by Fisher, a bowed zither, recorders, piano, and guitar. Their music has that "ancient music from the future sound" of Uakti, but with a Polish traditional flavor. |
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| An Ancient Echo From Stomu Yamash'ta (First Aired October 1993) Stomu Yamash'ta was the infant terrible of avant-garde percussion in the 1960s, before turning to synthesizers and creating a more meditative sound. In 1993 we produced this hour-long soundscape of his music, including the rare Iroha series of music created for a Buddhist temple. =listen= |
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