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SPACE EXCURSIONS:
THE EARLY PIONEERS
Long before the new age, musicians were traveling the spaceways. Echoes
has talked to many of these pioneers and profiled them over the years.
In this series, you can hear the words and music of six icons of space:Tangerine
Dream, Klaus Schulze, Jean-Michel Jarre, Cluster, Tonto's Expanding Head Band and Vangelis. Each
feature is approximately 7 minutes long.
Read John Diliberto's article about the state of space music today, Time Warped in Space.
| TONTO'S EXPANDING HEAD BAND Thirty years ago, before Tangerine Dream got their first synthesizers and while Brian Eno was still figuring out mascara, Tonto's Expanding Head Band was realizing an album of seminal electronic space music called Zero Time. We visit Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff, fire up Tonto ("The Original New Timbral Orchestra), and go back to Zero Time. listen>> |
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KLAUS SCHULZE An original member of Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel, Schulze is best known for a string of space music albums in the 1970s and 80s with driving sequencer patterns and surreal imagery. In the early 1990s, Klaus looked back on his career and some of the people he influenced, including synthesist Steve Roach, who comments on Schulze's impact. listen>> |
| JEAN-MICHEL JARRE In 1976 Jean-Michel Jarre's Oxygene burst on the scene, promising a brave new world of electronic music that is still bearing fruit two decades later. The French synthesist looks back when he put out Oxygene 7-13. listen>> |
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VANGELIS Vangelis took space music into symphonic dimensions with albums like Heaven and Hell and Albedo 0.39. From a 1982 interview, while it was all still fresh, he looked back on his music and created a spontaneous composition. listen>> |
| TANGERINE DREAM One of the original Berlin school space music bands and still the best known. This early 1990s interview finds an unusual edition of the Dream, with Linda Spa on saxophone adapting to new technology. listen>> |
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CLUSTER One of the most quirky and unique of the German space bands, Cluster sounded like a broken music box from an alien world. Still together after all these years, they band looks back in this 1997 interview during their first ever American Tour. listen>> |
Read John Diliberto's article about the state of space music today, Time Warped in Space.
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