From the 80s to Infinity

Did you miss out on the 1980s? A band called The Big Bright has a CD of covers from the new wave decade called I Slept Thru the 80s. We’ll hear a surprisingly mellow Duran Duran track from that.  But if you want to stay in the 21st century, get ready for new music from Bluetech and his album Cosmic Dubs. It’s coming up tonight on Echoes.

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Gary Numan Splinters – zerO One Codes on Echoes

On Echoes today, new music from Gary Numan.  While everyone was looking the other way, the creator of “Cars,” one of the signature songs of the 80’s New Wave, (and the whipping boy for everyone who hated that music) has forged a new identity merging metal and electronics into songs that are by turns aggressive and anguished.   We had a great two-part interview with him in 2012 and after seeing him live at the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit this year, it’s clear that Gary Numan has been born again, and definitely not in the christian sense. We’ll hear a heartbreaking ballad from his new album, Splinter: Songs from a Broken Mind.

Gary Numan at Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Festival

We’ll also hear new music from zerO One who finally codes a new CD after six years.   sOnar continues his move toward  heavier, dub-step influenced glitch infused sound.  zerO One is Kevin Dooley, and judging from the pictures on his website hes jettisoned a lot of the analog and custom designed gear he used on his early albums like protOtype2.  Hear it tonight on Echoes.

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Tonight on Echoes, Connections from 1967 to 2013.

60’s Psych-Progressions, 70’s Krautrock, New World Fusion
and Ambient Chamber music Tonight on Echoes.

I must be feeling a bit nostalgic today.  I find myself going back to some of my earliest musical influences and to the early days of Echoes.  From the 1960s, I’ve got a song by Donovan, an artist who I think is an underrated influence on contemporary singer-songwriters.  His Sunshine Superman, is, song-for-song, a beautiful document of 60s tripped out psychedelia and optimism.  We’ll hear a tune from that album that looks to the darkside.  Then it’s up to 1969 and the debut from King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King.  Unlike the contemporary editions of this band, early Krimson could knock out a few ballads, especially when Greg Lake was singing the words of Pete Sinfield.   Moving up a decade, I’ll be dialing up some krautrock by Michael Rother from his second album, Sterntaler, with that beautiful guitar sound, the motoric drumming of Jaki Liebezeit and production from the late-Conny Plank.  .

From the early days of Echoes, look for music by Patrick O’Hearn, a musician who has remained a signature artist on the show from day one.   Then there’s an album by Roger Eno & Kate St. John. Roger is Brian’s younger piano playing brother.  St. John played oboe in The Dream Academy.  They made an early album of ambient chamber music called The Familiar before going on to form the chamber rock group, Channel Light Vessel with Bill Nelson.  We’ll hear one of many haunting tracks from The Familiar.

But of course, this is Echoes and I have lots of new music for you.  We’ll hear from the new album by Bombay Dub Orchestra, Tales from the Grand Bazaar as they continue to be masters of eastern fusion.  Morcheeba returns with a new album,  Head Up High  featuring singer Skye Edwards,  and I have new music by Pieter Nooten.  You may remember him from Clan of Xymox, an 80s new wave band on 4AD.  He went on to record a much loved album, Sleeps with Fishes with Michael Brook.  Now he returns with a double CD of ambient chamber music, Haven.

It’s all there and more tonight on Echoes.

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New Moby, Tired Pony, Cranium Fizz

The Mind Bubbles Tonight on Echoes

Moby has a new CD out called Innocents that finds him pursuing the more personal style of song-writing he’s explored on albums like Destroyed  and Wait for Me.  He collaborates with several singers including UK singer, Cold Specks who we’ll hear tonight.  Tired Pony is the semi-supergroup headed up by Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol and including Peter Buck from REM.  Their debut album, The Ghost of the Mountain, manages to be a rootsy singer-songwriter album with atmospheric edges and one inexplicable foray into Krautrock.  Krautrock is a definite influence on Richard Bone’s Cranium Fizz.  It’s a 12″ vinyl  EP that comes with a download option from this veteran electronic artist that taps into a different side of retro-space music.  The sound hear is more reminiscent of German electronic instrumental pop of La Dusseldorf, Mythos, mid-period Cluster and Kraftwerk as well as 1980s electro-punk of Cabaret Voltaire, The Normal and The Human League.  Tune in to Echoes tonight and get your cranium fizzed.

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Frankie Rose Goes Galactic.

Frankie Rose concocts a psychedelic mix of shoegaze moods, New Wave grandiosity and chorale serenity.

Frankie Rose, previously recording as Frankie Rose and the Outs,  was a drummer and singer in Dum Dum Girls and you can hear the Go-Gos-style summer of electro punk joyfulness that group had, but there is a darker more shoegazer edge on her latest album, Interstellar.   It’s not glistening electro-pop.  Rose has an ethereal but powerful voice that stacks up against her big beats.  It’s an evocative combination on songs like “Know Me,” the lead single, which is  both triumphal and yearning.  She loves 80s rhythms, like the alternating electro snare and bass drum 4/4 groove of the contemplative “Daylight Sky.”

Frankie Rose at Echoes

But even with the big beats she can drop into a delicate chorale hymn on “Pair of Wings” and the meditation of “Silver Apples for the Sun.”  Could there be a touch of Enya in her listening?

But Frankie Rose always comes back to the new wave dance  sound, even when it’s couched in psychedelic 60s reverb guitar and Joy Division grooves as on “Moon in My Mind.” Interstellar is a trip into Frankie Rose’s cosmic space.

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