Mark McGuire’s Progressive Reinvention in Echoes Podcast

Mark McGuire’s Prog-Rock Roots and Metaphysical Designs
in Echoes Podcast

If you thought Toto had taken over Mike Oldfield’s body on his recent album, Man on the Rocks, then you should hear Mark McGuire’s Along the Way.  Every time I put it on I feel like I’m taking a trip into the future via my past.  Elements of the 70s progressive rock music I love from Popol Vuh, Ash Ra Tempel, Mike Oldfield and Jade Warrior emerge in his music.  But Mark McGuire isn’t recreating this sound so much as reinventing it for his own vocabulary.   He was formerly in Emeralds, an electronic band with deep echoes of German space music but on his own, he’s made a statement recording that goes beyond that.  It was the Echoes CD of the Month for March and you can read a review and listen to tracks from it here.   He talks about it in Echoes Podcast.

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Mark McGuire Talks Music & Metaphysics on Echoes

A Grandchild of 70s Progressive Rock

Every time I put on Mark McGuire’s Along the Way I feel like I’m taking a trip into the future via my past.  Elements of the 70s progressive rock music I love from Popol Vuh, Ash Ra Tempel, Mike Oldfield and Jade Warrior emerge in his music.  But Mark McGuire isn’t recreating this sound so much as reinventing it for his own vocabulary.   He was formerly in Emeralds, an electronic band with deep echoes of German space music but on his own, he’s made a statement recording that goes beyond that.  It was the Echoes CD of the Month for March and you can read a review and listen to tracks from it here.   He talks about it tonight on Echoes.

John Diliberto (((echoes)))

Join the Echoes CD of the Month Club.  Mark McGuire’s Along the Way is our March CD of the Month.  You’ll get great CDs and help support Echoes at the same time.   You can do it all right here.

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THE ECHOES LIVING ROOM CONCERTS VOLUME 19

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Darkside of the Beach Boys on Echoes Tonight

From Tonight Sky to Darkside on Echoes T0night

Darkside is a duo from where else? Brooklyn.  Electronic musician Nicolas Jaar and guitarist Dave Harrington spin out psychedelic electronica landscapes with moods that reference German avant-rockers, Can.  Catch them live if you can.  They did an amazing set at this year’s Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit.

Darkside’s  expansive, partly improvised sound is a contrast and counterpart to Tonight Sky, a project put together by Jason Holstrom in Seattle.  He combines Beach Boys-style harmonies with skyhook melodies and darker, electronica modes.

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THE ECHOES LIVING ROOM CONCERTS VOLUME 19

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Still Tangerine Dreaming

Tangerine Dream from Electric Mandarine Tour

There is a nice review of Tangerine Dream’s show in NYC by Jon Pareles in the New York Times.  Nice to see a balanced POV in the mainstream media. Apparently, while they had a bigger venue in New York than Philadelphia, they did not have a bigger audience.  Only a few hundred according to reports.

However…

I’m seeing that we really got gypped in Philly regarding playing time and set-list.  I think they played about half of this at their Philadelphia show at the Underground Arts Theater. .

TANGERINE DREAM – The Electric Mandarine Tour2012
NEW YORK – BEST BUY THEATRE – SAT 7 JULY 2012
SET 1
1. The Sensational Fall Of The Master Builder
2. Dolphin Dance
3. Cliffs Of Sydney
4. Song Of The Whale (to Dusk)
5. Ayumi’s Loom
6. Logos
7. Marmontel Riding On A Clef
8. Oriental Haze
9. Love On A Real Train
10. Underwater Sunlight
11. Homeless
12. Going West
13. One Night In Space
14. The Silver Boots Of Bartlett Green
SET 2
1. Ricochet Piano + Ricochet Song
2. Hoël Dhat The Alchemist
3. Lady Monk
4. Long Island
5. Blue Bridge
6. Alchemy Of The Heart
7. Warsaw In The Sun
8. Horizon
9. Teetering Scale
10. Transition
11. Girl On The Stairs
12. Loved By The Sun
13. Stratosfear
ENCORE:
PHAEDRA
CRYSTAL SHIP

“Stratosfear!”  “Phaedra!” “Horizon!”  We wuz robbed.

~© 2012 John Diliberto ((( echoes )))

If you like Tangerine Dream then you want to check out the latest album from Marconi Union called Different Colours.   Click on the link for review and several complete tracks.  You get great CDs like this by becoming a member of the Echoes CD of the Month Club.  Follow the link and see what you’ve been missing.

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Nektar, Brainticket & Huw Lloyd-Langton Space Out

Progressive Rock Tour in a Psychedelic Haze

For those of you still suffering Progressive Rock withdrawal with the cancellation of this summer’s Nearfest Festival, you can get a temporary fix with the Space Rock Invasion Tour. This little caravan brings together a trio of classic progressive rock artists with psychedelic roots, including Nektar, Brainticket, and Huw Lloyd-Langton .

Nektar was perhaps the last band to emerge from the golden age of progressive music.  Englishman Roye Albrighton put the group together in Hamburg, Germany in 1969 and their early sound was more psychedelic than progressive.  But their concept album, Remember the Future, put them solidly in the ProgRock wheelhouse with a sprawling and dynamic work. Here they are in their prime.

To my ears, the groups reached its zenith with the 1975 album, Recycled, which was anything but.  Produced by Larry “Synergy” Fast, who also plays on it,  it is at once their most expansive and most concise work to date.  The group has undergone many personnel changes, but a new band has formed around Albrighton and they’ll be playing tracks from across their career including recent music and maybe something from the forthcoming Juggernaut.

Here’s a live video of recent vintage:

Brainticket was one of those second-tier Krautrock groups. Like Nektar, they bridged the transition from psychedelic to progressive rock having formed in 1968.  They have something of a paranoid take on the future and their music is marked by aggressive rhythms and often avant-garde sound fields.  This is their first U.S. tour.

Opening Space Rock Invasion will be guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton .  He was an original member of Hawkwind the premiere psychedelic space band and he’s played and recorded with them off and on ever since.   He’s also had a long-running solo career and tends to be a little more rocking.  You would think it’s sure to be reverb drenched, fuzz-fractured and loud, but………this will be an acoustic solo show.

The Space Rock Invasion Tour just launched last night in New York.  Subsequent dates include:

Thu 8/18 Foxboro Ma Usa – Showcase Live
Fri 8/19 Springfield Va Usa – Jaxx Concert Hall
Sat 8/20 Lancaster Pa Usa – Chameleon
Sun 8/21 Sellersville, Pa Sellersville Theater
Wed 8/24 Milwaukee Wi Usa – Shank Hall
Thu 8/25 St Louis Mo Usa – Fubar
Fri 8/26 Lincolnshire Il Usa – Viper Alley
Sat 8/27 Darien, Illinois – Q Sports
Sun 8/28 Cleveland Oh Usa – Beachland Ballroom
Thurs 9/1 Santa Rosa, California – Last Day Saloon
Fri 9/2 Capistrano Ca Usa – Coach House
Sat 9/3 West Hollywood Ca Usa– Key Club

I’ll be catching their show at Sellersville Theater in Sellersville, PA. It’s not Nearfest, but all these bands would fit on a Nearfest bill and Nektar has played the festival.  Early reports from New York’s show are positive.  Hopefully this will hold you till next year.  I’m hearing good noises from the Nearfest camp that the original founders have retaken the reins and they’re gearing up for 2012.

John Diliberto ((( echoes )))