Echoes Artists Who Left the Planet in 2016
We’ve lost many artists this year, and many who have contributed to the soundscape of Echoes over our 27 years. Some of them are icons of our age: David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, George Martin, Keith Emerson & Greg Lake. Others ploughed idioscyncratic and experimental terrain, crushing the envelope of contemporary music: Pauline Oliveros, Don Buchla, Tony Conrad. While others just made some great music. Most of these are Echoes artists, but there are a couple, like Gato Barbieri, who were just important to me I have a Spotify Playlist below: Ascension-Deaths in 2016. Hopefully there will be no additions.
Passenger Manifest for Last Ascension Ship Out of 2016
Lemmy (December 24, 1945 – December 28, 2015) of Motorhead & Hawkwind (technically died in 2015, but as Lemmy Kilmister might say, “Close enough for Rock and Roll” or alternatively, “Who gives a fuck.” Represented on Spotify by Hawkwind.
David Bowie (January 8, 1947 – January 10, 2016)
Chris Squire of Yes (March 4, 1948 – June 27, 2015)
Gilli Smyth of Gong (June 1, 1933 – August 22, 2016)
Jack Miller (1937 – May 12, 1953 (producer/engineer) Represented on Spotify by R. Carlos Nakai)
Isao Tomita (April 22, 1932 – May 5, 2016)
Prince (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) (missing from Spotify)
Leonard Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016)
Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016)
Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane (March 17, 1941 – January 28, 2016)
Signe Toly Anderson of Jefferson Airplane (September 15, 1941 – January 28, 2016)
George Martin (Represented by The Beatles (January 3, 1926 – March 8, 2016)
Attrel Cordes/Prince Be of PM Dawn (May 15, 1970 – June 17, 2016)
Jean-Jacques Perrey (January 20, 1929 – November 4, 2016)
Gato Barbieri (28 November 1932 – 2 April 2016)
Rob Wasserman (April 1, 1952 – June 29, 2016)
Tony Conrad (March 7, 1940 – April 9, 2016)
Alan Vega of Suicide (June 23, 1938 – July 16, 2016)
Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer (November 2, 1944 – March 11, 2016)
Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake and Palmer (November 10, 1947 – December 7, 2016)
Bobby Hutcherson (January 27, 1941 – August 15, 2016)
Don Buchla (April 17, 1937 – September 14, 2016)
Rudy Van Gelder (Engineer, represented on Spotify by John Coltrane) (November 2, 1924 – August 25, 2016)
Roy Albrighton of Nektar (26 July 2016)
Giorgio Gomelsky (28 February 1934 – 13 January 2016) (Producer Yardbirds, Soft Machine, Material, represented on Spotify by The Soft Machine)