PRI: Echoes Interviews
By Echoes
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Description
A weekly musician interview from Echoes, the soundscape of ambient, new acoustic and world fusion music on public radio and on-line.
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Echoes feature - Steve Roach | Steve Roach is an icon of modern electronic and space music, and 2014 marks the 30th anniversary of his signature work, Structures from Silence. We go back 30 years with Roach and connect that early recording to his current music. | 4/10/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Mike Oldfield | The creator of Tubular Bells is enjoying a renaissance with his triumphant appearance at the 2012 London Summer Olympics opening ceremony, and the 40th anniversary of his signature work. He rocks out on a new CD called Man on the Rocks. We talk tubular bells and beats. | 4/3/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Linnea Olsson | Swedish cellist and singer Linnea Olsson talks about looping cello and the chamber pop of her debut album, Ah! | 3/27/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Priscilla Ahn | Singer-songwriter Priscilla Ahn takes a new electronic direction on her CD, This Is Where We Are. It's also a love letter to her husband, actor Michael Weston. She talks about it in this intimate and candid interview. | 3/20/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Lunasa | The Irish band Lunasa talks about keeping the spirit of Irish traditional music alive in the 21st century. | 3/13/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Juliette Commagere | Juliette Commagere breaks the singer-songwriter hummin' and strummin' modality with her album of electronic songs called Human. We talk about the soul of the machine. | 3/6/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - James Hood | He played drums with the Pretenders and created tripped-out electronica as Moodswings. But now James Hood is an evangelist for the Hang, a metal hand drum that looks like a flying saucer. He talks about his Hang conversion and new double CD, Ceremony. | 2/27/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Tangerine Dream | Tangerine Dream's 1974 album Phaedra is the Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart's Club Band of space music. Everything changed after they reinvented the concept of electronic music. We'll hear interviews with artists influenced by the album and excepts from this epic recording. | 2/20/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Alan Howarth | Boo! - Fright is an element in a lot of the movies Alan Howarth scores, including several Halloween films and Escape from New York. We'll talk to this composer about electronic music in films. | 2/13/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Silver Apples | From the haze of the psychedelic 60s, we pull out Silver Apples, the first electronic pop band. We'll talk to founder Simeon who made electronic music without synthesizers. | 2/6/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Bombay Dub Orchestra | Bombay Dub Orchestra goes to the source when they bring Reggae rhythm legends drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare into their new CD, Tales from the Grand Bazaar. Founders Garry Hughes and Andrew T. MacKay talk about a merging of Bombay, Istanbul and Kingston. | 1/30/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Tonight Sky | Tonight Sky is Jason Holstrom, who has composed an ambient song-cycle based in Beach Boys harmonies and electronica modalities. We visit his Seattle studio where he plugs in synthesizers and plucks ukuleles. | 1/23/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Darkside | Darkside is the duo of guitarist Dave Harrington and electronic musician Nicolas Jaar. They're creating improvised 21st century space music with one foot in EDM and another in Pink Floyd. | 1/16/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Matt Borghi and Michael Teager | Ambient guitarist Matt Borghi and saxophonist Michael Teager talk about improvisations in ambience. | 1/9/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Pure Bathing Culture | Interview: Pure Bathing Culture The Portland Oregon based duo Pure Bathing Culture talk about their electronica sounds, the voice of Sarah Vesprille and their debut album, Moon Tides. | 12/26/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Jherek Bishoff | Jherek Bischoff makes an ambient pop music that charms unsuspecting listeners with its subtle grace, wry humor and a touch of irony. His album Composed includes singers David Byrne and Caetano Veloso. | 12/19/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Moby | Moby talks about his trilogy of recordings - Wait for Me, Destroyed and Innocents. They're albums that took the electronic pioneer into a more personal and introspective direction. | 12/12/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Euphoria | Euphoria is the rustic electronica persona of Ken Ramm, who mixes blues and country slide guitar with electronic arrangements. He has two new albums out: E4 Instrumental, and E4 Vocal. We talk to Ramm and singer Robyn Dell'Unto. | 12/5/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Tom Griesgraber and Bert Lams | Bert Lams is one of the guitarists from the California Guitar Trio. Tom Griesgraber plays Chapman Stick. They talk about their duets and the concept behind their CD, Unnamed Lands. | 11/28/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Anoushka Shankar | Sitarist Anoushka Shankar remembers her father, Ravi Shankar on an exquisite new CD called Traces of You recorded with her sister, Norah Jones and producer Nitin Sawhney. She talks about her sitar-centric world fusion, rage at rape, and loss. | 11/21/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Darshan Ambient | Darshan Ambient is Michael Allison, a multi-instrumentalist who played bass with Richard Hell and Nona Hendryx before finding his heart in ambient music. His album, Little Things, was the Echoes September CD of the Month. He talks about his ambient fusion of world music, electronics and Miles Davis-style Jazz. | 11/14/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Still Corners | Still Corners is a critically-acclaimed Dream-pop band from England. They talk about their album, Strange Pleasures with influences ranging from Krautrock to horror films. | 11/7/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Lou Reed - Metal Machine Meditations. | You may not think of Lou Reed, who passed away on October 27, 2013, as a meditative kind of guy, but the founding member of The Velvet Underground and purveyor of proto-punk songs, created an electronic CD designed for meditation and body work. In this Echoes interview from 2007, Lou Reed talked about the ambient spaces of his recording called Hudson River Wind Meditations. | 10/29/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Eklipse | Take a German string quartet prone to Victorian lingerie and S and M attire and put them behind pop tunes and alt-rock songs and you have Eklipse. We take the eye-patches and makeup off and talk about the music of Eklipse. | 10/24/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit | The Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit is one of the biggest electronic festivals in the country covering music from Nine Inch Nails to the first electronic rock band, Silver Apples. Ashley Capps, the founder of the Summit talks to John Diliberto about soldering the wires of the forthcoming three day music event. | 10/17/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Ulrich Schnauss and Mark Peters | Ulrich Schnauss is one of the principal architects of downtempo electronica. Guitarist Mark Peters heads the band called Engineers - with whom Schnauss has played. They talk about their latest collaboration, Tomorrow Is Another Day. | 10/10/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Mree | Imagine Enya mixed with ambient guitar band Hammock and you have an idea of the intoxicating sound of Mree. We talk to the 19 year old singer-songwriter about the dreamiest of dream pop. | 10/3/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Azam Ali and Loga R Torkian | Singer Azam Ali and string player Loga R. Torkian, from the Persian-fusion group Niyaz, talk about their duo CD, Lamentation of Swans - A Journey Towards Silence. | 9/26/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Una | The LA Trip-Hop-Lounge trio talks about their mix of electronics, scratching and the arch vocals of Jennifer Nice. | 9/19/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Ane Brun | Norwegian singer-songwriter Ane Brun creates a dreamy, folk-based music. She looks back on her 10 year career and new double CD retrospective titled Songs 2003-2013. | 9/12/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Arborea | The husband and wife duo of Shanti and Buck Curran talk about the psychedelic tinged folk they make as Arborea. | 9/5/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Steve Kilbey and Martin Kennedy | It's a meeting of alt-rock and ambience when Steve Kilbey and Martin Kennedy get together on their CD You Are Everything. Kilbey is the lead singer and guitarist from The Church. Kennedy heads up the ambient rock group, All India Radio. Kilbey and Kennedy talk about their collaboration. | 8/29/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Olivier Libaux | Olivier Libaux is a co-founder of Nouvelle Vague, a French project that records lounge versions of Punk and New Wave songs. Libaux steps out on his own with the CD titled Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age, reinventing songs by that hard rock band. He turns them into introspective dreampop with a host of guest singers. Libaux talks about his Echoes CD of the Month for July. | 8/22/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Laki Mera | Laki Mera is a Scottish dream-pop band who follow in the tradition of bands like Beach House and The Cocteau Twins. We talk to them about their new album, Turn All Memory to White Noise. | 8/15/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Melorman - Waves | Melorman – Waves - the Echoes CD of the Month. August just got chilled with electronic music from Greece that has little to do with Yanni or Vangelis but a lot to do with downtempo electronic moods. We'll hear this highly melodic and propulsive album as the Echoes August CD of the Month. | 8/8/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Rachel Zeffira | Rachel Zeffira is a former operatic soprano who now vocalizes in caressing whispers. She makes an enchanting and haunting dream pop, telling tales of suicide and lost love, placing it all in a chamber music setting. She doesn't like to reveal the meanings of the songs on her album, The Deserters, but she does, on Echoes. | 8/1/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Marconi Union and Jah Wobble | In a surprising collaboration, English ambient band Marconi Union teams up with dub bassist Jah Wobble, best known for his work with Public Image, Ltd. They talk about their album of deep-dub space music. | 7/25/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Northcape | Northcape is the recording persona of English musician Alastair Brown. He's one of those musicians who took piano lessons and then discovered synthesizers. He talks about his music and latest album, Exploration and Ascent. | 7/18/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Yes Is The Answer | Marc Weingarten and Tyson Cornell are Progressive Rock fans and they've edited a collection of personal essays about Prog Rock. Contributors such as novelist Rick Moody and music critic Jim DeRogatis write about their mixed feelings about Progressive Rock. We'll talk with Weingarten and Cornell about the mixture of love and embarrassment so many writers feel for the genre. | 7/11/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Hans Joachim Roedelius and Lloyd Cole | Hans-Joachim Roedelius, the founder of the German groups Cluster and Harmonia, and the former rocker who had hits as Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, get together for an album of antique ambient dreams. | 7/4/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Lunasa | The Irish band Lunasa talks about keeping the spirit of Irish traditional music alive in the 21st century. | 6/27/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Hooverphonic | We talk to Hooverphonic, the Belgian band that traffics in haunting dream-pop, grooving trip-hop and songs that sound like they stepped right out of a James Bond film circa 1967. | 6/20/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Karl Hyde | Karl Hyde is one-half of the popular dance-music group called Underworld. But he's launched a new conceptual CD called Edgeland that trades dance beats for introspective moods. Hyde and his collaborator, Leo Abrahams, talk about their electro-noir tales. | 6/13/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Seven Saturdays | Jonathan Haskell is a synthesis of influences. Recording as Seven Saturdays, you can hear elements Zero Seven, BT, MoodSwings, and early Pink Floyd roving through his music. On his new song-cycle, the former instrumental composer brings in guest singers for his expansive songs. | 6/6/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Pat Metheny plays John Zorn | Acclaimed guitarist Pat Metheny talks about playing the music of avant-garde iconoclast John Zorn. Metheny brings guitar fury to Zorn's compositions on the album, TAP: The Book of Angels volume 20. | 5/30/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Mike Oldfield - 40th Anniversary of Tubular Bells | It was forty years ago that Mike Oldfield electrified the world with his hit album, Tubular Bells. It had one composition spanning two sides of an LP, and featured Oldfield playing almost all the instruments. We look back at this iconic work that launched Mike Oldfield's career, Virgin Records, and hundreds of one-man-band recordings. | 5/23/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Olafur Arnalds | Albums using electronics, heavy metal singers and cinematic strings don't usually top the Classical music charts, but Olafur Arnalds' For Now I Am Winter managed to do that. We'll talk to the Icelandic composer about his haunting, melancholy music. | 5/16/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Wall | Wall is the recording persona of Lyla Foy. She's created a buzz with her early singles and new EP called Shoestring, bringing her fragile songs to life using antique digital synthesizers. | 5/9/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Hem | Hem is a Brooklyn-based band making a gentle dream-folk music that harbors songs of loss, turmoil and redemption. The group almost broke up making their latest album, Departure and Farewell, but it turned out to be a rebirth. | 5/2/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Rhian Sheehan | Rhian Sheehan creates melancholy electronic landscapes that often employ instruments from his children's toy box. We talk to him in his New Zealand studio about his beautiful new CD, Stories from Elsewhere. | 4/25/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Shaman's Dream | Shaman's Dream is a world fusion group tending towards the meditative side. It's headed by Craig Kohland, and on their latest album, Prana Pulse, electronica artist Bluetech joins the band. They talk about meditation and groove. | 4/18/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Seti the First | Kevin Murphy and Thomas Haugh are Irish musicians but their music isn't traditional. Inspired by The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, they make their own quirky ambient chamber music, using instruments from the Marxochime Colony. | 4/11/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Olafur Arnalds - Echoes CD of the Month: For Now I Am Winter | Icelandic composer Olafur Arnalds has released two albums in a row that truly seem to emerge from the heart of that country's winter darkness. If his 2010 album, And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness, was the sound of Iceland's sunless winter days, his latest release, For Now I Am Winter, turns the Nordic freeze into heroic rapture. Both sophisticated and edgy, Olafur Arnalds inhabits his own sonic universe, balancing emotions and mood on a laser's edge. For Now I Am Winter is the Echoes CD of the Month for April. | 4/4/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Banco de Gaia | After a seven year hiatus, the sultan of Ethno-Techno returns with a new CD of global groove mash-ups and melodic trans-global flights called Apollo. We explore his muses. | 3/28/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Tina Malia | Tina Malia is a self-professed hippie chick. She also possesses a remarkable voice honed in her singer-songwriter music, Kirtan chanting and collaborations with electronica artist Bass Nectar. She talks about the darker, electronic dimensions of her new CD, The Lost Frontier. | 3/21/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Ulrich Schnauss | German electronic musician Ulrich Schnauss talks about his latest CD, A Long Way to Fall, and what it's like to have an oft-imitated sound. | 3/14/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Ludovico Einaudi - In a Time Lapse | Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi mixes classism with minimalism and ambient moods on a CD of lush and melodically rich music that threads the line between pop and neo-classicism. His recording In a Time Lapse is the Echoes CD of the Month for March. | 3/7/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Joseph Byrd - The United States of America | As the founder of the rock bands United States of America and Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies, Joseph Byrd made some of the definitive acid rock of the 1960s. He also made some of the first electronic rock in the days before Moogs were prevalent. Joseph Byrd talks about his pre-rock academic music days, the psychedelic 60s, and beyond. | 2/28/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Pat Metheny - Orchestrion Project Live | In 2010 Pat Metheny toured with his massive mechanical orchestra, the Orchestrion. Upon the release of a live album, we go back into the belly of the Orchestrion beast with the acclaimed jazz guitarist. | 2/21/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Brian Reitzel | Soundtrack composer Brian Reitzell talks about his moody, atmospheric and sometimes avant-garde score for Boss, the Starz series starring Kelsey Grammar. It includes collaborations with Air and Shearwater. | 2/14/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Ulrich Schnauss - A Long Way To Fall | Ulrich Schnauss was one of the signpost electronic musicians of the 21st century's first decade. Now he's just released his first CD of the Twenty-Teens: a gorgeous work of melodic ambient spaces called A Long Way to Fall. | 2/7/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Philip Glass | With the death of one of his mentors, Ravi Shankar, last year, we take a look at the music of Philip Glass on his 76th birthday. We'll hear Glass, as well as Shankar, talking about the minimalist revolution. | 1/31/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Jon Durant and Colin Edwin | Colin Edwin is the bassist with English Progressive Rock band, Porcupine Tree. Jon Durant is a guitarist with ambient dimensions. They get together on a CD of darkly hued, atmospherically deep instrumentals. | 1/24/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - The Piano Guys | They've been lighting up YouTube with their inventive videos that reflect their eclectic mix of pop songs and classical music for piano and cello. We talk to this 5-headed multi-media ensemble about classical music in the digital age. | 1/17/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Hammock | The Nashville based ambient guitar duo has released an epic masterpiece called Departure Songs. We talk to them about their songs of loss and affirmation drenched in layers of reverbed guitar. | 1/10/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Just Music - Ambient Zone | The Ambient Zone – Just Music Cafe Volume 4. Why have one great ambient artist when you can have twelve. This brilliant collection from the English Just Music label includes new music from Marconi Union, Digitonal, Jon Hopkins, Leo Abrahams and others. | 1/3/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Essential Echoes 2012 | There are always three year end lists at Echoes. The first is John Diliberto's personal Top Ten which embraces all the music he listens to, not just what gets played on Echoes. Then comes the Best of Echoes 2012 listener poll, and finally, the 25 Essential Echoes CDs of 2012. These are the albums that the Echoes staff thought were the most significant releases of 2012 that were played on Echoes. We take a listen to some of the Essential Echoes for 2012. | 12/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Janel and Anthony | Janel Leppin and Anthony Pirog play intimate chamber pieces for cello, guitar and loops. Their fans include Nels Cline of Wilco. We talk to them about their intimate and personal ambient chamber music. | 12/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Kaki King | Idiosyncratic guitar phenomenon Kaki King returns to her acoustic guitar on her new CD, Glow. But this isn't just another finger-style sojourn. Kaki King takes acoustic guitar into new dimensions and talks about it on Echoes. | 12/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Manual | Danish musician Jonas Munk started as a guitarist but has merged that with synthesizers on a series of lush and lyrical ambient and electronica recordings. We talk to this musician about his own albums and collaborations with Ulrich Schnauss. | 12/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Bryan Carrigan | We look through Windows with Bryan Carrigan. He has put out three CDs in the last year. We’ll hear him talk about his latest, an ambient excursion called Windows. | 11/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Little People | Little People is Swiss-English synthesist Laurent Clerc and he makes an electronic sound full of earworm melodies and head turning electronics. He talks about his evolution from instrumental hip-hop to ecstatic space on his new CD, We Are But Hunks of Wood. | 11/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - John Cage - Beyond Silence | In the 100th Centenary year of John Cage's birth, we take a look at this iconoclastic composer with Dustin Hurt, director of the Cage: Beyond Silence festival in Philadelphia, and renowned Cage interpreter, Margaret Leng Tan. | 11/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Tycho | Scott Hansen is Tycho, an electro-ambient instrumental rock project. As Tycho, Hansen creates dreamy landscapes with an undertow of rock propulsion. We talk to him about ambient grooves in a rockin' world. | 11/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Azure Ray | Azure Ray is the duo of Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink, who have been making intoxicating dream pop for over a decade. Their music is deeply personal, including one of the saddest songs ever, "November." They talk about their new electronica direction on their CD, As Above So Below. | 10/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - SHEL | SHEL are four sisters from Colorado who are making an enchanting acoustic-based dream pop full of unforgettable hooks and romantic themes. They talk about their musical upbringing and personal travails behind their deceptively intimate music. | 10/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Samsara | Samsara is the first "trip" film of the new millennium, a follow-up to the movies Baraka and Chronos. We talk to the film's director and producer, Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson and composer Michael Stearns about this global journey into the cycle of life. | 10/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Julia Holter | Julia Holter is a singer-songwriter for the 21st century, recording her voice in vocal layers and spinning them through her mystically tinged songs. Her latest album is called Ekstasis, which is Greek for "outside of oneself." We go inside, with Julia Holter. | 10/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - BJ Cole | He's the best-known pedal steel guitarist in England, but he'd rather play ambient music than Country and Western. BJ Cole talks about being inspired by Brian Eno, playing on the Icebreaker cover of Eno's Apollo album, and his own new CD, Transparent Music 2. | 9/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Phil Keaggy and Jeff Johnson | Keyboardist Jeff Johnson and guitarist Phil Keaggy are renowned in their own musical worlds. They get together for their second collaboration of intuitively composed tone poems based on their impressions of the Frio River and beyond. | 9/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Hillary Hahn and Hauschka | What happens when a famed classical violinist collaborates with a musician who puts bottle caps, duct tape, vibrators and chopsticks into his piano? Find out, when we talk to Hilary Hahn and Hauschka about one of the most unlikely collaborations of the year. | 9/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Franco Falsini and Sensations Fix | Among progressive rock fans, the Italian group Sensations Fix is legendary. In the Ambient music world, the band's founder Franco Falsini was a pioneer. We talk to Falsini about the psychedelic roots and branches of Sensations Fix. | 9/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Icebreaker | Brian Eno's Apollo is a seminal and influential album in ambient music. The English new music ensemble called Icebreaker has taken this electronic work and rendered it as a stunning live performance. Icebreaker's James Poke and pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole talk about adapting this iconic album. | 8/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Alu | Alu is a siren of psychosis, writing songs of interior monologues and primal fears in a voice that is part Kate Bush and part cabaret. We talk about her new CD, Madhouse Masquerade. | 8/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Dead Can Dance | Dead Can Dance have returned with Anastasis, their first studio album in 16 years. The CD and world tour reunites this group that defined an ecstatic gothic sound. Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry talk to us from Quivvy Church in Ireland about touching the spirit. | 8/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Todd Boston | Todd Boston talks about studying with Ali Akbar Khan and recording his new world fusion album, Touched by the Sun, with Windham Hill founder Will Ackerman. | 8/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Blue Foundation | Growing up in Denmark, Tobias Wilner had a troubled childhood in which he lived on the streets and became a skater boy. He's turned that youth into sensual dream pop with his Brooklyn based band, Blue Foundation. Tobias Wilner talks with John Diliberto about the psychological bricks in his group, Blue Foundation. | 8/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Raygun Ballet | It's visions of the future, from the past, in the present, when Raygun Ballet, a.k.a. CGI wizard John-Mark Austin combines old TV and radio snippets with his own retro space-age electronics on his album, The World That Wasn't. | 7/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Geigertek | Geigertek is the recording persona of Neil Fellowes. His recent CD, Soundtrack for City Living is an album of atmospheres ranging from the romantic to the dystopic with a gorgeous cover of John Foxx's Underpass. We talk to him about a different kind of urban electronic sound. | 7/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Fall on Your Sword | Fall On Your Sword is a band from New York who mixes films, commercials and their own often quirky instrumental music together. They recently scored the movie Lola Versus. We talk to them about filmic music. | 7/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Dickon Hinchliffe | He was a member of the popular English rock group, Tindersticks, but after the band composed scores for films by Clare Denis, Hinchliffe caught the soundtrack bug and now composes scores for movies, such as Winter’s Bone and Rampart. | 7/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Broekhuis, Keller and Schoenwalder | One Dutch and two German electronic musicians get together to carry on the spirit of their heroes, electronic pioneers Vangelis and Klaus Schulze. They talk about their journey into retro-space music. | 6/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - NEARFest Apocalypse | We talk to NEARfest creators, Chad Hutchinson and Rob LaDuca who look back on 14 years and 13 editions of this Progressive ROck festival. | 6/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Marconi Union | This acclaimed English ambient duo has now become a trio and has a new album called Different Colors that returns to the melodic, soaring sound of their earlier albums. We talk to the trio about living in the digital world. | 6/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - George Sarah | George Sarah is an LA-based electronic composer who merges electronics and orchestral strings, along with some great singers, for an evocative set of themes that could be on any one of his film scores. He talks about life between the cracks. | 6/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Tino Izzo | Tino Izzo is a guitarist in the tradition of Mike Oldfield, layering multiple guitars in lush and lyrical compositions. His album, Morning Scapes, was an Echoes CD of the Month. He talks about a music odyssey that includes writing songs for Celine Dion. | 5/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Robin Guthrie, Harold Budd and Eraldo Bernocchi | Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd are icons of ambient music. Eraldo Bernocchi is an eclectic Italian musician with ambient desires. They got together on a CD called Winter Garden that is like improvisations in reverb. We talk to Guthrie and Bernocchi about their collaboration. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Joachim Cooder | Love on a Real Train is a project put together by percussionist and electronic musician Joachim Cooder, son of Ry Cooder. We talk to Joachim and his wife, singer Juliette Commagere, about a music that lives in the shadowed spaces between worlds. | 5/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Low Roar | Ryan Karaziya, better known as Low Roar, is making a heart-wrenching brand of ambient pop with folk-like melodies and ethereal moods. Low Roar sings softly, and speaks that way as well. | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Coyote Jump | Coyote Jump is an ensemble headed up by multi-instrumentalist Colin Farish and Native flute player John-Carlos Perea. They've created a fusion that follows in R. Carlos Nakai's footsteps, taking the Native flute into new dimensions. They talk about it on Echoes. | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Frankie Rose | Frankie Rose is a singer-songwriter who has released an album of evocative electronica pop called Interstellar. She used to play with a group called the Outs, but she's in, on Echoes. | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Thierry David | French synthesist Thierry David has been making expansive electronic spacescapes for years and founded his own label, K-Vox. His latest CD, Stellar Connection is the Echoes CD of the Month. | 4/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Loreena McKennitt | The Canadian harpist, singer and global music explorer Loreena McKennitt talks about her return to traditional Celtic music on the albums The Wind That Shakes the Barley and Troubadours on the Rhine. | 4/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Glenn Jones | Glenn Jones started out as an avant-psychedelic rocker with the group, Cul de Sac, before picking up an acoustic guitar and discovering American primitive icon, John Fahey. Glenn talks about his transition and his improvisational approach to music. | 4/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Eric Tingstad | The acoustic guitar half of the long-lived, Grammy-award winning duo Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel, plugs in for a follow-up to his album Southwest with another CD of twangy ambient Americana. It's called Badlands. He talks about his country sound. | 3/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Bill Frisell | Interview: Bill Frisell. Bill Frisell is a guitarist who redefines unique. He's carved out a style that brings together jazz and country, pop and the avant-garde into an instantly recognizable sound. His latest projects include his Beautiful Dreamers chamber jazz trio and an album of John Lennon covers. | 3/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Orbital | Interview: Orbital. Orbital is the long-lived English electronica duo who brought melody and humor to techno music. They've just put out their first new album in 8 years, Wonky. We get Wonky with the Hartnoll brothers who take us to Orbital's early daze and beyond. | 3/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Air 2012 | Interview: Air. The influential French duo creates a retro-psychedelic lounge soundtrack for the famous silent science-fiction film, Le Voyage Dans La Lune (A Trip to the Moon). Air's Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel talk about their space voyage. | 3/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Gary Numan part 2 | Interview: Gary Numan Part 2. We look at Gary Numan's latest album, Dead Son Rising, and how it links back to the dystopian themes of his ground-breaking 1978 recording, Replicas. | 3/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Gary Numan part 1 | Interview: Gary Numan Part I He was both an icon and source of parody for his 1970s synthi-pop hit singles like Cars. We go beneath the surface to hear a musician who created a sound that still resonates today. | 2/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Liftoff | With links to the eclectic downtempo strategies of the band Thievery Corporation, Liftoff brings the spirit and harmonies of 60s psychedelic pop into a downtempo electronic mode. We talk to all four members of the Washington, DC based band. | 2/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Bryan Carrigan | Bryan Carrigan has worked on dozens of films, TV shows and albums, but mostly as a behind-the-scenes engineer or producer. He also created the smoky soundscapes of Jeff Oster's CD called Surrender and has released two electronic albums of his own in the last year, both marked by catchy melodies and riveting grooves. | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Krusseldorf | Krusseldorf is a nom-de-plume used by Swedish electronic artist Simon Heath. He's created a beautifully melodic brand of downtempo electronica which seems to create kinetic sculptures before your eyes. We talk to him about it and his album, From Soil to Space. | 2/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Patrick O'Hearn | He's an icon of Echoes. His latest album, Transitions, was an Echoes CD of the Month, and listeners picked it as the Best Echoes CD of 2011. We talk to this veteran musician about his musical evolution and making an album entirely on lap steel guitars. | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Iarla O'Lionaird | He was the soulful Irish voice of Afro Celt Sound System, but now on his own, Iarla O'Lionaird has teamed up with Brian Eno collaborator, Leo Abrahams. They made an album of deep and atmospheric Celtic Aires called Foxlight. We talk to Iarla about tapping the Celtic soul. | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Darshan Ambient | Darshan Ambient's Dream in Blue was the Echoes CD of the Month in December. We talk to Michael Allison, the man behind this gorgeous electronic music, about his electronic homage to Miles Davis, and how he got from playing with Richard Hell and Nona Hendryx to here. | 1/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Mazmoneth | Nigel Mullaney and Ray Sherwin are guitarists and keyboardists deeply into space music, progressive rock and the occult. They started out recording music for relaxation but now create a sound that propels you into the unknown. We talk to them about their album, Music by Mirrors. | 1/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Jon Durant | Jon Durant is a veteran modern music composer with progressive rock roots. His latest album, Dance of the Shadow Planets, is an exploration of electric improvisation for guitar, violin and percussion. | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Throbbing Gristle | As Carter Tutti, Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti record delicate, introspective and personal music, in the 1970s and 80s they were one-half of the pioneering Industrial Rock band, Throbbing Gristle. The first five TG albums have just been re-released, so we talk to these artists who created some of the most confrontational music of the 1970s. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Jeff Oster. | The influence of Miles Davis is all over these days and none bear it more than Jeff Oster. He takes the electric sound of the jazz icon into the 21st century on a CD of ambient lounge music called Surrender. Jeff Oster talks to John Diliberto about his new CD and life-changes that shaped its mood. | 12/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Akara. | Akara is the duo of keyboardist Joshua Penman and singer Femke Weidema, and they say there is another dimension within ours. They sing lyrics written by beings in that dimension and create a global electronic soundscape around them. Back in this dimension, Akara talk about their mythological music. | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Russel Walder and Bruce Lipton. | Oboist Russel Walder, who came to renown as half of the Stein and Walder duo on Windham Hill records, now creates ambient chamber music, surrounding his instrument with electronic textures. His latest album, Music for a Shift in Consciousness, is inspired by author Bruce Lipton. We talk to both of them about manipulating musical DNA. | 11/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Azam Ali. | It's lullabies from the Middle East transformed by the voice of Iranian-born singer, Azam Ali. She updates these songs on a new CD called From Night To the Edge of Day. We talk to the singer, who has also been the voice of the Persian fusion groups Vas and Niyaz. | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Portico Quartet. | Their debut album, Knee-Deep in the North Sea, has just been reissued on Peter Gabriel's Real World label, so we go back to our interview with the Portico Quartet. They're an English jazz group who started out busking on London streets, drawing crowds with music centered on the melodic percussion of the Hang drum. | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Gentle Giant. | Gentle Giant wasn't the most popular progressive rock band of the 1970s, but it was one of the most respected. They were known for their complex compositions, madrigal singing, and conceptual albums that pushed the limits of rock. We'll hear their tale, including the story of Elton John almost becoming a member | 11/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Pallers. | Pallers is yet another atmospheric ambient band from Scandinavia, in this case, Sweden. We'll talk to the duo about their haunting debut CD, The Sea of Memories, which mixes ambient sound design and elusive vocals. | 10/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Lia Ices. | Lia Ices is an enchanting singer from Brooklyn who reveals the influences of Kate Bush and Enya in a music that is thoroughly her own. We talk to her about her album, Grown Unknown. The BBC said that "this is one many will be coming back to whenever stress levels flit into the red." | 10/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Mary Fahl - From the Dark Side of the Moon | She was the voice of October Project in the 1990s. Now she's brought that distinctive, full-throated voice to her own music. She just released a front-to-back cover of Pink Floyd's epic album, From the Dark Side of the Moon. We bring Mary Fahl into the light to talk about her passion for Pink Floyd and more. | 9/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Johanna and the Dusty Floor | Johanna is Johanna Cranitch, an Australian transplant with a vocal style influenced by Kate Bush and a sound honed in electronica. Her album Northern Lights is a song-cycle of haunted memories that includes a cover of Bush's tune Cloudbusting. | 9/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - AOMusic | AOMusic is a conceptual project inspired by thoughts of world peace. They've put together a global melange which includes the South African inspired vocalese of Miriam Stockley who came to fame as the voice of Adiemus. We talk to AOMusic about their ethno-techno sound. | 9/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Divine Matrix | A former dance music DJ plugs into his chilled and melodic side when we talk with Steve Barnes, better known as Divine Matrix. He talks about his music and the concept behind his ostentatious name. | 9/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Time for Three | The name Time for Three is a little awkward, but their music is anything but. This young string trio, playing violins and bass talk about their eclectic backgrounds and a music that goes from Arvo Part to Orange Blossom Special. | 9/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Balmorhea | Balmorhea is a quartet of musicians that should probably be playing rock and roll, and in their own fashion, they might be. Using acoustic guitars, piano, violin and cello, they orchestrate a haunting, pastoral sound tinged by country and born out of the landscapes of Texas. | 8/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Ryuichi Sakamoto | Ryuichi Sakamoto is the Academy Award winning, critically acclaimed, and willfully eclectic Japanese composer and pianist who has worked with David Bowie, David Byrne and many others. He also founded the pop group Yellow Magic Orchestra and has released a string of solo albums ranging in style from the romantic to the noisy. We talk about concepts of the noise of music with this innovative artist. | 8/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Karda Estra | Prompted by the release a couple of new recordings, we take a look back at our 2009 interview with Karda Estra, the recording persona of English composer Richard Wileman. He started out as a rocker but veered into composing classical works for chamber ensembles and electric guitar. His imagery tends to be gothic and his music dramatic. We'll talk to him about a sound that falls between progressive rock and classical cracks. | 8/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Atomic Skunk | Atomic Skunk's name may stink but the music is pure immersive exotic ambience. Musician Rich Brodsky's latest release is an intoxicating and melodic excursion through electronic modes, ambient moods and gamelan grooves. It's the Echoes CD of the Month for August, so we'll take a look back at an interview we did with Atomic Skunk. | 8/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Pat Metheny | Iconic guitarist Pat Metheny goes pop on a CD of 1960s cover tunes called What's It All About. The title comes from the lyrics to Alfie and that's one of the pop tunes Metheny covers, along with songs by Paul Simon, Carly Simon, and The Carpenters. Pat Metheny talks about his pop improvisations. | 7/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Winterlight | It's a name that's out of season for most of the year, but the music fits in all seasons. Winterlight is the recording persona of England's Tim Ingham who creates dreamy, shoegazer-influenced soundscapes topped by epic melodies. He talks about his album, Hope Dies Last, which was the Echoes CD of the Month in June. | 7/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Colin Vallon Trio | They actually want to be referred to as Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret and Samuel Rohrer. That's not very concise but it does speak to the collaborative nature of this piano trio, which explores intuitive improvisations and prepared piano. We talk about their latest ECM album, Rruga and the art of free improvisation. | 7/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Vic Hennegan | Vic Hennegan is something of an anomaly, a black electronic space musician. Growing up in Philly, instead of Michael Jackson, he dialed up the sounds of Tangerine Dream and now makes his own space music. He talks about his new - and best - CD, Field of Worlds and Mirrors. | 7/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Finnouala Sherry | Fionnuala Sherry is half of the Irish - Norwegian duo, Secret Garden. She steps out on her own with a surprisingly textural, deeply ambient album called Songs from Before. From her home in Dublin, the violinist talks about spinning traditional tunes through an ethereal landscape. | 6/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Moby: Electronic | The artist known as Moby has been a leading exponent of electronic music for the last two decades. We talk to him about the roots of his sound and his wall of vintage drum machines. | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Moby: Destroyed | The avatar of ambient soundscapes and dance hits continues on his road to becoming an atmospheric singer-songwriter on his new CD, Destroyed. Moby talks about his new, introspective album concerning themes of love, loss and death. But it's much more life-affirming than that. | 6/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Richard Anthony Jay | Orchestral electronica is another area of ambient chamber music, and English composer Richard Anthony Jay has tapped into a sound of symphonic majesty with a real orchestra, but touched by electronica's atmospherics. He talks about his music and latest CD, Imperfect Beauty. | 6/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Radio Massacre International - 2011 | Despite their name, they don't hate radio, though but they do make music you won't hear broadcast much, except on Echoes. We'll hear from this English trio who can evoke early Pink Floyd one moment and Tangerine Dream the next. | 6/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - The Forefathers | The Forefathers are a Florida band whose guitar-centric sound is based on the e-bow and delay techniques popularized by the Scottish group, Big Country. Their all-instrumental music also embraces Americana with open-sky harmonica melodies. We talk to this band about their latest CD, Aurora. | 5/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Sumner McKane | Always an exponent of Ambient Americana, guitarist Sumner McKane scores a soundtrack for a documentary called In the Blood, about Maine's logging industry in the early 20th century. He also produced the film. His score calls up folk themes and modern ambiences. | 5/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Azam Ali | It's lullabies from the Middle East transformed by the voice of Iranian-born singer, Azam Ali. She updates these songs on a new CD called From Night To the Edge of Day. We talk to the singer, who has also been the voice of the Persian fusion groups Vas and Niyaz. | 5/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Vicki Richards | Vicki Richards plays electric violin, and although she was inspired by the fusion music of the 1970s and 80s, her own sound is more introspective and drawn from personal experience. She talks about her new album, She Vanishes, the Echoes CD of the Month for April. | 5/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Agnes Obel | Agnes Obel's debut album was the Echoes CD of the Month in January. We sit down with the Danish singer-songwriter who talks about the often personal stories behind her haunting and entrancing ambient chamber music songs. | 4/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Skuli Sverrisson | In his New York City apartment, Laurie Anderson's music director, Skuli Sverrisson, pulls out his bass, toy piano and more, when he reveals the concepts behind his subtle and complex ambient chamber music. His CD Seria II echoes Italian film composers Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota and sends them into atmospheric terrain. | 4/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie | Harold Budd is the keyboardist who created the sound of ambient chamber music. As the guitarist of The Cocteau Twins, Robin Guthrie created dream guitar textures. The two musicians have just put out a new CD of atmospherically chilled music called Bordeaux. They talk about their music on Echoes. | 4/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Heligoland | Heligoland is the name of an island off the coast of Germany, and also the title of a Massive Attack album, but it's also a group from Australia via Paris that creates an ethereal dream pop. Their new album, All Your Ships are White, was produced by ex-Cocteau Twins guitarist Robin Guthrie. We talk to the band's founders, singer Karen Vogt and bassist Steve Wheeler, about Heligoland's journey geographically and musically. | 4/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Olafur Arnalds | Icelandic composer and keyboardist Olafur Arnalds sculpts an ambient chamber music landscape full of pensive moods and melodies that insinuate themselves in slow motion elegance. We talk with him about the chilled ambiences of his concept album, And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness. | 3/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - David Arkenstone | This composer and multi-instrumentalist built his reputation as the sultan of symphonic new age music, but on his new CD, Ambient World, he takes a more contemplative and textural approach. We talk with David Arkenstone about the Japanese influence on this album, which was our Echoes CD of the Month in February. | 3/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Richard Marvin | Interview: In Treatment composer Richard Marvin. There isn't a lot of music in HBO's psychological drama, In Treatment, but listen at the end of each show and you'll hear a composition that taps the mood of these provocative psychological examinations. We talk to Richard Marvin who composed and played these electronic studies of the mind. | 3/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Robert Miles | He came to renown in the mid 1990s with his dance-fueled electronic hit, Children, but since then, Italian artist Robert Miles has pursued a course of electronic fusion, mixing jazz grooves and rock guitar, and world music elements into his sound. He has a new album called Thirteen that's a study in post-electric Miles Davis ambient textures. | 3/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Royksopp | In Norway, musicians seem to spin dream pop and electronic ambiences straight out of the arctic air. We'll hear one of the leading exponents of electronica, Royksopp, when they talk about their music from their surprisingly ambient new CD, Senior. | 3/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Will Romano - Mountains Come Out of the Sky - The Illustrated History of Prog Rock | Will Romano, author of Mountains Come Out of the Sky - The Illustrated History of Prog Rock, was too young to experience the heyday of progressive rock, but he's gone back to explore the sounds of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Yes, and more in this heavily researched book full of key interviews. We talk with Will Romano about the rise of prog. | 2/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Johan Agebjorn | In Sweden, Johan Agebjorn creates music of paradoxes. He's a fan of disco and has a hit group called Sally Shapiro. But he also makes deep ambient music. It's high-tech, but informed by Gregorian chants and recordings of trains his mother made. Join Echoes when Johan Agebjorn talks about his nordic electronica. | 2/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - William Tyler | Fusing his Nashville background with influences ranging from finger-style iconoclast John Fahey to ambient pioneer Brian Eno, William Tyler picks out Americana songs tinged with deep atmosphere on his CD Behold the Spirit. | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Cluster | Cluster influenced a generation of musicians from Brian Eno to Johnny Rotten. The catalog of these German electronic legends is currently being reissued. Cluster founders Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius talk about their quirky, often home-brewed electronic sound from the 1970s and 80s. | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Dave Eggar and Deoro | Cellist and pianist Dave Eggar is a complicated musician who does session work for practically everyone, and has released albums from new age piano to sublime chamber works. His latest album finds him exploring Reggae music. Dave Eggar talks about music from Messiaen to Marley. | 1/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Near the Parenthesis | Near The Parenthesis is the performance name of Tim Arndt. He's a musician who mixes melodic piano lines with glitchy electronics and moody atmospheres. We go between the parentheses to find out the points and asides of his music. | 1/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Mark Preston | Mark Preston was a rock drummer until he plugged in and found a deeper, personal space in electronic music. We talk with him about making his first album in high school and his latest CD, Nature and Design, an Echoes CD of the Month last November. | 1/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Nils Petter Molvaer | Nils Petter Molvaer is a 21st century trumpeter from Norway who employs electronic rhythms, free improvisation and elaborate processing on his trumpet for a breathy, introspective sound. He talks about his music and latest album, Hamada. | 1/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature -Boxharp | A boxharp is a zither instrument associated with Appalachian music and it's also the name of a quirky duo. Scott Solter and Wendy Allen create swampy, moody renditions of folk songs they've heard from people like Burl Ives. It's not your grandfather's Old Smokey. | 12/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Anil Prasad's Innerviews | On his website, Innerviews.org, Anil Prasad conducts introspective interviews with leading figures in music. Now he's written a book called Innerviews - Music Without Borders, with new and expanded interviews with artists like Bjork, Chuck D, Tangerine Dream and John McLaughlin. We interview Anil Prasad about Innerviews - Music Without Borders. | 12/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Jeff Johnson and Brian Dunning | Jeff Johnson and Brian Dunning are veterans of Celtic crossover playing keyboards and flute. On a new CD of seasonal music called Under the Wonder Sky, they re-imagine Christmas. Joined by violinist Wendy Goodwin, the trio talks about the meaning of Christmas and Under the Wonder Sky. | 12/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Brian Eno - An Icon of Echoes | As Echoes celebrated its 20th anniversary, listeners voted for the 20 Icons of Echoes. Topping the poll by a wide margin was Brian Eno. Hear why this musician, Producer, philosopher and provocateur is considered so influential. | 12/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - David Lanz | Like many of us, David Lanz grew up on The Beatles and now he's paid homage to the fab four with a CD of impressionistic Beatles covers called Liverpool: Re-imagining the Beatles. With Gary Stroutsos playing Chinese Xiao flute, they turn Beatles songs into expansive chamber works. They tell us about their sojourn to Liverpool. | 11/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - The American Dollar | The American Dollar is a band, not a currency. In a bedroom in Queens, NY, John Emanuele and Rich Cupolo sculpt electronic and guitar dreamscapes that range from ambient to epic. Their music has turned up in ads and TV shows like CSI. We talk to The American Dollar about their music. | 11/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Ryuichi Sakamoto | Ryuichi Sakamoto is the Academy Award winning, critically acclaimed, and willfully eclectic Japanese composer and pianist who has worked with David Bowie, David Byrne and many others. He also founded the pop group Yellow Magic Orchestra and has released a string of solo albums ranging in style from the romantic to the noisy. We talk about concepts of the noise of music with this innovative artist. | 11/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature -Boxharp | A boxharp is a zither instrument associated with Appalachian music and it's also the name of a quirky duo. Scott Solter and Wendy Allen create swampy, moody renditions of folk songs they've heard from people like Burl Ives. It's not your grandfather's Old Smokey. | 11/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Anil Prasad | On his website, Innerviews.org, Anil Prasad conducts introspective interviews with leading figures in music. Now he's written a book called Innerviews - Music Without Borders with new and expanded interviews with artists like Bjork, Chuck D, Tangerine Dream and John McLaughlin. We interview Anil Prasad about Innerviews - Music Without Borders. | 10/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Moogfest 2010 | Moogfest 2010 is one of the biggest electronic music festivals of the year. With acts like Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, and Jonsi from Sigur Ros, it's less about Robert Moog and more about his legacy in an electronic world. We talk to the creators of Moogfest and Michelle Moog-Koussa, Moog's daughter and executive director of the Bob Moog Foundation. | 10/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Nils Petter Molvaer | Nils Petter Molvaer is a 21st century trumpeter from Norway who employs electronic rhythms, free improvisation and elaborate processing on his trumpet for a breathy, introspective sound. He talks about his music and latest album, Hamada. | 10/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Portico Quartet | You can't turn around these days without hearing the ringing metallic sounds of a Hang drum, but the English group called Portico Quartet takes this exotic instrument into a world of modal jazz improvisations. We'll talk with this chamber jazz ensemble. | 9/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Michael Rother | No one heard of them 40 years ago, but the 1970s German bands Neu and Harmonia are now cited in every other review of hip alt-rock bands. We talk to a founder of those groups, guitarist Michael Rother, who is still creating brilliant music on his own, and who recently toured the U.S. | 9/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Harold Budd - An Icon of Echoes | Producer Daniel Lanois says that Harold Budd plays like feathers on the piano. For over four decades, this composer has been charting a subtle course of ambient chamber music. We'll look back on his music, drawing from 30 years of interviews in an ambient portrait of our 20th Icon of Echoes. | 9/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Goldmund | He plays piano like it's barely there, makes ambient music that whispers and has an electronica duo that seduces. His name is Keith Kenniff, but he records as Goldmund, Helios and Mint Julep. He talks about his fragile music and the new Goldmund album, Famous Places. | 9/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature -Tierra Negra and Muriel Anderson | Tierra Negra is a Flamenco guitar duo from Germany. They team up with American harp guitarist Muriel Anderson to play an intricate brand of world string music on their CD, New World Flamenco. We gather the trio to talk about guitar music from Andalusia to Nashville. | 9/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - On Fillmore | On Fillmore is a duo of audio landscapers. Glenn Kotche, the drummer from Wilco, and bassist Darin Gray use tuned percussion, acoustic bass, and assorted odds and ends to create soundscapes that are sometimes enveloping and sometimes discordant. | 8/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Lisa Gerrard - An Icon of Echoes | The voice of Dead Can Dance and numerous film scores like Gladiator, Lisa Gerrard channels spirits in a supralingua dialect of the imagination. Through 25 years of interviews, we look back on the music of this iconic, and iconoclastic artist. | 8/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Bruce Kaphan | Bruce Kaphan put the ambient in ambient Americana with his album Slider. Ten years later he returns with a new CD of pedal steel guitar melodies called Hybrid. | 8/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Dave Eggar | Cellist and pianist Dave Eggar is a complicated musician who does session work for practically everyone, and has released albums from new age piano to sublime chamber works. His latest album finds him exploring Reggae music. Dave Eggar talks about music from Messiaen to Marley. | 7/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Steve Hackett | When you mention guitar gods, Steve Hackett should be right in the thick of it. Coming to renown with the progressive rock group Genesis, Hackett's solo career is marked by expansive, dramatic compositions and solos that make him the Sultan of Sustain. At a triumphal performance at NEARfest 2010, we talk with Hackett about his music past and present. | 7/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Laurie Anderson | We go into Laurie Anderson's Manhattan studio where the iconoclastic artist talks about her latest work, Homeland, a meditation on life's passage and politics. Critics are calling it her best work since Big Science. | 7/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Dave Bainbridge | Guitarist Dave Bainbridge is best known for his work as founder of the Celtic progressive rock group, Iona. On his own and with Uilleann piper Troy Donockley, he sculpts meditative improvisations in cathedrals and expansively orchestrated studio works. We talk to him about a sound born in faith. | 7/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Afrocelt Sound System - Icons of Echoes | Afro Celt Sound System has contributed some of the defining sounds of Echoes with their mixture of African, Eastern, and Irish music, coupled with electronic grooves and moods. We look back at the energy-charged world fusion of this band. Echoes listeners voted them number 15 of 20 Icons of Echoes. | 7/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Bluetech | Acclaimed downtempo electronic composer Bluetech gets his dub thing going on a new CD called Love Songs To the Source. Bluetech talks about his new electro-Jamaican Jams. | 6/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Robert Rich - An Icon of Echoes | We look back on the career of electronic composer Robert Rich, whose techno-tribal music and ambient dreamscapes reflect the state of the art in organic electronic music. Echoes lisyeners voted him number 14 of 20 Icons of Echoes. | 6/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Hungry Lucy | We hear ghost stories from Hungry Lucy. They're an electronica duo from Ohio who take their name from a horror tale and take their music from the interior dreams of singer Christa Belle and electronic artist Warren Harrison. | 6/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Spyra | Wolfram Spyra is a German electronic artist who falls between the early space music of Klaus Schulze and the modern dance music of techno. He started as an avant-garde sound installation artist before turning to space music and techno. We hear the story of a 3rd generation space musician with Spyra. | 6/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Kaki King | She started out as a two-handed tapping, acoustic finger-style phenomenon, but over the last decade, Kaki King has remolded herself as a punky singer-songwriter wailing on electric guitar. We talk about her evolution and new CD, Junior. | 5/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Michael Hedges - An Icon of Echoes | Michael Hedges died in 1997, but he remains the most revolutionary acoustic guitarist of the last 30 years. His records on Windham Hill remain as standards of captivating composition married to two-handed tapping and other innovative techniques. Michael appeared on Echoes several times. We look back on his words and music. | 5/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu | Jazz guitarist Ralph Towner from the group Oregon and Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu talk about their unique and intimate meeting born in intuitive interplay and improvisation on their ECM album, Chiaroscuro. | 5/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Sounds From The Ground | Veteran English electronic duo Sounds from the Ground has just released new music, reissues and lost tracks. We revisit our interview with a band who create a sampledelic mix of chilled sounds. | 5/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Vangelis - An Icon of Echoes | The Greek synthesist Vangelis has been recording for over four decades, creating symphonic electronic orchestrations and dark ambient expanses. His work includes the films Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner and epic albums like Albedo 0.39 and Oceanic. As number 11 of 20 Icons of Echoes, we hear the Greek electronic giant talk about his career. | 4/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Time for Three | Interview - Time for Three. Their name is a little awkward, but their music is anything but, as this young string trio, playing violins and bass talk about their eclectic backgrounds and a music that goes from Arvo Part to Orange Blossom Special. | 4/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Scott August | Scott August built his reputation as a player of Native American flutes, but on his new CD, he takes his flutes into space with a sound that reveals the influence of 70s space music. His CD is called Radiant Sky and Scott August illuminates it on Echoes. | 4/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Moby - An Icon of Echoes | It's one of 20 Icons of Echoes when we profile Moby. He looks back on his career from his techno-rave daze to his album Play and his latest, Wait for Me. For our 20th Anniversary, listeners voted Moby the 9th of 20 Icons of Echoes. | 4/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - All India Radio | It's a transmission from All India Radio. They're not from India, though. They're a band from Australia that makes global ambient music full of Americana touches and inviting atmospheres. We talk long distance to All India Radio operator Martin Kennedy. | 4/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature -International Guitar Night 2010 | Four virtuoso guitarists from Germany, Israel and America talk about a convergence of finger-style guitar approaches. We speak with Brian Gore, Stephen Bennett, Lulo Reinhardt and Itamar Erez of International Guitar Night 2010. | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Loreena McKennitt - An Icon of Echoes | We survey the music of Canadian singer-songwriter Loreena McKennitt, a musician who has moved from folky Celtic harp music to global extravaganzas. | 3/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Arc - Mark Shrieve and Ian Boddy - in the Echoes Chamber | Mark Shreeve and Ian Boddy step into the Echoes Chamber. These two British synthesists, members of Arc, hear electronic sounds from the past and present. While they try to guess the artists, they also place them in the orbit of their own music in a conversation with John Diliberto. | 3/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Kevin Keller | Ambient chamber music composer Kevin Keller's In Absentia is a study in finely calibrated emotions dealing with the disappearance and likely death of his father-in-law. Keller talks about crafting this chamber music in his New York bedroom studio. | 3/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton and Will Clipman | It's a study in intuitive improvisation and southwestern soundscaping when R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton and Will Clipman talk about their new CD, Dancing into Silence. Its serene performances are born from three musicians completely in tune. | 2/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Tangerine Dream - An Icon of Echoes | Bands are still borrowing from the sounds created by Tangerine Dream in the 1970s. We look back on over 40 years of space music from this German electronic band, which Echoes listeners voted one of 20 Icons of Echoes. | 2/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - William Ackerman - An Icon of Echoes | All he did was found Windham Hill Records and jump-start the finger-style guitar renaissance. We look back at the career of guitarist Will Ackerman, one of 20 Icons of Echoes. | 2/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Kori Linae Carothers | Pianist Kori Linae Carothers talks about her intimate chamber music, her recent CD Trillium, and playing with guitarist Will Ackerman and flugelhornist Jeff Oster. | 2/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Pat Metheny's Orchestrion | Acclaimed jazz guitarist Pat Metheny plugs to the Orchestrion, a massive instrument based on the old player piano orchestrations of yore. | 1/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Michael Spriggs | Nashville guitarist Michael Spriggs talks about his evolution from country picking to ambient Americana with his album Neurasenia, our Echoes CD of the Month from December. | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Kronos Quartet | In the world of string quartets there is before and after Kronos, the ensemble that revolutionized the form, playing new music from Steve Reich to Sigur Ros. We talk with founder David Harrington about Kronos past and present. | 1/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Jon Hopkins | He's a collaborator with Brian Eno, played with Imogen Heap and is all over the last Coldplay album. On his own, Jon Hopkins makes a lyrical, glitch-strewn music based in acoustic piano. We talk with him about battered uprights and Kaos Pads. | 1/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - 20 Icons for 20 Years of Echoes - Patrick O'Hearn | We continue our journey through 20 Echoes Icons with Patrick O'Hearn, a composer, keyboardist and bassist who has been making organically beautiful instrumental music since his 1985 debut, Ancient Dreams. | 12/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze | An African griot meets a German jazz trumpeter when Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze talk about their unlikely and serenely beautiful collaboration. | 12/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes feature - New Americana | Americana is a genre that usually refers to rustic music with roots in heartland sounds from folk, blues and country. In 2009, Americana emerged in some unusual locations on Echoes, including jazz, the avant-garde and electronica. John Diliberto's top three albums for 2009 are all dipping into a new stream of 21st century Americana. | 12/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Robin Guthrie | His followers are legion. His layered, delayed and reverbed guitar sound instantly recognizable. Robin Guthrie talks about music after the Cocteau Twins, his influential 80s band and his new album, Carousel. | 12/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Anna Schaad | Anna Schaad is a musician steeped in fantasy and besotted by her Navy pilot husband. They both inform her dramatic and evocative music on the album, Dream Within A Dream. Anna Schaad talks about her inspirations. | 12/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - 20 Icons for 20 years of Echoes - Steve Roach | Listeners voted Steve Roach as number two of 20 Icons for 20 Years of Echoes. We'll look back at one of the most influential electronic artists of the last 30 years. From his CDs Structures from Silence to Dreamtime Return and Destination Beyond, Roach's music has been a touchstone of modern ambient and techno-tribal music. | 11/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Gong | It's been 40 years since Daevid Allen convened his space gypsy rock band Gong which influenced everyone from Ozric Tentacles to Steve Roach. Allen and guitarist Steve Hillage talk about the daze of Gong. | 11/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Baaba Maal | Senegalese singer Baaba Maal talks about the evolution of the African Griot and his own ethereal new CD, Television, recorded with The Brazilian Girls. | 11/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Donna DeLory | Singer Donna DeLory talks about life in a post-Madonna world as the former back-up singer continues on her path of spiritual pop and mantra chants. | 11/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Urban Nature | Urban Nature is the duo of guitarist Todd Boston and percussionist Ramesh Kannan. They're updating the East-West fusion of John McLaughlin's Shakti, adding looping electronics to their already diverse sound. We talk to these two musicians about their album, Coming Home. | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - 20 Icons for 20 Years of Echoes - Brian Eno | Echoes is featuring 20 Icons of Echoes, to celebrate 20 years of Echoes. When we asked the listeners to vote, Brian Eno easily topped the listener poll. Hear why when we profile the iconoclastic and influential musician. | 10/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Phil Keaggy and Jeff Johnson - Frio Suite | Keyboardist Jeff Johnson and legendary guitarist Phil Keaggy collaborate on a tone poem to the Frio river. It mixes multiple guitars and keyboard textures into one of the most perfect albums of the year. It's the Echoes CD of the Month for October. | 10/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Carmen Rizzo and Huun Huur Tuu | Huun Huur Tu is a band from Tuva specializing in the ancient style of harmonic singing that comes from that region. Their music is combined with the electronics and arrangements of Carmen Rizzo, known for his work with Niyaz, Inbar Bakal and his own electronica recordings. It's a meeting of cultures when they come together. | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Chris Bocast | Chris Bocast is a journeyman guitarist who plays ambient guitar. When he was living in Colorado, he teamed up with MJ Catalin, a Romanian drummer and electronic musician. The two have never met, but they create a virtual ensemble ambient sound on their album, Stratagem, which was our Echoes CD of the Month for August. Chris Bocast talks about his internet music collaboration | 10/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Rena Jones 2009 | There are a lot of looping, electric cellists out there, but Rena Jones is one of the few who is also orchestrating her own electronica backings, creating patterns of rhythms, glitches and ambient moods. Her previous album, Driftwood, was an Echoes favorite and her latest, Indra's Web, follows suit. We get tangled up with Rena Jones. | 9/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Banco de Gaia 2009 | It was 20 years ago that Toby Marks and Andy Guthrie formed Banco De Gaia, an ambient oscillation that has fused techno and ethnic music, psychedelic moods and ambient designs. Only Toby Marks remains and he's just released a double CD called Memories, Dreams, Reflections that features cover versions of songs that influenced him by Pink Floyd and King Crimson, classic Banco tracks revisited, and live performances. Toby Marks looks back at 20 years of edgy bliss. | 9/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Harold Budd and Clive Wright | Harold Budd had never heard of Cock Robin or their guitarist, Clive Wright. And Clive Wright had never heard of pianist Harold Budd. But when Budd moved out into the desert spaces of Joshua Tree, California, where the English-born Wright had lived for years, they got together for a pair of albums that match Budd's spacious melodic sensibilities and Wright's deep reverb ambiences. We hear about their desert reveries. | 9/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Ben Neill | Ben Neill is the sole player of an instrument called the Mutantrumpet. It has three different bells, two sets of valves, a mini-trombone slide and electronics. Neill deploys this contraption in electronica forays full of morphing rhythms and melodies that shift through timbral voices as if they were injected into a kaleidoscope. Ben Neill has been playing the mutantrumpet for about two decades and he talks about his latest moves in an album called Night Science. | 9/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Karda Estra | Karda Estra is the recording persona of English composer Richard Wileman. He started out as a rocker but veered into composing classical works for chamber ensembles and electric guitar. His imagery tends to be gothic and his music dramatic. We'll talk to him about a sound that falls between progressive rock and classical cracks. | 8/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Bear McCreary - Battlestar Galactica | Battlestar Galactica was one of the most sophisticated science fiction shows on television and Bear McCreary composed a soundtrack to match. It's a score based on acoustic instruments, and very traditional ones at that. The fourth season soundtrack has just been released on CD. | 8/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Inbar Bakal | Inbar Bakal is an Israeli singer born of Yemeni and Iraqi parents. Her music, composed with producer and Niyaz member Carmen Rizzo, is a fusion of global grooves and electronic moods, all topped by her sensual voice. Inbar and Carmen talk about their collaboration. | 8/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - John Luther Adams | It was John Cage who suggested that music was always in the air, and John Luther Adams has been tapping that sound for over 30 years. His evocative, atmospheric and sometimes stormy compositions evoke his longtime home in Fairbanks, Alaska. We talk with the noted composer about his life and his permanent ambient installation, The Place Where You Go To Listen, where music is triggered by seismic, magnetic and cosmological events. | 8/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Loner | Loner is the recording persona of Geoff Smith, an English singer-songwriter with a penchant for introspective moods, haiku-like lyrics, and songs that linger in your mind like a lost lover. In his London flat, he's composed two CDs filled with melancholy moods. His latest is called Western Sci Fi. Geoff Smith talks about the solitude of Loner. | 7/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Bill Frisell | Bill Frisell is not only one of the best guitarists of our age, but one of the most conceptual. Since his 1983 debut on ECM, he's charted a singular course, mixing country ambience and electronic distortion, weaving together music from Aaron Copland to Madonna, plus his own originals. He's a guitarist's guitarist, a musician's musician and he talks with us about his music, on Echoes. | 7/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Rhian Sheehan | Rhian Sheehan is a composer from New Zealand who gets to a place of exultant stillness on his CD, Standing in Silence. It's an album born from isolation and innocence. He rummages through his daughter's toy box, emerging with xylophones and music boxes that he electronically deconstructs and weaves into arrangements for electronics and ambient guitar, making the music itself sound like a lost artifact plucked from the dust and silence of another culture. From New Zealand, we talk with Rhian Sheehan. | 7/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Moby - part 2 | Moby has made his most personal album yet. It's called Wait for Me and it's a CD of deep textures, soulful ruminations and unexpected turns. Moby says - It's really designed for one listener. It's not designed for a party, it's not designed for 20 people in a bar or night club to listen to. It's for someone lying in bed Sunday morning 9 o'clock when it's raining outside. We go inside Wait for Me when we talk with Moby. | 7/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Moby - part 1 | In the first of two interviews we talk with Moby about his career that has taken him from the disco dance floors of New York City to an avatar of electronic music that has found favor in the pop charts, on films and in commercials. Moby takes us from his days as the man behind many pseudonyms to his latest album, Wait for Me. | 7/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Matthew Schoening | Matthew Schoening is in the second generation of looping cellists. He plays an instrument that looks like an electric stick, but it sounds like a string orchestra when he layers it in real time performance. Schoening talks about his journey from lapsed cellist to sound technician and back into the new world of music making. | 6/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Mellodrama | The Mellotron was the sound of progressive rock and space music in the 1970s. Before digital synthesizers, it was an instrument that played back the sounds of orchestras, choirs, and more. It generated the grandeur of The Moody Blues, Tangerine Dream, King Crimson and many others. In her new documentary Mellodrama, director Dianna Dilworth has chronicled the birth of the Mellotron, going back to the late 1940s and the Chamberlin keyboard. We talk to her about these instruments and their epic journey. | 6/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Mono | Mono doesn't take its name from the audio configuration. This band is in full, glorious stereo, but they have a singular focus on making an orchestral rock guitar music that owes as much to Explosions in the Sky as Arvo Part. We talk with Mono founder, guitarist Takaakira Goto, about his dynamic music heard on the CD, Hymn to the Immortal Wind. | 6/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Ray Montford | Ray Montford is one of those chameleon guitarists who can play just about anything, but on his latest album, A Fragile Balance, he creates and ambient Americana that's like a meeting of Pink Floyd and Ry Cooder. We talk to this gifted musician about his long career in the music trenches and music that touches the sky. | 6/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Leo Abrahams | Leo Abrahams is a guitarist who can pluck a plaintive acoustic guitar melody and turn around to mutate his guitar into an ambient abstraction. A sideman with Brian Eno, this ambient accomplice heads for the pastoral side on his CD, The Grape and the Grain. With elements of Americana and English folk music, he creates a lyric recording that's like a soundtrack for the harvest. Leo Abrahams talks about his music on Echoes. | 5/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Mark Dwane | Mark Dwane has been a fixture on Echoes since his debut album, The Monuments of Mars. The signposts of Mark's music are expansive, cinematic melodies, propulsive grooves and chordal sweeps that send you careening into space. His albums often have mythic and sci-fi themes, including his latest album, Other Worlds. Although he has been played on Echoes from the beginning and had CDs of the Month selections, this is Mark's first Echoes interview. | 5/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Wendy and Lisa | Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman came to renown in Prince's 1980s band, The Revolution, helping him compose the music on albums like Purple Rain. But the duo has been on their own for more than 20 years and can now be heard on the soundtracks for TV shows like Crossing Jordan, Nurse Jackie, and Heroes. Wendy and Lisa talk about the music of Heroes and their new album, White Flags of Winter Chimneys. | 5/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Morgan Doctor | Morgan Doctor is a world music percussionist who's as likely to play Indian tabla drums in a Kirtan session with Durga Das as mount the stage with The Cliks, a Canadian power-punk band. On her second solo album, Other Life, she creates imagery-laden journeys colored with Indian instruments and ambient designs. We talk with Morgan Doctor about her Other Life on Echoes. | 5/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Antoine Dufour | Canadian guitarist Antoine DuFour is a fingerstyle guitarist with a wide dynamic range who deploys his formidable guitar techniques across several albums including his latest, Existence. He started acoustic guitar playing while listening to his father's progressive rock albums. Dufour gives us a master class in the techniques of modern fingerstyle guitar | 4/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Mandrake Project | The Mandrake Project is a collective of musicians that is making progressive rock for the modern world. On their latest album, A Miraculous Container, they merge elements of world music, electronica, virtuoso playing and compositions that sometimes echo Arvo Part meeting Radiohead. The Mandrake Project includes veterans of the Pittsburgh music scene and a violinist from the Polyphonic Spree. They reveal the secrets of the Mandrake Project. | 4/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - The Beyman Brothers | Christopher Guest is best known for film parodies like A Mighty Wind, Best of Show and most notably, This is Spinal Tap where he plays Nigel Tufnel in the wasted heavy metal band of the title. You might think The Beyman Brothers were a parody as well, but Guest, who is a serious musician, has teamed up with childhood friend David Nichtern of Drala and "Midnight at the Oasis" fame and longtime music collaborator CJ Vanston to create an album of evocative world chamber folk music called Memories of Summer As a Child. The Beyman Brothers give us a real interview. | 4/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Morgan Doctor - Echo Location | Morgan Doctor is one of those musicians who finds herself between worlds. The music on her new solo album, Other Life, is marked by imagery laden instrumental journeys colored with Indian instruments and ambient designs. She's a world music percussionist who's just as likely to play Indian tabla drums in a Kirtan session with Durga Das as mount the stage with the rock band The Cliks. Her album is Other Life, and she creates other music, falling well between the cracks. | 4/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - David Darling | There aren't too many instrumental albums that will cite political journalist Amy Goodman in the acknowledgments. David Darling has created a post-Bush meditation of chamber cello orchestrations called Prayer for Compassion. We go to the lair of the lord of largo who takes us into the deep and layered world of his music. | 4/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Steve Roach and Erik Wollo | Steve Roach and Erik Wollo are contemporaries from opposite sides of the world and opposite ends of the thermometer. But after three decades of mutual admiration, they got together to collaborate on an expansive CD that took both musicians out of their comfort zones and into new terrain. We connect these artists over transcontinental space to hear their Stream of Thought. | 3/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Roger O'Donnell | Roger O'Donnell spent the better part of his career as keyboardist with moody rockers The Cure during their heyday in the 1980s and 90s. But now that he's out on his own, he's traded rock stardom for retro-electronic music played almost exclusively on the Moog Voyager synthesizer. O'Donnell talks about his personal electronic music on his latest CD, Songs from the Silver Box. | 3/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Erik Scott | He's played with Alice Cooper, Flo and Eddie and was a charter member of Sonia Dada. But when he sat in his home north of Chicago all by himself, bassist Erik Scott came up with an introspective, all-instrumental album that showed what the electric bass can do in the service of evocative compositions. His album is called Other Planets. | 3/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Bill Bruford | Bill Bruford is the drummer's drummer. He came to renown with progressive rockers Yes, changed perceptions of percussion with several stints in King Crimson and then turned away from rock with his own brainy jazz group, Earthworks. Now he's announced his retirement and dropped a biting tome, "Bill Bruford: The Autobiography" that talks about life on the road and the changing shape of music. | 3/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Jon Hassell | Jon Hassell's latest album is called "Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street," a title taken from a 13th century poem by Rumi. Mixing laptops, layered compositions, and live sound processing, it often sounds like Miles Davis meeting Arvo Part, tuning in signals from space. We talk with Jon Hassell about Fourth World music in the 21st Century. | 2/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Rokia Traore | From Mali comes Rokia Traore, a singer-songwriter whose lyrics are in her native Bamama tongue but whose songs speak a universal language through her sensual, smokey voice. We talk with her about her new album, Tchamantche that moves through deep meditations and joyous hymns. | 2/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Stomu Yamash'ta | One of the often overlooked figures of progressive rock is Japanese composer Stomu Yamash'ta. In the 1970s, Yamash'ta played with Stevie Winwood, Al Di Meola and Klaus Schulze. Many of his seminal albums have just been reissued. We travel back to Taidokoju Temple for a meditation with Stomu Yamash'ta. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Make your own Ambient Music | We explore a couple of new programs for the computer and iPod that let you make your own ambient dreamscapes. One is the Buddha Machine and the other is Brian Eno's Bloom. | 2/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Kaya Project | Seb Taylor is a musician of many guises, recording under the names Hibernation, Shakta, and Digitalis. But his most fertile persona has been as Kaya Project with his partner, Natasha Chamberlain. Their third full-length album, And So It Goes, expands on the merger of ethno-electronica with world music exotica. Taylor talks about mixing global musicians with his own electronics and slide guitar in a world music of the imagination. | 1/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Johann Johannsson | Johann Johannsson's CD Fordlandia was one of the most haunting albums of 2008 with its deep ambient chamber music designs. From his home in Reykjavik, Johannsson talks about music that explores the philosophical ramifications of IBM computers from the 1960s and the failed totalitarian utopia of Fordlandia. | 1/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Johann Agebjorn | Johan Agebjorn is a musician who lives in two worlds connected by electronic wires. With a project called Sally Shapiro, he makes smooth electronic dance music. Under his own name, he explores ambient sounds, environmental spaces and gothic tinged melodies. Agebjorn talks about his snow shrouded sound. | 1/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - John Gregorius | John Gregorius is a finger-style guitarist who places his instrument in ambient soundscapes on his album, Heaven and Earth, our December CD of the Month. He has played rock and roll, but he merges Windham Hill-style acoustics with Steve Tibbetts-style landscaping. John Gregorius talks about his guitar journey, which includes the Christian imagery that suffuses his music. | 1/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Saul Stokes | In another time, say the 1950s or 60s, Saul Stokes might have been considered an experimental composer, constructing his own instruments, creating random events, bypassing conventional musical form. But rarely has an experimental composer made music as haunting and soulful as that heard on his new CD, Villa Galaxia. | 1/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Celtic Christmas Music | Celtic music and Christmas go together as well as The Messiah by Handel and Christmas. If you want to tap into that contemplative, fireplace, snowflakes and Christmas tree mood, there is nothing like a good Celtic aire to get you there. John Diliberto looks at new releases from Enya, Loreena McKennitt and Aine Minogue. | 12/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Sundad | John Eurell Senior was a rock and roll guitarist who hung up his axe to get on with life when he started playing acoustic guitar with his son, John Junior. For the last several years, they've been playing as Sundad mixing twin acoustic guitars in the spirit of fusion artists like John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola. John Jr. and Sr. talk about coming together on music while at different points in their lives. | 12/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Dean De Benedictis | A lot of instrumental players decide they want to be singers, but usually, that means they start writing songs with words. Dean De Benedictis, who has recorded several electronic albums under his own name and as Surface 10, has gone another way. He's using his voice to make electronic music. On his album, A Cambient Variations, all the sounds come from his voice, but he layers, loops and processes that voice into an ambient dreamscape. Dean De Benedictis opens his mouth and talks about singing. | 12/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - R Carlos Nakai in the Echoes Chamber | R. Carlos Nakai put the Native American flute on the map and he's taken it to places no one could have ever expected, from canyons to concert halls, world fusions to electric excursions. He sits down in the darkness of the Echoes Chamber where host John Diliberto plays him music, including people who may have influenced him, and artists he has influenced. Join R. Carlos Nakai in the Echoes Chamber as he tries to identify music on the wind. | 12/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Marcin Wasilewski Trio | The Marcin Wasilewski Trio are just barely old enough to remember communist rule in Poland, but to them, jazz represented freedom. They express that freedom in intuitive, and often introspective improvisations that play with colors as much as notes. We talk to these three musicians who have been playing together since they were teenagers. | 11/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Sumner McKane | For several years, guitarist Sumner McKane has been releasing albums of evocative soundscapes dipped in Americana as cinematic as a John Ford western and as nuanced as an Andrew Wyeth painting. But McKane's landscapes are tinged in ambient atmospheres and pulled by an undertow of psychedelia that makes it some of the most unassumingly mind-bending music of the decade. In his home north of Portland, Maine, Sumner McKane takes us through the photo album of his latest CD - What A Great Place to Be. | 11/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter | Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter are best known for playing the Celtic harp, but that doesn't quite convey what happened when they got together on the album, Two Worlds One. Besides their harps, they pulled out violin, bandura, bouzouki, guitar and more, creating enhanced duets on original songs and traditional tunes from Scandinavia. Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter take us on a journey where two worlds and two hearts became one. | 11/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Vic Hennegan | Artists like Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze did have musical children and among them is a musician named Vic Hennegan. He makes a music born of technology and reveling in spacious rhythms and layered timbres. | 11/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Bombay Dub Orchestra | East-west fusions have been going on since at least the early 1960s when Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar sat down with musicians like jazz saxophonist Bud Shank and classical violinist Yehudi Menuhin. That cross-legged crossover hasn't stopped, and one of the latest iterations comes from the Bombay Dub Orchestra. | 10/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Rudy Perrone | Rudy Perrone is a guitarist from Long Island who played progressive rock with a band called Cathedral and explored solo music as an acoustic player. His CD, The Language of Spirits, was produced by Windham Hill Records founder and guitarist, Will Ackerman. Rudy Perrone talks about his journey from prog rock to idyllic acoustics. | 10/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Fernwood | Fernwood is a group that's hard to pin down. They mix Americana elements with Appalachian strings along with bouzoukis from the Middle East and Ireland and sitars from India. Headed up by Todd Montgomery and Gayle Ellett who also plays guitar in the ultra-progressive rock band, Djam Karet, Fernwood creates a global chamber music with Americana accents and cinematically inclined melodies. Fernwood talks about music made on wooden instruments, on Echoes. | 10/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Jesse Cook | Jesse Cook was among a wave of flamenco inspired guitarists who came along in the wake of Ottmar Liebert's Nouveau Flamenco. But he's risen above the crowd with a combination of charismatic showmanship and melodically driven tunes. Jesse comes to the Echoes studio with his band to talk about life after children and turning a Bob Dylan tune into a Rhumba. | 10/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Lights Out Asia | They aren't from Asia, but this Milwaukee trio is making an exotic brand of post-rock music merged with ambient aesthetics. They layer guitars, keyboards, drums and electronics in cinematic landscapes that have a heroic sound despite some foreboding titles like Radars Over the Ghosts of Chernobyl. We talk to these architects of ambient rock about roots that go from shoegazer rock to New Age music. | 10/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Al Di Meola - In the Echoes Chamber | Al Di Meola came to renown with Chick Corea's Return to Forever, garnered his own fame with a string of signature fusion albums, and then returned to acoustic guitar for world fusions and tango dances. In the midst of his reunion tour with Return to Forever, AL Di Meola stepped into the Echoes Chamber, where he talked about music from those who influenced him and those he influenced. | 9/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Near the Parenthesis | Near The Parenthesis is the performance name of Tim Arndt. He's a musician who mixes melodic piano lines with glitchy electronics and moody atmospheres. We go between the parentheses to find out the points and asides of his music. | 9/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Juno Reactor | Juno Reactor is a techno-ambient collective centered on Ben Watkins. He began as a more conventional techno-composer but has expanded his sound considerably to include flamenco guitars, Latin Chants and heavy metal thunder. In recent years he's composed music for the Matrix films. Ben Watkins talks about his own music matrix. | 9/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Ronn McFarlane | Ronn McFarlane plays impeccable early music with the Baltimore Consort, but when he wasn't playing music from Renaissance masters like Anonymous, he was writing his own music which uses contemporary guitar playing techniques and a melodic sensibility that's more cinematic than baroque. Ronn McFarlane talks about his new music for lute on his CD Indigo Road | 9/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - John Cage - Thoughts in Sound | JOHN CAGE - IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES Few contemporary composers had the influence of John Cage. From experimental music to minimalism, Brian Eno to George Winston, echoes of John Cage continue to resound to this day, more than 6 decades after his "Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano" were first published. John Cage was a conceptualist of sound who turned even silence into music as he did with his famous piece, 4 minutes and 33 seconds. John Cage died in August of 1992. but we hear his thoughts in sound from a 1987 interview. | 8/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Alex De Grassi in the Echoes Chamber | Alex De Grassi was among a handful of guitarists who defined finger-style playing in the 1970s and 80s. We put Alex under the headphones and play him music sight unseen as he identifies contemporaries, influences and musical progeny. | 8/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Ozric Tentacles | Ozric Tentacles grew out of 1980s rave culture in England, but they took their cues from the 70s psychedelic space music of Gong more than the thump of techno. Headed up by Ed Wynne, a classic guitar hero with a spacescape mind, they've released several albums and toured relentlessly since they formed at Stonehenge in 1984. Ed and bassist-synthesist Brandi Wynne take us on a trip through the world of Ozric Tentacles. | 8/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Ludovico Einaudi | Italian composer Luciano Berio was an icon of 20th century avant-garde music standing alongside John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Ludovico Einaudi studied with Berio but took a different path towards consonant music and a lush harmonic language that is folk-like in its simplicity. We talk to him about his ambient chamber music. | 8/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Penguin Cafe Orchestra | He scored the strings for the Sid Vicious rendition of the song My Way and hung out with Brian Eno, but Simon Jeffes is best known for his idiosyncratic and influential chamber group, The Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Simon Jeffes died in 1997 but his CDs are all being reissued. We revisit an interview with this pioneering composer. | 7/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Alu | Alu is a Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter, who creates ambient soundscapes for her songs of lost innocence, cultural ennui and interior dialogues. With a voice that sounds like Kate Bush in a cabaret, Alu sings of casket salesmen, circus cosmos and buzzin' brains that populate her captivating fantasy stories. We talk about her sophomore album, Lobotomy Sessions. | 7/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - AES DANA AND SOLAR FIELDS | Ultimae is a boutique French label that's turning into the ECM Records of downtempo and ambient music. Run by Vincent Villuis, who also records as Aes Dana, it's creating a unique identity in the faceless digital age. We talk to Vincent Villuis, his partner, Sunbeam, and Magnus Birgersson of Solar Fields about life in the downtempo zone. | 7/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Kevin Bartlett | Kevin Bartlett is a mutant guitarist who wrestles unearthly sounds and siren calls from his electric instrument. A devotee of progressive rock like Genesis and Mike Oldfield, he's created a progressive opus on his second outing called Glow in the Dark. Kevin Bartlett illuminates his music in an Echoes interview. | 7/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Return to Forever | AN INTERVIEW WITH RETURN TO FOREVER. In the 1970s, Chick Corea's Return to Forever was among the Gods of Fusion. The classic version of that band has gotten back together for a reunion tour. Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke return to the birth of fusion when they talk about Return to Forever then and now on Echoes | 7/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Biomusique | AN INTERVIEW WITH BIOMUSIQUE Biomusique is a new group, but the musicians in it have been making challenging music for years. Lisbeth Scott is the singer from State of Grace and numerous soundtracks including the Narnia films. Greg Ellis was the percussion half of the Persian fusion duo Vas. The two artists get together on a series of meditations for voice and global atmospheres that take them into new and intimate terrain. They bring us with them to the spirit behind The 10,000 Steps. | 6/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Sasha | AN INTERVIEW WITH SASHA Welsh born electronic composer Sasha is one of the early figures of ambient house and rave culture. He mentored musicians like BT and he's recently put out a new collection of remixes that includes his epic soundtrack to the surf film, New Emissions of Light and Sound. Sasha lights us up on Echoes. | 6/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - The Orb | AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ORB It's been 17 years since The Orb unleashed Little Fluffy Clouds on the world and opened the door for groups like the Future Sound of London, Loop Guru and DJ Spooky. Original Orb members Alex Paterson and Youth get back together on a new CD of hallucinogenic grooves and surreal landscapes called The Dream. The Orb talks about their sample and slice journey. | 6/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Gooding | AN INTERVIEW WITH GOODING Gooding is a hard rock guitarist by night with his group, The Angel Devil, but by day he finds a more impressionistic instrumental side where he's often playing acoustic guitar over electronic backings. His albums have a charming retro design with family portraits and titles like Clap If You Love Vampires. | 6/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - The Ahn Trio | The members of the Ahn Trio are the only musicians selected in People Magazine's 50 most beautiful people list who have ever been played on Echoes. But in between photo shoots, the Ahn Trio have been creating a modern chamber music that draws from contemporary classical composers like Kenji Bunch to canny covers of songs by Astor Piazzolla, David Bowie and Michael Nyman. We talk to this trio of Seoul sisters about their impeccable music and the dreamy atmospheres of their latest CD, Lullaby for My Favorite Insomniac. | 5/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Touched by Eno | Musicians who weren't even born when Brian Eno recorded his seminal albums have been touched by his music. Artists from across genres, from pop to avant-garde, African to Asian, have found their music shaped by Eno, sometimes directly, often as a life-changing influence. On Brian Eno's 60th birthday, we hear from some of them including Harold Budd, Loop Guru's Dave Muddyman, David Toop, BT and Bluetech. | 5/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Echoes Interview feature - Brian Eno Profile | Brian Eno celebrates his 60th birthday this week. Rarely has an artist made such a monumental impact on modern music with such subtlety. As part of a week long celebration of Eno's music, we look back at his career with interviews from Eno, Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera, and members of Bang on A Can. | 5/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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