Interview Podcast – Echoes

Interview Podcast – Echoes

Interview Podcast – Echoes

A weekly interview from Echoes, the soundscape of ambient, new acoustic and world fusion music on public radio and on-line at echoes.org.

Echoes Podcast: Immersion & Suss Interview

Echoes Podcast: Immersion & Suss Interview

Krautrock Country with Immersion and SUSS: The Echoes Podcast The Echoes CD of the Month in March is going to be Nanocluster Volume 3. by Immersion and Suss and today in the podcast, I’ve got an interview with them. Immersion is the duo of Colin Newman from the iconic new wave band Wire and Malka Spigel from the Israeli new wave band Minimal Compact. SUSS is the American Ambient Country group with guitarist Bob Holmes, guitarist Pat Irwin of The Raybeats, The B-52s and soundtracks for the last t

Feb 20, • 17:17

Echoes Podcast Special: Steve Roach 70th

Echoes Podcast Special: Steve Roach 70th

Electronic Explorer Steve Roach Turns 70.In 2019 Steve Roach was voted #2 of 30 Icons of Echoes for our 30 year anniversary. Five years later, he was still #2 for our 35th Anniversary and the 35 Icons of Echoes. For the 30th, we created a profile of Steve, and now that he is turning 70 on February 16, 2025,  I thought we’d take a look back at that feature. When we created Echoes, Steve Roach was one of the artists at the forefront of our thoughts.  In fact, he was the first artist ever heard on

Feb 16, • 12:13

Echoes Podcast: Amon Tobin Lost Interview

Echoes Podcast: Amon Tobin Lost Interview

Amon Tobin's psychedelic Dreams: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast I have a lost interview when I talk to the bands Figueroa, Two Fingers and Only Child Tyrant. The only thing is, those aren’t bands, but the various recording personas of Amon Tobin, the electronic composer who is pretty eclectic under his own name. His music has evolved, but at the core, he’s still doing what he did when he started as Cujo in 1996. Amon Tobin: I’ll take something that’s an established form, and I’ll remov

Feb 6, • 18:26

Echoes Podcast: Big Ears Festival 2025

Echoes Podcast: Big Ears Festival 2025

Explore the Big Ears Festival 2025 with founder Ashley Capps in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast we preview the Big Ears Festival 2025 taking place in Knoxville at the end of March. This is an enormous event with over a hundred artists all on the leading edge of whatever music genre they are in and at Big Ears, there are a lot of music genres, all in abundance. This year features more artists from the Echoesphere than ever including Steve Roach, Michael Rother, Marissa Nadler and more. Every

Jan 30, • 27:01

Echoes Podcast: Sasha’s Electronic Da Vinci

Echoes Podcast: Sasha’s Electronic Da Vinci

Days of Genius Past: Sasha's Da Vinci Genius - The Echoes Interview In the Echoes Podcast, the spirit of Leonardo Da Vinci transformed into electronic sound by DJ and producer Sasha. Da Vinci Genius is an immersive exhibit on the life of the Renaissance polymath. Sasha created a score that ranges from orchestrally cinematic to electronically grooving.  You won’t find the Renaissance music of Da Vinci’s era here. Sasha: We did try taking kind of our modern instruments, our modern melo

Jan 23, • 15:30

Echoes Podcast II: Edgar Froese Complete 1982

Echoes Podcast II: Edgar Froese Complete 1982

Remembering Tangerine Dream's Edgar Froese on the 10th Anniversary of his Departure with the Complete 1982 Interview in the Echoes Podcast. On this 10th anniversary of his passing, we remember Edgar Froese with this 1982 interview for the Totally Wired: Artists in Electronic Sound series. Tangerine Dream changed music. Period. There was nothing like them before their 1974 album, Phaedra and a vast landscape of music from Donna Summer’s I Feel Love” to EDM to ambient to dreampop are based on thei

Jan 20, • 1:30:59

Echoes Podcast: John Foxx’s Metamatic

Echoes Podcast: John Foxx’s Metamatic

The Roots of Electro-Pop-John Foxx's Metamatic Turns 45: The Echoes Interview In the 1980s, you couldn’t be sure now long New Wave music would last. But now in 2025, Depeche Mode, Orchestral Manouvres in the Dark and Gary Numan are still recording and touring, and newer bands like Ladytron, Washed Out, Emma Anderson, Maps and World Brain are ascending. It’s a sound that isn’t going away. This year, one of the most influential albums of electro-pop turns 45, Metamatic by John Foxx. JOHN FOXX: Tha

Jan 16, • 17:28

Echoes Podcast: Maps and The Art of Noise 40th

Echoes Podcast: Maps and The Art of Noise 40th

Echoes Podcast: Maps Counter Electronic Melodies and The Art of Noise 40th Anniversary. The Echoes Podcast features two electronic artists, one from the future past and one from the present future, with James Chapman of Maps and The Art of Noise, celebrating the 40th anniversary of their debut album, Who’s Afraid of the Art of Noise! released in June, 1984. The artist known as MAPS has been making exquisitely crafted dreampop music for most of this century. MAPS is James Chapman and

Dec 12, 2024 • 32:29

Echoes Podcast: Emma Anderson Interview

Echoes Podcast: Emma Anderson Interview

Emma Anderson - From Lush to Independence: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, Emma Anderson. 4AD was one of the defining record labels of the 1980s and 90s with artists like Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Clan of Xymox and Wolfgang Press. Among those groups was Lush, the band fronted by the duo of Emma Anderson and Mikki Berenyi. They recorded 3 full studio albums between 1987 and 1996 with the inevitable and short-lived reunion in 2015. Since then Berenyi has written a memoir and releas

Dec 6, 2024 • 16:18

Echoes Podcast: David Borden & Mother Mallard

Echoes Podcast: David Borden & Mother Mallard

The Continuing Story 0f David Borden-An Electronic Pioneer: The Echoes PodcastMother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co. circa 1975 In the Echoes Podcast, a pioneer of electronic music: David Borden, the founding member of Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company. In 1969, he created the group Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company. They were one of the first performing synthesizer bands, managing multiple modular Moogs and Mini-Moog synthesizers. Borden was actually a tes

Nov 21, 2024 • 20:39

Echoes Podcast: Rena Jones & KiloWatts

Echoes Podcast: Rena Jones & KiloWatts

The Ambience Between-Rena Jones & Kilowatts: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, Rena Jones and KiloWatts come on to talk about their new album Caesura. It’s a more complex take on electronica, combining synthesizers with Rena’s violin, viola and cello orchestrations. Rena Jones is a polymath musician who has been a defining voice in ambient chamber music. KiloWatts has been around just as long releasing electronic psybient dreams. They’ve gotten together, remotely for a

Nov 15, 2024 • 17:40

Echoes Podcast: Wendy Carlos Switches On 85

Echoes Podcast: Wendy Carlos Switches On 85

We Celebrate Wendy Carlos' 85th Year in Echoes Podcast We look back at Wendy Carlos on her 85th Birthday. This is actually a feature we did for Wendy’s 70th birthday that we redid for her 80th birthday. You know that a lot of time has passed when your references become dated. With its array of cords and cables crisscrossed in a patchbay, we used to compare it to a telephone switchboard gone crazy. Well, synthesizers don’t look like that anymore, the modular renaissance excepted, and

Nov 14, 2024 • 10:31

Echoes Podcast: Autobahn’s 50th Anniversary

Echoes Podcast: Autobahn’s 50th Anniversary

Kraftwerk's Autobahn at 50: The Echoes Kraftwerk Documentary It’s the 50th Anniversary of Kraftwerk’s Autobahn.  The iconic German electronic band switched on their debut album in November, 1970, but their breakthrough artistically and commercially came in 1974 with an album that broke all the barriers of music, especially in the Top Forty. Ralf Hutter: We could never understand why there were–everybody wanted to stick to the guitars, or the drums because they’re so boring.  And now

Nov 7, 2024 • 31:02

Echoes Podcast: Josse Jaffe & Jim Kimo West

Echoes Podcast: Josse Jaffe & Jim Kimo West

On the Echoes Podcast, two masters of strings, from guitar to ngoni, when we talk to Joss Jaffe and Jim “Kimo” West. Jaffe is a musical explorer. West is a guitarist with a reputation for Hawaiian slack key music but he also plays with Weird Al Yankovic. Go figure. Jaffe studied tabla drum in India and has picked up instruments from around the world. Together they’ve made a serene recordings called Santhi and it includes instruments like the West African ngoni, Indian tablas a

Oct 31, 2024 • 16:15

Echoes Podcast Hans-Joachim Roedelius at 90

Echoes Podcast Hans-Joachim Roedelius at 90

Hans-Joachim Roedelius at 90: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes podcast  we celebrate the 90th Birthday of German Composer, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, born on October 26, 1934. He was a founding member of the bands Cluster and Harmonia, two groups who influenced artists like David Bowie on his Berlin Trilogy and especially Brian Eno, who went on to make music with these musicians as well. But while Roedelius began in the electronic zone, at 90, he says he’s unplugging and just playing acoustic

Oct 24, 2024 • 18:02

Echoes Podcast: Tony Gerber & AI

Echoes Podcast: Tony Gerber & AI

I Sing the Song AI-Tony Gerber and the Singing Poet Society: The Echoes PodcastAI is everywhere and so many places you don’t even know it. Last year we even programmed an entire echoes using AI. It was pretty good, but dated. You know AI is in pop and library music, but there is one musician trying to use it for Art. His name is Tony Gerber and you’ve heard him with the electronic trio Spacecraft, Giles Reaves and Phil Keaggy and on many solo releases. He had the idea of taking class

Oct 17, 2024 • 17:06

Echoes Podcast: London Grammar’s In Love

Echoes Podcast: London Grammar’s In Love

Love, Loss Alienation with London Grammar: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, the British dreampop trio, London Grammar. We talked to them in 2021 about their career and album, Californian Soil, an Echoes CD of the Month. Now they are back with their fourth album, The Greatest Love, also a CD of the Month. We’ve been told it’s a rare thing to get all three member, Hannah Reid, Dot Major and Dan Rothman together for an interview, but you will hear all three today in the E

Oct 10, 2024 • 16:18

Echoes Podcast: The Complete Joe Boyd Interview

Echoes Podcast: The Complete Joe Boyd Interview

A Global Music Journey with Joe Boyd: The Echoes Podcast Last week we brought you the broadcast version of our interview with Joe Boyd.  Well, it was a pretty deep, wide-ranging interview that was hard to condense into 15 minutes so today I’m giving you our entire conversation in the Echoes Podcast..  Just to remind you you, Joe Boyd is a legendary producer and discoverer of new music from Pink Floyd (“Arnold Lane”), Nick Drake, Maria Muldaur, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, and Mu

Oct 3, 2024 • 46:47

Echoes Podcast: Kinobe interview

Echoes Podcast: Kinobe interview

The Exotica Lounge of Kinobe: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, electronic artist Kinobe takes us into his ethereal lounge inspired by Sinatra-era strings and singers, exotica lounge music, 90s’ trip-hop, and the French duo, Air. Kinobe: I grew up in a household where I would hear Nelson Riddle at least once a day, my parents are big Sinatra fans. They like all of the crooners and then artists like Percy Faith. I love those sounds. Kinobe’s new album, Out of the Blue, is nothing sh

Sep 26, 2024 • 14:57

Echoes Podcast: The Joe Boyd Interview

Echoes Podcast: The Joe Boyd Interview

A Global Music Journey with Joe Boyd: The Echoes Podcast Joe Boyd is a legend in music, from producing Pink Floyd (“Arnold Lane”), Nick Drake, Maria Muldaur, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, and Muzsikás, to his Hannibal world music label, and more. A few years ago he wrote a great book that was a memoir of his life in the rock and roll world, White Bicycles. Now he’s written a deep dive into the influence of world music on western culture called And the Roots of Rhythm Remain &#821

Sep 19, 2024 • 18:24

Echoes Podcast: Trentemøller & Michael Garrison

Echoes Podcast: Trentemøller & Michael Garrison

Trentemøller's Shoegaze Dream Pop and Michael Garrison, a Pioneer Remembered: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, two features with Trentemøller and Michael Garrison Trentemøller Danish composer Trentemøller, the performance name of Anders Trentemøller, a Danish Dream Pop musician who emerged out of the techno scene at the turn of the century. But since his 2006 debut, his music has evolved considerably and become more song focused and richly textured. That continues on his 7th studio albu

Sep 12, 2024 • 27:14

Echoes Podcast: David Arkenstone

Echoes Podcast: David Arkenstone

David Arkenstone's Quest for the Runestone: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast we go on a quest with David Arkenstone. A five-time Grammy nominee, he’s been a fixture in instrumental music since his 1987 debut, Valley in the Clouds. Many of his 70 or so albums are based in themes of fantasy and mythology and his latest goes that way full bore. David Arkenstone: Yeah, you know, people like it. I missed it. There were characters and titles and activities and a giant and all these thing

Sep 5, 2024 • 15:33

Echoes Podcast: Jaymie Rose Hennegan

Echoes Podcast: Jaymie Rose Hennegan

From Transistors to Trans: Jaymie Rose Hennegan-The Echoes Podcast Vic Hennegan is an artist who has been on the show many times over the last two decades. The last appearance was broadcast in 2023 from a 2022 Echoes performance. Back then Hennegan was black, bald and masculine. He’s still black, but everything else has changed since the transition to Jaymie Rose Hennegan. Everything except, the music. Jaymie Rose Hennegan: I have photos of me at like 19, 20 years old putting dresses on. Y

Jul 25, 2024 • 15:15

Echoes Podcast: Rich Ruth and Steve Roach

Echoes Podcast: Rich Ruth and Steve Roach

Rich Ruth's Eclectic Fusion & Steve Roach Structures from Silence at 40 in Echoes Podcast.Rich Ruth with Mikaela Davis at Johnny Brenda’s Photo: J.Diliberto In  a double-shot Echoes Podcast we’ll hear from Rich Ruth and Steve Roach talking about the anniversary of Structures from Silence First in the Echoes Podcast we talk to Rich Ruth. That’s the performance name of Michael Ruth, a multi-instrumentalist from Nashville.  With Rich Ruth, you can hear 4 or five influences in any

Jul 18, 2024 • 30:31

Echoes Podcast: Tim Blake Interview

Echoes Podcast: Tim Blake Interview

Tim Blake's Crystal Cognition from Gong to Hawkwind to Crystal Machine: The Echoes Podcast Electronic artist Tim Blake was there at the beginning, playing synth for space rockers Gong and Hawkwind and launching his own project of synthesizers and lasers, Crystal Machine. Now a triple CD box of his first three albums has been released as Crystal Presence. It includes his albums, Crystal Machine, Blake’s New Jerusalem and Magick. John Diliberto gets in the teapot with Tim Blake on Echoes fro

Jul 11, 2024 • 19:34

Echoes Podcast: Immersion’s Colin Newman & Malka Spigel

Echoes Podcast: Immersion’s Colin Newman & Malka Spigel

Nanocluster Fun with Immersion's Colin Newman and Malka Spigel: The Echoes Podcast Colin Newman is part of the iconic post-punk band Wire. Malka Spigel is from the Israeli group Minimal Compact. Together they record as Immersion.  With their new series of albums, Nanocluster, they work with collaborators, sort of Immersion Plus, and that music is different depending on who they collaborate with. Their new album, Nanocluster Volume 2, with Thor Harris (Swans,Thor & Friends) and Cubzoa, takes

Jun 27, 2024 • 16:52

Echoes Podcast: A Trip with Zanias

Echoes Podcast: A Trip with Zanias

Zanias! #1 in The Best of Echoes 2024, So Far: The Echoes Podcast Interview This week we dropped our list of The Best of Echoes 2024, So Far Top 30. It’s our trip through our favorite recordings as we hit the mid-point of the year. Topping that list at number one is an artist who many people probably still don’t know even though I’ve been playing her endlessly on Echoes. Her name is Zanias and her album is Ecdysis.  Zanias usually sings words, but on her latest album, she takes

Jun 20, 2024 • 18:54

Echoes Podcast: Carl Craig’s Techno Travels

Echoes Podcast: Carl Craig’s Techno Travels

Carl Craig's Revolutionary Art: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast,  a giant of techno music  Carl Craig. His music burst through all the stereotypes of techno to create a more symphonic sound and he’s even had his music played with a symphony. Under many names, he’s been releasing solo music and remixing everyone from Tori Amos to Manuel Göttsching to Depeche Mode. A new documentary, Desire: The Carl Craig Story debuts in June at the Tribeca Film Festival. I had my own convers

Jun 13, 2024 • 17:38

Echoes Podcast: Sean Ono Lennon Complete

Echoes Podcast: Sean Ono Lennon Complete

Sean Ono Lennon: The Complete Echoes Interview A couple of weeks ago, I brought you our produced interview with Sean Ono Lennon. But that interview was so good and so wide-ranging, I thought you might like to hear the entire interview. Lennon is, of course, the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono and we talked about that, especially their use of astrology. And we talk a lot about music because Lennon is something of an omnivore when it comes to different genres. And of course, we talk a lot about hi

Jun 6, 2024 • 0:00

Echoes Podcast-Oster-Downes-Eaton Interview

Echoes Podcast-Oster-Downes-Eaton Interview

A Conversation with Jeff Oster, Vin Downes & Tom Eaton About Seven Conversations: The Echoes PodcastIn the Echoes Podcast, one conversation with three artists who have put out an album called Seven Conversations. They are trumpeter Jeff Oster, guitarist Vin Downes and 6 multi-instrumentalist Tom Eaton. These are three musicians you’ve heard a lot on Echoes with their solo albums as well as collaborative works in FLOW, the trio of Jeff Oster, Tom Eaton and Will Ackerman trio and numerous Wi

May 30, 2024 • 0:00

Echoes Podcast: Trio Mediaeval Interview

Echoes Podcast: Trio Mediaeval Interview

The Transcendence of Trio Mediaeval: The Echoes PodcastTrio Mediaeval at Bg Ears Festival with John Diliberto Photo: Jeff Towne In the Echoes Podcast, the celestial sounds of Trio Mediaeval. This extraordinary group of singers channel sounds from the Middle ages up through contemporary composers. We talk to them about their quarter-century journey into the past.  They are Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Anna Maria Friman and Jorunn Lovise Husan. Their latest album is An Old Hall Ladymass.  Although they s

May 23, 2024 • 0:00

Echoes Podcast: Sean Ono Lennon

Echoes Podcast: Sean Ono Lennon

Sean Ono Lennon's Inner Mounting Psychedelia: The Echoes Podcast In this weeks Echoes Podcast we’re I’m thrilled to bring you an interview with Sean Ono Lennon. Yes, he’s the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono but if your knowledge of him ends there you are in for a pleasant surprise. He’s been creating his own music over the years with a decided bend toward psychedelia and it’s something that comes out on his new album, Asterisms, inspired by The Inner Mounting Flame record from The Mahavish

May 16, 2024 • 17:25

Echoes Podcast: Dark Sky Alliance

Echoes Podcast: Dark Sky Alliance

Dark Sky Alliance - Progressive Ambient: The Echoes Interview It’s a meeting of artists creating an ambient world, when we talk to Dark Sky Alliance featuring Peter Gabriel drummer Jerry Marotta, guitarist David Helpling, keyboardist Rupert Greenall from The Fixx, and electronic artist Eric “The” Taylor. Their sound is what happens when New Age and New Wave double-date with Progressive Rock and Ambient. Their debut album, Interdwell, is a study in ambience and soundscaping released on the ambien

May 9, 2024 • 16:40

Echoes Podcast: Limina’s Tyler Durham

Echoes Podcast: Limina’s Tyler Durham

Limina's Orchestral Music Between Worlds: The Echoes Podcast Take Sigur Ros, add in strings and a more classical sensibility, and you wind up with Limina. That’s the project of Tyler Durham. He’s a journeyman film composer who creates additional music to accompany scores by Pinar Toprak and James Newton Howard. But Limina is his own expression. He creates his music electronically, but then takes his string and orchestral parts to a real orchestra to perform.  Then he messes with that elect

May 2, 2024 • 17:12

Echoes Podcast: A Trip with Zanias

Echoes Podcast: A Trip with Zanias

A Long Psychedelic Trip with Zanias: The Echoes Podcast Zanias usually sings words, but on her latest album, Ecdysis, she takes inspiration from Dead Can Dance and Lisa Gerrard and as well as hallucinogenics. I’m just so incredibly fascinated by consciousness and the human mind and everything that it’s capable of. So I had to explore everything that I read about when I was a teenager. And I was actually very young when I first experienced psychedelics. It was in Asia and it was magic

Apr 25, 2024 • 18:16

Echoes Podcast: Roger Eno Ascends

Echoes Podcast: Roger Eno Ascends

A Journey in Ambient Classical Music with Roger Eno: The Echoes PodcastJohn Diliberto and Roger Eno Brian Eno is a giant figure in modern music and certainly here on Echoes. But in Eno’s shadow resides his brother, Roger Eno, 11 years younger. While Brian used to say he was a non-musician, Roger is very much a classically trained musician, and now he’s on the most legendary classical label, Deutsche Grammophon. Roger Eno: I’m now on Deutsche Grammophon, which to me is a huge accolade. When

Apr 18, 2024 • 19:25

Echoes Podcast: Le Morte D’Abby

Echoes Podcast: Le Morte D’Abby

An Electronic Life with Le Morte d'Abby: The Echoes Podcat Le Morte d’Abby means “the death of Abby,” but Abigail Lentz, who assumed that artist name, is very much alive and creating some exhilarating electronic music. She was a military brat, but she was also a goth. Now she marshals sequencers, getting them in line. She’s living at the intersection of electronic space music and EDM, modular synthesis and computer synths. IN fact there is much that is in between with this arti

Apr 11, 2024 • 14:34

Echoes Podcast: Kaleida’s Dream-Pop

Echoes Podcast: Kaleida’s Dream-Pop

A Kaleidoscopic View of Kaleida: The Echoes Podcast Interview On the next Echoes, the British-American Duo, Kaleida talk about their album, In Arms. It’s an album fraught with biblical, personal and political references. Christina Wood: It was meant to have a double meaning. It was meant to be like holding babies in arms but also arming yourself to keep on going. This British-American-German dream pop duo are creating an entrancing sound, much of it emerging from their trans-oceanic separa

Mar 20, 2024 • 16:35

Podcast: Quiet Resonance and Big Ears Fest

Podcast: Quiet Resonance and Big Ears Fest

Echoes Podcast: The Ministry of Quiet Resonance and Ashley Capps Opens Our Big Ears It’s Quiet Resonance on the next Echoes when we talk to Tony Pounders. As Quiet Resonance, he composes guitar orchestrations that range from ambient to pastoral to pure space. He also has another side to his life that might surprise you. He’s from Mississippi, a place with a deep musical heritage but not a fountain of ambient, electronic or new age music. If you love Jeff Pearce, Suss and Lanterna you may

Mar 14, 2024 • 32:07

Echoes Podcast: Big Ears Founder Ashley Capps

Echoes Podcast: Big Ears Founder Ashley Capps

Big Ears Festival Founder Ashley Capps Exploding Music Show!Today in the Echoes Podcast we explore Big Ears Festival 2024. This is the annual new music extravaganza in Knoxville, Tennessee of bleeding edge sounds, free jazz, deep ambient and very much more since 2009. This years festival features Andre 3000, Herbie Hancock, Laraaji, Laurie Anderson, King Britt and about 200 other performers across four days from March 21-24. I’ve been talking to founder Ashley Capps annually about the festival s

Mar 7, 2024 • 26:58

Echoes Podcast: Tangerine Dream Phaedra at 50

Echoes Podcast: Tangerine Dream Phaedra at 50

The 50th anniversary of Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra and The Tangerine Dream DocumentaryIn the Echoes Podcast, head into psychedelic space on the 50th anniversary of Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra. This is a seminal album of electronic music that essentially launched the whole sequencer school of electronics. We’ll hear a meditation on Phaedra with Moby, Mark Shreeve, Ian Boddy, Steve Roach, and Ulrich Schnauss as well as most of the Phaedra album.  Then as a bonus, we’re putting up our docu

Feb 22, 2024 • 42:26

Echoes Podcast: Kevin Keller & Hildegard

Echoes Podcast: Kevin Keller & Hildegard

21st Century Mediaeval Hymns; Kevin Keller-The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, we go to the monastery when Kevin Keller talks about his album, Evensong. It’s partly based on the chants and hymns of 12th century Abbess Hildegard von Bingen. You might recall the chant craze of the 1990s when The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo singing gothic hymns were topping the charts, and artists like Enigma were adapting chants into their music. But rising above them all were the 12th century c

Feb 1, 2024 • 16:26

Podcast: Russel Walder Storms the Psyche

Podcast: Russel Walder Storms the Psyche

Riding the Storm with Russel Walder: The Echoes Podcast Our CD Of The Month in November was Speak to the Storm by Russel Walder.  It was so compelling we had to talk to the oboe player who we first knew as one half of the duo Ira Stein and Russel Walder on Windham Hill Records.  The music he makes on his own in his adopted home of New Zealand, is quite a bit darker than anything he recorded with the duo. When he says speak to the storm, he means it. Russel Walder: I absolutely believe that the i

Jan 25, 2024 • 18:08

Echoes Podcast: Tim Story, Roedelius and Neu!

Echoes Podcast: Tim Story, Roedelius and Neu!

Tim Story, Michael Rother, Roedelius and Neu!: The Echoes InterviewsTim Story and Hans-Joachim Roedelius Tim Story used to be the ultimate melodicist with albums like The Perfect Flaw and Beguiled. But now he’s mutating sounds, often with German icon, Roedelius. Tim Story is something of a legend in electronic and new age circles. He’s been recording since 1981 and was a pioneer in ambient chamber music with albums like Shadowplay.  But he also has an edgier side that has come out in his work wi

Jan 18, 2024 • 25:48

Echoes Podcast: Lou Reed, Iasos, Steven Halpern

Echoes Podcast: Lou Reed, Iasos, Steven Halpern

Opposites Meet with Lou Reed, Iasos and Steven Halpern in the Echoes Podcast Before he died in 2013, Lou Reed created an ambient album called Hudson River Wind Meditations that tapped into his spiritual side. Now that the album is being re-released in a deluxe edition, we go back to our interview with Reed talking about it. Lou Reed was an iconic figure in modern music.  The founder of The Velvet Underground, he provided a counterpart to the hippies and flower power of the era, trawling a darker

Jan 11, 2024 • 41:30

Echoes Podcast: David Arkenstone Interview

Echoes Podcast: David Arkenstone Interview

The Sound of Winter: David Arkenstone-The Echoes Podcast David Arkenstone talks about his album, Winterlude.  In the glut of seasonal albums that come out, few rise above the pack. This year, the one star shining in a sea of gilded snow is David Arkenstone’s Winterlude. The 5-time Grammy nominee has created a post-classical chamber work that perfectly evokes the season. And he did it without two elements you’ll hear on every seasonal recording. There are no carols and.no sleighbells. Join John D

Dec 21, 2023 • 11:50

Echoes Podcast:  Lane, Gregorius & Smith

Echoes Podcast: Lane, Gregorius & Smith

The Ambient Firm of Lane, Gregorius and Smith: The Echoes Podcast Brannan Lane, John Gregorius and Sean O’Bryan Smith come from different musical worlds that range from deep country and western to deep ambience. They are something of a new age supergroup with 3 musicians, all of who have long and in the case of one, varied careers. They are electronic artist Brannan Lane, guitarist John Gregorius and bassist Sean O’Bryan Smith. They can claim country, rock, pop, jazz, ambient, electronic and new

Dec 14, 2023 • 16:55

Echoes Podcast: Hans Christian & David Darling

Echoes Podcast: Hans Christian & David Darling

Hans Christian Communes with the Music and Spirit of Cellist David Darling: The Echoes PodcastDavid Darling was one of the premier new music cellists.  He first came to renown performing with the Paul Winter Consort, including work on their classic album, Icarus. He went on to a solo career that has included several recordings on the ECM label, playing both solo cello and in often edgy collaborations with musicians like guitarists Terje Rypdal and Ralph Towner.  On a trio of albums that began wi

Dec 7, 2023 • 18:48

Echoes Podcast II: OMD Interview Complete

Echoes Podcast II: OMD Interview Complete

This History of Electronic Pop: Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark: The Complete Interview Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark was a band at the leading edge of the electronic pop movement of the 1980s. Just behind acts like The Normal, Gary Numan and Cabaret Voltaire, they brought electronic pop to the top of the English charts. When they began, they thought they were part of a musical revolution. The core of the band is founding members Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphries and after a long hiatus,

Nov 22, 2023 • 45:48

Echoes Podcast II: Edgar Froese Complete 1982

Echoes Podcast II: Edgar Froese Complete 1982

Tangerine Dream Founder Edgar Froese's Complete 1982 Interview in the Echoes Podcast Tangerine Dream changed music. Period. There was nothing like them before their 1974 album, Phaedra and a vast landscape of music from Donna Summer’s I Feel Love” to EDM to ambient to dreampop are based on their sonic designs. Edgar Froese was the guiding light of Tangerine Dream. He founded the group as an experimental band in the 1960s and guided them through a music that was wed to technology, even if Froese

Nov 15, 2023 • 1:30:59

Echoes Podcast I: Darkside Interview

Echoes Podcast I: Darkside Interview

Darkside's Psychic Debut: The Echoes Interview Darkside is the name of a trippy duo that mixes electronics with expansive guitar solos, heavy rhythms and swirling textures. They met in Brown University and began performing together when David Harrington played guitar in Nicolas Jaar’s touring band.  Free improvisations in their hotel room led to their first real collaboration. Their debut album, Psychic, is getting the 10th Anniversary Reissue treatment. They talk about improvising electronics,

Oct 26, 2023 • 11:13

Echoes Podcast Hammock 2023 Complete Interview

Echoes Podcast Hammock 2023 Complete Interview

Hammock Out of the Void: The Complete Echoes Interview Last January I had a great interview with Hammock, the ambient guitar duo.  It was long and wide-ranging but we could only fit so much into a 15-minute piece. Today, however, I bring you the complete interview where Hammock talk about their latest album, Love in the Void. as well as religion, therapy, sobriety, and the return of guitars that sound like guitars to their music. Love in the Void is a post-pandemic release and one of their most

Oct 24, 2023 • 43:28

Echoes Podcast: Devo-The Complete Interview

Echoes Podcast: Devo-The Complete Interview

Devo Turns 50. Hear Their Previously Unreleased 1987 InterviewThey haven’t recorded anything new in over a decade, and nothing for twenty years before that.  Their most consequential body of work was at the turn of the 1980s where they presaged New Wave music. But Devo remains a singularly unique entity. There is no one like them and their influence has been broad and deep . Their music is laced with irony and social commentary, married to a mechanized music aesthetic and a dadaesque visual aest

Oct 18, 2023 • 1:04:11

Echoes Podcast: Opium Moon Interview

Echoes Podcast: Opium Moon Interview

Opium Moon's Sound of Unity and Sensuality: The Echoes Podcast Interview Today we journey into world fusion with Opium Moon. This is the Grammy winning ensemble who are part of a new wave of artists fusing sounds from the Middle east. Their music taps the overtly sensual sounds of this region. But Opium Moon’s Lili Hadyn says it’s all about the spirit. Lili Hayden: Honestly, it’s all about flow. We’re letting the spirit move through us and if it’s coming though in a more sensual way, god bless.

Oct 12, 2023 • 18:42

Echoes Podcast II: Mimi Page Complete

Echoes Podcast II: Mimi Page Complete

Mimi Page: Dream Pop, Deep Trauma, and Healing: The Complete Interview in Echoes Podcast Mimi Page is an auteur of electronic dream pop and a composer of video game scores. You’ve heard her music turn up in TV series like Dark.  We’ve been intoxicated by her for years whether it’s her serene vocals on Breathe Me In, the celestial choirs of Dark Before the Dawn, her collaborations with Delerium or her own evocative instrumentals. But her new album, Sound Healing Volume 1 takes h

Oct 10, 2023 • 50:30

Echoes Podcast: Jeff Oster & Al Petteway R.I.P.

Echoes Podcast: Jeff Oster & Al Petteway R.I.P.

Trumpeter Jeff Oster Goes Lo-Fi & Al Petteway Remembered in the Echoes Podcast: The Echoes InterviewPhoto Credit: Irene Young We go lo-fi and ambient jazz when Jeff Oster talks about his new album, hØwling lØØn. Known for his work with Will Ackerman and FLOW, Oster creates a surreal loungescape that’s quite a bit different. He plays more trumpet than he has in years, uses samples and found sound, and finds himself with an audience that’s demographically inverse from the one he usually has

Oct 5, 2023 • 25:29

Echoes Podcast II: Steve Roach & Robert Rich

Echoes Podcast II: Steve Roach & Robert Rich

Steve Roach & Robert Rich's Tangerine Dream Experience: The Echoes InterviewIn this Echoes Podcast episode, I’ve got a special interview with two icons of Echoes who recently played with another icon of Echoes.  Tangerine Dream recently toured the US and in several cities, they invited specials guest to perform with them in the improvised encore segment that they call Sessions. In Tucson and San Diego, they picked Steve Roach. In San Francisco, Robert Rich.  Of course, both musicians cite

Oct 4, 2023 • 38:05

Echoes Podcast I: Lis Addison Interview

Echoes Podcast I: Lis Addison Interview

The Ambient Jungle: Lis Addison in Echoes Podcast Lis Addison is a musician, singer, dancer and electronic artist.  She was schooled in the avant-garde at Mills College with musicians like Terry Riley as teachers. But she fled that for a different sound that embodies chant, meditation, ambient music and often, actual songs.  She has a new album inspired by her visits and environmental work in Kenya. It’s called Songs From The Mara. We go on safari with Lis Addison, in the Echoes Podcast from PRX

Sep 28, 2023 • 17:13

Echoes Podcast II: Ladytron Complete Interview

Echoes Podcast II: Ladytron Complete Interview

Ladytron's Plugged in World: The Echoes Podcast Complete Interview Back in May of this year I interviewed the electronic pop band Ladytron. We ran that feature on Echoes and in the Podcast in the usual, produced form in a 16 minute feature. We only used a small portion of it in the feature, but that interview was such a blast that I thought you might want to hear all of it.  If you don’t know Ladytron, they take their name from a Roxy Music song and they’ve been creating electrified

Sep 26, 2023 • 1:05:10

Echoes Podcast: An Interview with Brazil’s Anna

Echoes Podcast: An Interview with Brazil’s Anna

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Sep 21, 2023 • 18:09

Echoes Podcast: Secret Sky Interview

Echoes Podcast: Secret Sky Interview

Secret Sky with Caroline Lavelle and Brian Hughes in Echoes Podcast. In the Echoes Podcast we hear from Secret Sky, the world fusion group comprised of Loreena McKennitt band members,’ cellist and singer Caroline Lavelle and guitarist Brian Hughes. They recently released their second album, Opium. They talk about their folk roots, and their move from traditional English folk songs to all original material, with a sound drawn from the same Middle Eastern and Celtic realms as Loreena McKenn

Sep 14, 2023 • 18:27

Echoes Podcast II: Tangerine Dream 2023

Echoes Podcast II: Tangerine Dream 2023

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Sep 7, 2023 • 16:29

Echoes Podcast I: Deborah Martin & Jill Haley

Echoes Podcast I: Deborah Martin & Jill Haley

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Aug 24, 2023 • 18:41

Echoes Podcast II: Moby 2011 Complete

Echoes Podcast II: Moby 2011 Complete

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Aug 22, 2023 • 43:25

Echoes Podcast I: Mimi Page Interview

Echoes Podcast I: Mimi Page Interview

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Aug 17, 2023 • 22:05

Echoes Podcast II: John McLaughlin Complete

Echoes Podcast II: John McLaughlin Complete

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Aug 15, 2023 • 42:06

Echoes Podcast: SUSS & Balmorhea

Echoes Podcast: SUSS & Balmorhea

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Aug 10, 2023 • 35:33

Echoes Podcast 1: Robert Rich Complete

Echoes Podcast 1: Robert Rich Complete

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Aug 9, 2023 • 42:12

Echoes Podcast: Nathan Speir Interview

Echoes Podcast: Nathan Speir Interview

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Aug 5, 2023 • 18:22

Echoes Podcast: BT 2023 Complete

Echoes Podcast: BT 2023 Complete

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Aug 1, 2023 • 51:04

Echoes Podcast: Amaara/Kaelen Ohm

Echoes Podcast: Amaara/Kaelen Ohm

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Jul 27, 2023 • 18:17

Echoes Podcast: Robert Rich & A Produce

Echoes Podcast: Robert Rich & A Produce

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Jul 23, 2023 • 27:28

Echoes Podcast:  BT’s Nature in Wires

Echoes Podcast: BT’s Nature in Wires

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Jul 13, 2023 • 19:48

Echoes Podcast: Whipped Cream Interview

Echoes Podcast: Whipped Cream Interview

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Jul 6, 2023 • 17:26

Echoes Podcast: John McLaughlin’s Shakti

Echoes Podcast: John McLaughlin’s Shakti

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Jun 29, 2023 • 20:05

Echoes Podcast: Shana Cleveland

Echoes Podcast: Shana Cleveland

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Jun 22, 2023 • 16:06

Echoes Podcast: Caterina Barbieri

Echoes Podcast: Caterina Barbieri

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Jun 15, 2023 • 18:10

Echoes Podcast: Delerium

Echoes Podcast: Delerium

Echoes Podcast: The Dream Pop Dynasty of Delerium - The Echoes Interview We enter a hallucinogenic state when we talk with Delerium, the long-lived Canadian dream pop duo. They emerged out of the industrial rock of Front Line Assembly in 1987 and have run in parallel in a perfect yin & yang of noise and serenity. We’ll talk to founder Bill Leeb and longtime collaborator Rhys Fulber about their electronic approach to pop, and working with some of the more heavenly vocalists on the planet, includi

Jun 8, 2023 • 17:55

Echoes Podcast: John Robb’s Goth History

Echoes Podcast: John Robb’s Goth History

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Jun 1, 2023 • 17:36

Echoes Podcast: Ladytron & Mike Oldfield

Echoes Podcast: Ladytron & Mike Oldfield

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May 25, 2023 • 33:31

Echoes Podcast: Moby Resounds

Echoes Podcast: Moby Resounds

Echoes Podcast; Moby Resounds Past Present Future: The Echoes Interview In the Echoes Podcast, Moby. Moby is one of those artists who is hard to keep up with. It’s been about three years since our last conversation. In that time, he’s released five albums including his latest, Resound NYC, about 10 non-album singles, several videos and a documentary film the Punk Rock Vegan Movie. He also started his own label, Always Centered at Night, to release work with other singers. Moby:  Because singers

May 18, 2023 • 20:28

Echoes Podcast: Michael Whalen

Echoes Podcast: Michael Whalen

Michael Whalen's Virtual Super-Group Michael Whalen trips into the fantastic with his new album, Our April Tigers. He’s gathered a super-group that includes guitarist Michael Brook, bassist Michael Manring, trumpeter Jeff Oster, and percussionist Karsh Kale. The title is AI-generated and the music was crafted remotely. Hear Whalen, Brook, and Oster talk about their blindfolded creation that sounds like a meeting of Miles Davis, Jon Hassell, and Patrick O’Hearn, in the Echoes Podcast from PRX. Ke

Apr 27, 2023 • 17:08

Echoes Podcast: Ibeyi’s World Fusion Pop

Echoes Podcast: Ibeyi’s World Fusion Pop

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Apr 20, 2023 • 17:39

Podcast: Vangelis 1982 Interview Complete

Podcast: Vangelis 1982 Interview Complete

Words of a Synth God: Vangelis-The Complete 1982 Totally Wired InterviewA true God of electronic music, Vangelis, ascended the heavens at age 79 on May 17th, 2022. Although his glory days were in the 1970s and 80s, he was just coming back into form with albums like Rosetta and Juno to Jupiter. Vangelis is an artist better known by his work than his name. Mention the Greek synthesist to the general public and you’ll likely get a quizzical stare. Remind them that he scored Chariots of Fire, his Ac

Mar 30, 2023 • 1:38:54

Echoes Podcast: Steve Roach/Simon Emmerson

Echoes Podcast: Steve Roach/Simon Emmerson

Echoes Podcast Steve Roach & Linda Kohanov and Afro Celt Sound System Founder Simon Emmerson Remembered. In 1984 Steve Roach released what remains one of his two best known recordings, Structures from Silence. Now, nearly 40 years later he returns to that sound on the album, Rest of Life. It’s a double CD of mostly quiet and deep ruminations.  There’s no digeridoos or modular synthesizers, but there is the electric violin of his wife, Linda Kohanov. From their home in the Arizona desert, they ta

Mar 23, 2023 • 38:32

Echoes Podcast: Didon’s Arabic Fusion

Echoes Podcast: Didon’s Arabic Fusion

Didon's Arabic World Fusion: The Echoes Interview with Carmen Rizzo & Meriem Ben Amor We explore the Arabic fusion of Didon. We talk to producer Carmen Rizzo (Niyaz, Huun-Huur-Tu, Delerium, Alanis Morissette) and Tunisian singer Meriem Ben Amor about their fusion of traditional vocal sounds and electronic arrangements heard on their debut, Tunisian Tale. It is sensual, mystical and mysterious in the Echoes Podcast. DIDON INTERVIEW PLAYLIST Didon – Faraway Land – Tunisian Tale Al Imam Al Busiri A

Mar 16, 2023 • 14:37

Echoes Podcast: Klaus Schulze 1982 Interview Pt.2

Echoes Podcast: Klaus Schulze 1982 Interview Pt.2

Klaus Schulze: The Complete Totally Wired Interview Part Two.In this Podcast, the second part of our two-part 1982 interview with Klaus Schulze. He’s an Icon of Echoes, an Icon of Electronic Music and an icon period. All three are German electronic composer Klaus Schulze. He left the planet last year on April 26, but from 1969 until that date, he released hundreds of albums and shaped a generation of electronic artists including Steve Roach, Jean-Michel Jarre, Hans Zimmer, and many more. I have

Mar 9, 2023 • 1:26:01

Echoes Podcast: Klaus Schulze 1982 Interview Pt.1

Echoes Podcast: Klaus Schulze 1982 Interview Pt.1

Klaus Schulze: The Complete Echoes/Totally Wired Interview Pt.1In this Podcast, an Icon of Echoes, an Icon of Electronic Music and an icon period. All three are German electronic composer Klaus Schulze. He left the planet last year on April 26, but from 1969 until that date, he released hundreds of albums and shaped a generation of electronic artists including Steve Roach, Jean-Michel Jarre, Hans Zimmer, and many more. I have an interview with Schulze recorded in 1982 at his home in what was the

Mar 2, 2023 • 1:30:31

Echoes Podcast: Ashley Capps Big Ears

Echoes Podcast: Ashley Capps Big Ears

Sound Unbound: Big Ears Festival Preview with Ashley Capps in Echoes Podcast In the echoes Podcast a preview of the Big Ears Festival 2023. Founder Ashley Capps had his musical epiphany with The Mothers of Invention and their second album, Absolutely Free which, like all early albums from Frank  Zappa, had the Edgar Varese quote, “The modern day composer refuses to die.”  Capps took that to heart with his musical exploration and Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN.   He tells us about some highli

Feb 23, 2023 • 15:21

Echoes Podcast: Karmacoda and Sunroof

Echoes Podcast: Karmacoda and Sunroof

Decoding Karmacoda and Sunroof's Joy of Wires and Knobs: The Echoes Podcast InterviewsGet your soul shoes on when we talk to Karmacoda.  They started out as a trip-hop inspired band but have transitioned into a sound that is more 70s R&B. We talk to the singer Jessica Ford and instrumentalist and singer Brett Crockett about their soulful affinities, their new album, Lessons in Time, and American Idol. It all connects in the music of Karmacoda.

Feb 16, 2023 • 30:38

Echoes Podcast: Hammock Out of the Void

Echoes Podcast: Hammock Out of the Void

Hammock Delivers Us from the Void: The Echoes Podcast The ambient guitar duo Hammock talk about their latest album, Love in the Void. It’s a post-pandemic release and one of their most energized albums in years. Hammock’s Love in the Void sounds like an album from a band who has emerged from a long dark tunnel. The music they made in that tunnel was deep and immersive, wrapping you in a cocoon of sound. But Love in the Void carries you on a lighter, also more aggressive plane. Marc Byrd: Honestl

Feb 9, 2023 • 17:43

Echoes Podcast: Brian Eno Interview

Echoes Podcast: Brian Eno Interview

Brian Eno-Totally Wired-The Complete InterviewBrian Eno should need no introduction to any music fan. A member of Roxy Music, architect of Ambient Music, producer at the edges of Pop, his mark has been felt across music, from classical to rock and beyond.  In 1987, I conducted the first of several interviews with Eno across three  decades. Bits and pieces have been heard in the 80s radio series Totally Wired-Artists in Electronic Sound and on Echoes.  But it has never been heard in its 64-minute

Feb 2, 2023 • 1:07:54

Echoes Podcast: Marconi Union Interview

Echoes Podcast: Marconi Union Interview

Marconi Union's A Live Connection in Echoes Podcast Marconi Union are a UK electronic trio that rarely performs live, but they’re releasing concert film called Marconi Union: A Live Connection. We talk to them about bringing their moody, atmospheric sound to a live setting. It’s a pay-per-view video which will be available on a limited-time basis. Premium Ticket buyers will also be able to stream Signals, an additional film featuring the band performing material from their most recent album Sign

Jan 26, 2023 • 15:38

Echoes Podcast: Meredith Monk

Echoes Podcast: Meredith Monk

Imaginary Voices. Meredith Monk: The Echoes Podcast Interview Hear the voice of the collective subconscious in Meredith Monk. Before Elizabeth Fraser, Lisa Gerrard and Azam Ali, there was Meredith Monk, singing in her own, abstracted language, creating a sound like folk songs from another planet. A 13-CD set of her music, The Recordings on ECM Records has just been released. We talk with Meredith Monk about ritual, aural ascension, and mysterious voices, on the Echoes Podcast.

Jan 19, 2023 • 17:53

Echoes Podcast: Cosey Fanni Tutti

Echoes Podcast: Cosey Fanni Tutti

A Trio of Resister Sisters: The Echoes Interview with Cosey Fanni Tutti in Echoes Podcast. Throbbing Gristle was an English band at the bleeding edge of Industrial rock. Cosey Fanni Tutti was at the center of that band and and one half of the duos, Chris & Cosey and CarterTutti, both with her husband and ex-TG member, Chris Carter. In her acclaimed 2017 autobiography, Art Sex Music, she talked about her career in music as well as her work in stripping, pornographic films and magazines, which she

Jan 12, 2023 • 17:12

Echoes Podcast: Remembering Jimi Hendrix

Echoes Podcast: Remembering Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix at 80: Producer Eddie Kramer Looks Back Jimi Hendrix would’ve turned 80 this past November 27th.  We celebrate by talking to Eddie Kramer, producer and engineer of Hendrix’s first three albums and many of the posthumous releases as well as John McDermott, Hendrix curator for Experience Hendrix and author of several books on the legendary guitarist.  We talk about the new release, The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Los Angeles Forum, April 26, 1969, a tour de force of the Experience’s live

Dec 15, 2022 • 19:55

Echoes Podcast: Ricky Kej & David Vito Gregoli

Echoes Podcast: Ricky Kej & David Vito Gregoli

World Fusionists Ricky Kej & David Vito Gregorio: The Echoes Podcast American multi-instrumentalist David Vito Gregoli and Indian producer and keyboard player Ricky Kej take us on the journey of their album, Wild Monsoon. It’s an east-west fusion of electronics and Indian music that turns into a global fusion where shredding guitars meet Taiko drums, tabla and electronics. David Vito Gregoli and Ricky Kej talking about breaking down walls in the Echoes Podcast.

Dec 8, 2022 • 15:16

Echoes Podcast: Sheila Chandra and Monsoon

Echoes Podcast: Sheila Chandra and Monsoon

Sheila Chandra's Global Vocal Fusion: Monsoon at 40: The Echoes Podcast Sheila Chandra is now a heralded singer lauded for her unique vocal style and global fusion heard on many albums including her ground-breaking trilogy on Real World Records: Weaving My Ancestors Voices, The Zen Kiss and Bonecronedrone. But that all began 40 Years ago with the group Monsoon featuring Sheila on vocals. They had a massive hit in England with the song “Ever So Lonely” and now, their debut and only album Third Ey

Dec 1, 2022 • 17:35

Echoes Podcast: The Black Angels Interview

Echoes Podcast: The Black Angels Interview

Psychedelic Dreams in Dystopia: The Black Angels Echoes Interview in Echoes Podcast Black Angels descend on the next Echoes. The Black Angels are a psychedelic band out of Austin Texas, who sound like they mainlined the Nuggets collection of 60s garage rock from the first Psychedelic Era. But there’s more than hallucinogens to this long-lived band who tackle political and social themes amidst a delirious onslaught of feedback, fuzztone and reverb. John Diliberto drops a tab with Alex Maas and Ch

Nov 17, 2022 • 17:37

Echoes Podcast: RIP Low Roar’s Ryan Karaziya

Echoes Podcast: RIP Low Roar’s Ryan Karaziya

Echoes Podcast: We remember Low Roar's Ryan KaraziyaRyan Karaziya of Low Roar Live on Echoes 2014 On the Echoes Podcast, we go back to a couple of Echoes features that ran in 2011 and 2014.  Both were with the group, Low Roar, whose founder and principal creator, Ryan Karaziya, left the planet on October 29th. I was saddened to hear that Ryan had left us. He was only 40 years old. Ryan was one of the founders of The Auydrye Sessions, an alternative rock band from San Francisco.  But he moved to

Nov 10, 2022 • 18:58

Echoes Podcast: Delay Tactics Interview

Echoes Podcast: Delay Tactics Interview

Delay Tactics Return: The Echoes Interview The progressive rock band Delay Tactics returns after 38 years with three of the original members: Carl Weingarten, Walter Whitney and David Udell. They talk about their new album, Elements of Surprise and the influence of space age bachelor pad music, Giorgio Moroder, Fripp & Eno and Tangerine Dream  with John Diliberto on Echoes from PRX. Hear our interview with Carl Weingarten from 2014 Read our CD of the Month Review of Carl Weingarten’s Ember Days

Oct 27, 2022 • 13:48

Echoes Podcast: Rebecca Pidgeon Interview

Echoes Podcast: Rebecca Pidgeon Interview

Rebecca Pidgeon's Yoga Journey: The Echoes InterviewJohn Diliberto and Rebecca Pidgeon Rebecca Pidgeon may be best known as an actress from films like Homicide, The Spanish Prisoner, and State and Main. But she’s also released a string of really good solo albums. However, her latest is a departure. Inspired by her yoga practice she explores themes of the mind, consciousness and chakras. It’s called Parts of Speech, Pieces of Sound. It’s a beautiful album that taps Beatlesque psychedelia and sing

Oct 20, 2022 • 15:40

Echoes Podcast: Moog Biographer Albert Glinsky

Echoes Podcast: Moog Biographer Albert Glinsky

Bob Moog's Electronic Dream-The Story of the Moog Synthesizer Author and composer Albert Glinsky talks about his book, Switched-On, Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution. It’s a deep dive into the inventor who changed the face of modern music with the Moog Synthesizer and Mini-Moog. From avant-garde obscurity to Switched-On Bach, to the popular music mainstream, we hear the tale of this icon of modern instrument-making. See a playlist of music used in the Podcast feature.

Oct 13, 2022 • 18:04

Echoes Podcast: Daniel Lanois Interview

Echoes Podcast: Daniel Lanois Interview

Daniel Lanois-Past, Present, Piano: The Echoes InterviewJohn Diliberto and Daniel Lanois Daniel Lanois is the famed producer of U2 and collaborator with Brian Eno. He’s a a musician who is usually found behind an acoustic, electric and pedal steel guitars or a mixing console. But he has created an album of ambient piano works called Player, Piano. It will take you back to the piano ruminations of Harold Budd, who Lanois produced. We talk past, present and piano.

Sep 29, 2022 • 17:01

Echoes Podcast: Airport People Interview

Echoes Podcast: Airport People Interview

The Ambient Waiting Lounge of Airport People: The Echoes Interview in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, we talk with Airport People. That’s not the many travelers suffering with airline delays, but ambient chamber music artist Leon Todd Johnson. He’s released an album of creaky piano centered compositions called From Nine Mornings. But he’s also a child of the Civil Rights Movement. John Diliberto talks in the waiting lounge with Airport People on Echoes.

Sep 15, 2022 • 17:42

Echoes Podcast: Lumenette Interview

Echoes Podcast: Lumenette Interview

Lumenette's Songs of Despair, the Spirit and Sex in Space: The Echoes Interview Singer Christine Byrd has emerged out of the Christian music scene and backing vocals for the band Hammock to forge her music of liberation, loss and atonement as Lumenette. Each song on her debut, All Around My Head taps into the emotional waveforms of Christine Byrd. She composed the album over the last several years, most of it on her own, working out arrangements in Garage Band, layering her voice and putting

Aug 25, 2022 • 16:21

Echoes Podcast: The Otyken Interview

Echoes Podcast: The Otyken Interview

Echoes Podcast: Otyken's Siberian Groove Experience the Siberian sound of Otyken. They are marrying a tribal sound of the native Chulym people with modern production and the ferocious voice of Azyan. We talked to them from their studio in Siberia where Azyan and Svengali Andrei Mendonos talk about horsehead fiddles, Jaw harps and the primal voice of Azyan. Their latest full-length album is Kykakacha and they’ve just put out a new single, “Legend.” Bundle up with Otyken on Echoes from PRX.

Aug 18, 2022 • 15:56

Echoes Podcast: Toneranger’s Cowboy Electronics

Echoes Podcast: Toneranger’s Cowboy Electronics

Tone Ranger Giddy-ups Into Ambient Country Space in Echoes Podcast  Hit the trail with Tone Ranger. That’s the moniker of Alex Simon who has been immersing himself in country gone psychedelic sounds for a long time. Now he’s taken influences from the desert southwest, soundtracks, country music, electronic music and more, creating desert southwest landscapes merging electronics with guitar and pedal steel guitar and more. And then there’s spaghetti western film composer, Ennio Morricone. Tone R

Aug 11, 2022 • 16:28

Echoes Podcast: Pink Floyd 55th-Klaus Schulze 75th

Echoes Podcast: Pink Floyd 55th-Klaus Schulze 75th

Pink Floyd's Piper at the Gates of Dawn turns 55 and Electronic Legend Klaus Schulze Would've been 75 Today, August 4th is something of an auspicious date. This was the day, 55 years ago, that Pink Floyd released their debut album, Piper at the Gates of Dawn. And 20 years before that on August 4, 1947, electronic Legend Klaus Schulze was born. So I thought we’d take a flashback to our interview with Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason and our Mini-documentary on Klaus Schulze who left the planet in April 26

Aug 4, 2022 • 35:47

Echoes Podcast: Steve Tibbetts Interview

Echoes Podcast: Steve Tibbetts Interview

Steve Tibbetts's Hellbound Sound: The Echoes Podcast We ride a Hellbound Train with Steve Tibbetts. Among my friends and many musicians, Steve Tibbetts has been a legend since his second album, YR came out in 1980. And his first release was really good too. He’s released twelve albums in the last 40 years, eight of them on ECM Records. Each one has been a journey of the most unique world fusion including using Balinese percussion and rhythms. Steve Tibbetts: The double drumming style of Balinese

Jul 28, 2022 • 19:12

Echoes Podcast: Animalweapon Interview

Echoes Podcast: Animalweapon Interview

Echoes Podcast: Animalweapon's Electronic Songs of Love, Depression and Constraints Animalweapon sounds like it could be either the name of a heavy metal band or the moniker of music comedy troupe. But no. It’s the stage name for Patrick Cortes who brings us a melancholy sound confronting depression and shattered relations on his latest album, Set of Constraints. Patrick Cortes:. I had always known that I had been depressed, but I didn’t realize how bad it was until later last year. I was like,

Jul 21, 2022 • 16:21

Echoes Podcast: Zola Jesus Interview

Echoes Podcast: Zola Jesus Interview

Zola Jesus Fends Off the Arkhons: The Echoes Interview When you hear a name like Zola Jesus you think of something either sanctified or blasphemous. In the case of singer Nika Danilova, who uses Zola Jesus as her stage name, it’s definitely on the sanctified side, though not necessarily religious. On her new album, she tackles Arkhons. Zola Jesus: Arkhons which is a Gnostic term. The Arkhons are these malevolent forces in Gnostic Christianity that they think control humankind in a nefarious way.

Jul 14, 2022 • 17:44

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