PRX: Echoes Interview Podcast

Trentemøller's Memories & Vonavi in the Ukraine War Zone: The Echoes Podcast Trentemøller & John Diliberto Trentemøller’s Electronic Memories and Vonavi’s Notes from the War Zone in the Echoes Podcast. Trentemøller is a Danish electronic musician who started out on the dance floor. But now he’s creating a more introspective music drawing upon his memories as well as his recen...

Chieli Minucci's Meditative Moods in the Echoes Podcast This week in the Echoes Podcast, a guitarist who came to renown in the later days of fusion,  Chieli Minucci . He is the founding member of the group Special EFX who recorded a string of albums on the GRP label as well as others. He also has a solo career and does soundtracks including scoring the long-running soap opera, Guiding Light . He&#...

Brian Dunning, Irish Flautist for Nightnoise and Jeff Johnson Remembered. We remember Brian Dunning . The brilliant flute player with Nightnoise, Puck Fair and numerous collaborations with Jeff Johnson. Many of the musicians you hear on Echoes are our favorites, but only a few of them are friends.  Brian Dunning was one of those.  He was an extraordinary flute player who breathed melody out of eve...

Sound Resounds at Big Ears Festival 2022 in Echoes Podcast Every year I look forward to the Big Ears Festival . It’s a massive event in Knoxville, Tennessee, that covers all kinds of music, most of it on the bleeding edge. The Festival began in 2009 and  every year since 2015 I’ve featured a preview of the show, interviewing founder Ashley Capps . I produced a preview in 2020, but ulti...

Brigitte Bardini - Psychedelic Depression Dreams in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast , we talk with Australian singer-songwriter Brigitte Bardini . She dropped out of her psychology major when she decided to become a musician. Her impressive debut, Stellar Lights , was an Echoes Top 30 album of 2021 . She talks about abandoned organs, psychedelic dreams and depression. We hear the story of thi...

Tori Amos - Personal Turmoil and Global Strife: The Echoes Podcast Hear a  sound portrait of singer-songwriter Tori Amo s. She talks about her pandemic brewed album, Ocean to Ocean . Isolated in Cornwall, England where she’s been living, she struggles with grief and the turmoil of the world and applies them through songs of driving intensity like the playful “Spies,” a lullaby fo...

Electronic Bliss-A Journey From The Past To The Future At The Electronic Music Education and Preservation Project in Echoes Podcast Synthesizer junkies enter paradise when we visit the Electronic Music Education and Preservation Project , or EMEAPP . It houses what must be one of the largest collections of electronic music instruments in the world, including many played by world famous artists. Dr...

Marconi Union Finds the Groove in the Echoes Podcast We hear from a true 21 st century band when we talk to Marconi Union . The British electronic trio has a new album called Signals that finds them tapping a more rhythmic, drum-driven sound, even though there are no drums. They talk about influences from 60s psychedelia, “but not the prissy stuff” and 70s German rock, and try to hide...

Echoes Podcast: Led Zeppelin - The Bob Spitz Biography: The Echoes Interview It’s a Whole Lotta Love for Led Zeppelin on Echoes when we talk with Bob Spitz , author of Led Zeppelin: The Biography . He takes us from poverty to Kashmir, drugs to death and heavy metal to heaven. Bob Spitz: Look, they were the kings of bad behavior on the road.  They brought bad behavior into the spotlight in ro...

Peter Gregson's 21st Century Orchestra: The Echoes Podcast Peter Gregson is a classically-trained cellist.  He’s recorded with orchestras as well as composers Max Richter and the late- Jóhann Jóhannsson . He’s also composed music for film and video games including, Ammonite . He goes into ambient chamber music on his recording Patina . It mixes synthesizers and electronic processing an...

Rena Jones's Mythology Through Music: The Echoes Interview Rena Jones is a polymath. She plays violin, cello and synthesizers and immerses her music in the imagery of nature and philosophy. Her new album is Allegories . We talk with Rena Jones and her accomplice on the album, world music artist  Jeff Thomas Potts about the global grooves and hidden meanings on Echoes .

Echoes Podcast: Marissa Nadler's Unsolved Mystery & Pink Floyd's Meddle at 50 In the Echoes Podcast Marissa Nadler & Pink Floyd’s Meddle at 50 We all watched TV during pandemic isolation, but singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler got an album out of it. It’s called The Path of the Clouds and it’s inspired by the Unsolved Mysteries TV show. She turns these tales into personal metap...

Crowd-Sourced Creativity: Kevin Keller-The Echoes Podcast Ambient Chamber music composer Kevin Keller took the RPM Challenge to record an album in one month. To do it, he enlisted his fans, running a daily blog where he considered their suggestions to create his music. The results are his new album, Shimmer , which, despite all the input, is distinctly Keven Keller. We talk to Kevin Keller about c...

Otherworld Music-Stephan Micus: in Echoes Podcast Before there was a “world music” genre, there was Stephan Micus , playing instruments from Afghanistan to India to Indonesia.  However, ever since his first album, Archaic Concerts , in 1976, the German composer was never making world music, but other-worldly music.  He plays his ethnic instruments in non-traditional ways, multi-trackin...

Jade Warrior-World Fusion Pioneers 50th: The Echoes Interview. It’s the 50 th Anniversary of the greatest unsung band of Progressive Rock, Jade Warrior . Releasing their eponymous debut in 1971, they went on to create a quartet of the most brilliant world fusion albums. Before Peter Gabriel moved from drum machines to Senegalese drummers, and when Andreas Vollenweider was still doing music for poe...

Loreena McKennitt's The Visit Re-visited in the Echoes Podcast It was 30 years ago that Loreena McKennitt released her breakthrough album, The Visit . Today we talk to this influential artist who turned Celtic music into world fusion while telling epic tales of “The Lady of Shallott” and “All Souls Night.” The album took the burgeoning Celtic craze of the 80s and launched i...

Will Ackerman, Jeff Oster & Tom Eaton: The Echoes Interview Clockwise from top Left: Will Ackerman, John Diliberto, Tom Eaton, Jeff Oster Guitarist Will Ackerman , founder of Windham Hill Records, horn player Jeff Oster and multi-instrumentalist Tom Eaton have gotten together on an album that might remind you of the halcyon days of Windham Hill.  It’s called Brothers , reflecting their longt...

Philosophical Electronics: Chronotope Project in Echoes Podcast Jeffrey Ericson Allen talks about his spacious ambient music under the name Chronotope Project .  A cellist who has added electronics to his work, he tends toward the mystical and cosmic.  His latest album, Gnosis is the Echoes CD of the Month for September. . Allen uses ambient soundscapes to explore themes from Greek Philosophy to t...

Jomoro's Percussion Dreams: The Echoes Interview Mauro Refosco – John Diliberto – Joey Waronker -Zoom It’s a meeting of electronic and acoustic percussion and ethereal moods with Jomoro . This is the project of percussionists Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco with guest artists including Sharon Van Etten and Lucious . Veterans of artists like David Byrne , Red Hot Chili Peppers , Atoms f...

Robot Koch: From Metal to Meditation: The Echoes Podcast German Composer Robot Koch has gone from death metal to deep ambient chamber music in his career. We follow the course of this inventive artist up through his latest dive into deep ambient music. We’ll talk about his most recent album under his name, the ambient chamber sound of The Next Billion Years , his collaboration with violinist...

Hybrid and George Winston, the 30th Icon in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast we go to the opposite ends of the Echoes spectrum. We’ll hear from the electronica duo, Hybrid and acoustic pianist George Winston, the 30th Icon of Echoes. Hybrid takes us into the sometimes-dark world of their new album, Black Halo . Formed at the turn of the millennium, the husband-and-wife duo of Charlotte a...

The World of Kitaro, 29th Icon of Echoes in the Echoes Podcast From the top of Mt. Fuji, the 29 th Icon of Echoes, Kitaro, arrives. The Japanese electronic composer has created a stream of otherworldly sounds since the late 1970s. We’ll hear a profile of this artist from his days in The Far East Family Band to his emergence as a solo artist and up through Kojiki and his long-lived career. Se...

Will Ackerman-28th Icon of Echoes and Jon Hassell Remembered. It’s hard to separate the guitarist Will Ackerman from the record label he founded, Windham Hill Records . We’ll hear a profile of this influential artist who released his first album, In Search of the Turtle’s Navel in 1976.  We’ll hear about the creation of Windham Hill, his influential approach to the guitar a...

Echoes Podcast: Sunroof with Daniel Miller & Gareth Jones and Hammock, the 27th Icons of Echoes. Daniel Miller ignited electronic pop with The Normal and launched the careers of Depeche Mode who were produced by Gareth Jones . There might not be electronic pop without them.  But when they get together in a new electronic project called Sunroof,  they explore the outer edges of electronic music...

The Mastelotto's Romantic Guide to King Crimson in Echoes Podcast: The Echoes Interview The Mastelottos,  is the couple of King Crimson drummer Pat Mastelotto and his wife, singer Deborah . They have an album with what might seem an oxymoronic title, A Romantic’s Guide to King Crimson . King Crimson? Romantic? But there’s more to than that as they transform music from this iconic and h...