PRX: Echoes Interview Podcast

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...

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 nam...

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 docu...

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...

A Conversation with Jeff Oster, Vin Downes & Tom Eaton About Seven Conversations: The Echoes Podcast In 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...

The Transcendence of Trio Mediaeval: The Echoes Podcast Trio 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 ,...

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...

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...

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...

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....

A Journey in Ambient Classical Music with Roger Eno: The Echoes Podcast John 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, Deut...

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 an...

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-Germa...

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 f...

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...

The 50th anniversary of Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra and The Tangerine Dream Documentary In the Echoes Podcast, head into psychedelic space on the 50 th 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 ,...

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 12 th 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 art...

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 wit...

Tim Story, Michael Rother, Roedelius and Neu!: The Echoes Interviews Tim 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 cham...

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...

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 tw...

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...

Hans Christian Communes with the Music and Spirit of Cellist David Darling: The Echoes Podcast David 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 collabora...

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....

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 experi...