PRX: Echoes Interview Podcast

Shpongle's Simon Posford and Mark Dwane in Echoes Podcast It’s another Electronic Echoes Podcast Including Interviews with Shpongle’s Simon Posford and Guitar-Synthesist Mark Dwane We get Shpongled in the Echoes Podcast when Simon Posford, one-half of the legendary psychedelic electronic band Shpongle, talks about his new solo album Flux and Contemplation, Portrait of an Artist in Isol...

Echoes Podcast: Electronic Artist Dave Bessell of Node and Reality Engine In the Echoes Podcast, Dave Bessell.  Dave Bessell is an electronic musician from England who is probably one of the few Doctors of Music we play on the show. He’s done session work on albums by Killing Joke and Suede , is a member of the occasional electronic group, Node with producer Flood , collaborates with Greek electro...

Echoes Podcast: Interviews with Electronic Artists Ben Blackett & Jim Ottaway Its an all-electronic Echoes Podcast with interviews featuring Ben Blackett and Jim Ottaway. From 1990s grunge rock engineer in Seattle to electronic soundscapes composer, Ben Blackett has had a long music career. He plugs in computers instead of guitars and creates dance floor trances and melodic contemplations.  His la...

Echoes Podcast: YPPAH's Psychedelic Dance: The Echoes Interview YPPAH is happy spelled backwards and it’s the name of an ambiently inclined post rock group headed up by Joe Corrales .  He’s gone through heavy metal, drum and bass, hip-hop and Turkish psychedelic music to arrive at a joyful sound in the orbit of artists like Tycho , The Album Leaf and Explosions in the Sky.  Earlier this year they...

The Metamorphosis of Llynks in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast , an interview with Llynks . She graduated from the  Berklee School of Music , tried working as a model, started a music career with her birth name, Sara Kendall , then metamorphosed into Llynks, a dark, soul-revealing electronic pop project. She’s just released her debut album, Become the Root . Kendall talks about modeling...

Echoes Podcast: The Moby Interview Moby talks about his presciently timely new album , All Visible Objects . Written mostly in 2019, its themes of revolution, isolation and contemplation seem to fit right in with these pandemic and protesting times. All Visible Objects harkens back to his dance and DJ days in the 1990s and also goes in more introspective, forlorn directions. Hear Moby’s 2016...

Four Albums from The Best of Echoes 2020, So Far by Austra, YPPAH, Grimes and Darshan Ambient This past week we released The Best of Echoes So Far list, pausing at the midway point of an insane year to contemplate some of the music that has come out in the first six months. We picked 25 of our favorite albums. On this week’s Echoes Podcast , I want to pull out a few releases on the list and...

Tangerine Dream-50 Years of Electronic Meditations: The Echoes Documentary In the Echoes Podcast, the Tangerine Dream Documentary 50 years ago Tangerine Dream began recording their electronic music in what was then West Berlin.  Founded by Edgar Froese, Tangerine Dream has epitomized the electronic age of music, recording over 150 albums of synthesized compositions.  Their film soundtracks include...

Taimane's Ukulele Fury in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcas t, it’s a new generation of Ukulele player when we talk with Taimane . She’s a Hawaiian musician who studied with Jake Shimabukuro and is creating her own ukulele fusion that takes the instrument out of the luau and into the world on albums like Elemental and We Are Made of Stars .. Taimane: I grew up living in Hawaii and that’s all tha...

Emancipator's Electronic Folk and Jade Warrior-World Fusion Innovators in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast Emancipator and Jade Warrior Emancipator is an electronic musician who mixes synthesizers, sampled sounds and folk instruments into a hallucinatory sound. John Diliberto talks to Emancipator’s Douglas Appling about his father who made dulcimers and spun Orbital and how that shaped his uni...

Michael Whalen's Syntheszier Fantasy: The Echoes Podcast Interview In the Echoes Podcas t, Composer Michael Whalen talks about his April CD of the Month, Sacred Spaces . It’s a return for Whalen to his progressive rock roots as he turns a classical composition into a synthesized fantasy. Sacred Spaces is an electronic symphony full of strikingly original timbres and sounds. An overhead photo of hi...

Echoes Podcast: Kevin Braheny Fortune Talks to the Spirits In the Echoes Podcast it’s the return of a New Age pioneer when we talk with Kevin Braheny Fortune . He went 22 years without a new album, but now he has four releases of ambient music including his Dreamwalker Meditation Music trilogy. In the 1980s his name was mentioned alongside Steve Roach , Robert Rich , Michael Stearns and Rich...

Air's Nicolas Godin and Naneum in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast Air’s Nicolas Godin and Naneum The French Band AIR was one of the seminal electronic pop groups of the 1990s and oughts. They’ve gone dormant, but founding member Nicolas Godin has a new solo album out, Concrete and Glass, that began as an architectural art project.  john Diliberto Talks to Godin while in quarantine in hi...

Poliça and Nicholas Gunn in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast we talk to singer Channy Leaneagh of Poliça   and electronic musician Nicholas Gunn . Channy Leaneagh fell off a roof and broke her back, but that didn’t stop her from recording a great album with her group, Poliça   . John Diliberto talks to Poliça’s Channy Leaneagh about her existential songs on the album, When We Stay Alive...

Ambient Chamber Music with AVAWaves and Blue Landscapes in Echoes Podcast. The Breadth of Ambient Chamber Music in the Echoes Podcast with Blue Landscapes  and  AVAWaves. Ambient Chamber Music is a meeting of classical music and ambient music and the duos of AVAWaves and Blue Landscapes are approaching it from very different directions.  Blue Landscapes , is the duo of latin and jazz flutist Damja...

Kitaro & Tigerforest's Gunnar Spardel in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast Two Generations of Electronic Artists: Tigerforest’s Gunnar Spardel & Kitaro From electronic space to ambient chamber music, we talk to Gunnar Spardel, who composes somber and serene chamber music under his own name and upbeat, progressive electronic music under the guise of Tigerforest . His latest album as Ti...

Poppy Ackroyd's Ne0-Classical Moods in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, English composer Poppy Ackroyd.  Her album, Resolve was an Echoes CD of the Mont h two years ago. It’s finally out in the US. John Diliberto catches up with Poppy Ackroyd who talks about an approach to classical composition informed by punk rock and Radiohead . Poppy Ackroyd: I’m classically trained, but I think when I wa...

Eastern Fusion Past and future with Hans Christian and Ravi Shankar in Echoes Podcast. The Echoes Podcast explores Indian Fusion Past and Future with cellist Hans Christian and the 100th Birthday of Ravi Shankar. Cellist Hans Christian has been a fixture on Echoes for all its 30 years, both as a solo artist and with the duo, Rasa.    His music has ranged from electronic to solo cello to Hindi chan...

Ukulele Giant Jake Shimabukuro Goes Beyond in the Echoes Podcast. In the Echoes Podcast, Jake Shimabukuro, the virtuoso Hawaiian ukulele player, talks about revolutionizing an instrument often seen as a novelty into a tool of pyrotechnic fury and ambient expanses. His new album, The Jake Shimabukuro Trio is a stylistic shift into more contemplative, ambient terrain that includes a cover of a Pink...

Alex Somers and Gentle Giant in Echoes Podcast. ALEX SOMERS In the Echoes Podcast this week, Alex Somers and Gentle Giant. Alex Somers is a name you hear on the fringes. He’s produced people like singer Briana Marella and Julianna Barwick .  He worked on the last two albums from Icelandic Icons, Sigur Ros and then formed a duo with Jonsi from that band. Now he’s in Hollywood scoring major films li...

Lane 8's Chilled EDM & Ralph Towners 80th Birthday We talk to Daniel Goldstein, better known as the electronic artist, Lane 8 . He makes a chilled brand of EDM and recently released his album, Brightest Lights with guest vocalists that include Polica and Artic Lights . He calls his sound “dreamy back-rub house music” and bands cameras, including cell-phone cameras, at his concerts. Daniel Goldstei...

Agnes Obel Interview in Echoes Podcast: Myopic Beauty In the Echoes Podcast , Danish singer Agnes Obel.   She creates a haunting ambient chamber pop music and has  been a big part of the show since her 2010 debut, Philharmonics , an Echoes CD of the Month, as was her last album, Citizen of Glass .  She puts out a great album about every 3 years and her new one follows suit. It’s called Myopia . It...

Big Ears Festival 2020 Preview and Jon Christensen Remembered this Week in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, we talk to Ashley Capps about his Big Ears 2020 Festival .  Then we remember drummer Jon Christensen , the ECM house drummer. The Big Ears Music Festival 2020 is upon us. We talk to founder Ashley Capps as well as Kronos and The Necks about this year’s collection of over 100 artists, wh...

Peter Kater's Hard Road to New Age Bliss & Lyle Mays Remembered Peter Kater & Lyle Mays We talk with 2020 Grammy winning pianist Peter Kater and we remember Lyle Mays of the Pat Metheny Group. In the Echoes Podcast , pianist Peter Kater.  When a musician wins a Grammy award, you often don’t know what they went through to get there. Take the case pianist Peter Kater, who took home this years gr...

Echoes Podcast: David Helpling's Oceanic Ambience: An Interview In the Echoes Podcast , guitarist David Helpling takes us into the runic and oceanic influences of his January CD of the Month , Rune . Helpling is a southern California musician who has been a favorite on the show for about 25 years. He’s recorded all his albums on the Spotted Peccary label, noted for their deep ambient music. His th...