PRX: Echoes Interview Podcast

All India Radio's Space Rock for the Chill Crowd in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, All India Radio talks about his latest missive from Australia, Eternal , opens with a robot voice giving the exhortation, “Let’s Dance.” But this ain’t no party.  It’s a space music opus influenced by Pink Floyd and early electronic music. All India Radio’s Martin Kennedy use’s samples from a bad...

Steve Roach's Electronic Dig in the Echoes Podcast. In the Echoes Podcast we take a deep dive into the world of Steve Roach . The prolific electronic artist has been part of Echoes for all of its 30 years and more. We’ve chronicled his electronic evolution more than just about anyone. Steve released several albums in 2019 including Bloom Ascension and Trance Archeology . After several years...

Barrett Martin's Global Percussion and Darshan Ambient in Memoriam in Echoes Podcast. In the Echoes Podcast, Barrett Martin takes us on a Global percussion Trek and we Remember Darshan Ambient. First we talk to multi-instrumentalist, world fusionist, author, Zen monk and former drummer with Screaming Trees , Barrett Martin . He’s created a world fusion sound with his group in which he specializes...

Fink's Dream Blues In the Echoes Podcast we talk with Fink . He’s a British electronic musician turned ambient singer-songwriter, who creates deep ruminative songs sung in his mellifluous tenor.  He talks about his latest album, Bloom Innocent and finds links between blues, electronica and New Orleans.

The Best of Echoes 2019-A Select View with John Diliberto Last week we counted down The Best of Echoes 2019 , a list of our 25 favorite album. Now, Echoes’ John Diliberto takes a stroll through that list, giving some context and commentary and highlighting some of the lesser known recordings and artists on the album including Michael Gulezian , Theodore , Mark Dwane , Spatialize , Hugar , Ri...

Vonavi's Ukrainian Ambiences in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast we travel to Ukraine to talk with Andrei Ivanov , who records as Vonavi . Ukraine is something of a backwater when it comes to any international music scene, but Vonavi has found a way out, through the internet.  This young electronic composer has just released his impressive debut album, Reflections . He talks to us from his Ukr...

Future Forward with Neuland and a Flashback 50 with Fairport Convention in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast we talk with Neuland and take a Flashback 50 to Fairport Convention’s Liege and Lief . Neuland is the name of a project featuring two former members of Tangerine Dream , Peter Baumann and Paul Haslinger . Baumann was a member of the classic edition of the dream, appearing on albums...

Rise Ascends from Talitha Rise in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast , Rise emerges from the ashes of Talitha Rise . In 2018 our number one album of the year was An Abandoned Orchid House by Talitha Rise. We interviewed Jo Beth Young and Martyn Barker who made up that group. But now, we’ve gotten a new album by Young, and it’s released just under the name of Rise. It’s called Strangers and that...

We Celebrate Wendy Carlos' 80th Year in Echoes Podcast We look back at Wendy Carlos on 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 mos...

In Echoes Podcast Voxfire Brings Medieval Chants to the 21st Century In the Echoes Podcast, we get all Medieval on you. Remember when Gothic chant was all the rage in the 1990s? Albums featuring Benedictine Monks and Abbess Hildegard von Bingen hymns were heard in all kinds of configurations by artists, like Sequentia , Richard Souther , Vox and Enigma . A band called Voxfire continues that tradit...

Oboist Jill Haley's Nature Soundscape in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, we go out to the park with oboist and composer Jill Haley . Her parks have names like Yellowstone , Glacier , Zion, and Badlands . She takes up residence in National Parks, and composes music inspired by the landscapes and her photographs. Haley has played on numerous Will Ackerman productions and is a founding member o...

Vampires and Murder with Bat for Lashe's Natasha Khan in Echoes Podcast. In the Echoes Podcast , it’s vampires and dangerous love when we talk with Natasha Khan of Bat for Lashes . She’s been making dreamy, electronically draped moody songs since her 2006 debut, Fur and Gold . The English singer moved from England to LA a few years ago, but her music is still pretty moody and Gothic. On her new al...

Hugar, King Crimson and Erik Scott in Echoes Podcast. It’s a 3-Part Echoes Podcast with Hugar, King Crimson’s 50th and a Remembrance of Erik Scott First we enter the chill of Iceland for an interview with Hugar . The ambient chamber music duo recently released their second album Varða . It was the Echoes CD of the Month in September. It’s music inspired by the landscapes of Iceland. Th...

Tycho Interview and Flashback 50 to Pentangle's Basket of Light in Echoes Podcast. Tycho & Pentangle In the Echoes Podcast this week: An interview with Tycho and a  Flashback 50   to Pentangle’s Basket of Light First we go inside the music of Tycho with Scott Hansen and singer Saint Sinner . For most of the last two decades there has been a strain of rock music that didn’t really rock ou...

Echoes Podcast Echoes John Diliberto and Jeff Towne Talk 30 Years of Echoes.   David Sylvian and John Diliberto circa 1992 in Echoes basement studio. In the Echoes Podcast , John Diliberto and Jeff Towne cast back through 30 years of incredible music, live performances, great interviews and some 7800 Echoes shows. Taking questions from listeners and musicians John and Jeff talk about the orig...

Rob Simonsen's Reveries: A Film Composer's Refuge in the Echoes Podcast Rob Simonsen is a veteran film composer who’s movies include Nerve , Love, Simon and  dozens of others. This year alone he’s scored The Friend , Fast Color and Captive State . Somehow, he found time to make his first solo recording, Reveries . He creates a nostalgic ambient chamber music album, seen through the fog of hi...

Flashback 50 with East of Eden and Hossam Ramzy Remembered in Echoes Podcast East of Eden circa 1969 In the Echoes Podcast, a Flashback 50 to East of Eden’s Mercator Projected and we remember Hossam Ramzy . We begin with a Flashback 50 with the 1969 debut by East of Eden , Mercator Projected . This seminal release was the blueprint that groups like King Crimson used at the dawn of progressiv...

Azam Ali of Vas & Niyaz in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast , Iranian singer Azam Ali talks electronics and her all -English album, Phantoms.  Azam’s is a voice that launched a dozen love affairs. She was the sound of the world fusion group, Vas and then the Persian fusion band, Niyaz . Her intoxicating, sensual voice is heard in dozens of films including Thor: The Dark World , 300 , Joh...

The Cosmogony of Beacon in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast , Beacon shines. Beacon is the electro-pop group who mix R&B and mysticism in their expansive electronic sound. This duo of Thomas Mullarney III and Jacob Gosset t  talk about the influence of religion and the writings and art of Walter Russell, a 20 th century renaissance man who created his own Cosmogony, on their album, Gravity...

Iranian singer Azam Ali is a voice that launched a dozen love affairs. She was the sound of the world fusion group, Vas and then the Persian fusion band, Niyaz . Her intoxicating, sensual voice is heard in dozens of films including Thor: The Dark World , 300 , John Carter and Priest .  She takes her love of modern electronic music to create her new album, Phantoms , her first with all-English lyri...

The Art of Electric Improvisation with John Swana, Tim Motzer & Doug Hirlinger in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast , John Diliberto talks about the art of improvisation with three veteran musicians, trumpeter John Swana , guitarist Tim Motzer and percussionist Doug Hirlinger . They are denizens of the avant-garde and new music scenes in Philadelphia and New York having played with David Sylvia...

Mary Lattimore's Ambient Harp in Echoes Podcast Mary Lattimore (Pic: Jeff Towne) In the Echoes Podcast , Mary Lattimore , a diva of new music harp. She’s performed with Harold Budd , Kurt Vile , Sharon Van Etten , Thurston Moore and dozens of others with her electric harp. On her album, Hundreds of Days , she manipulates her instrument with electronics, distorting the sound and looping to create a...

Synth-Pop Artist Eve Maret Plugs into the Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast , a wonderful musician named Eve Maret who is completely plugged in. She recently released her debut album, No More Running , and fans of 70s German electronic music and 80s New Wave will find a lot of resonance in there. We talk about that as well as the politics of gender and electronics because Eve thinks there aren&...

Maps' James Chapman in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, we have Maps . James Chapman is half of the duo onDeadWaves but on his own, he records as Maps, merging electronics with Ennio Morricone grandeur and Beach Boys exultant harmonies.  His new album is Colours Reflect Time Loss . We  talk to James Chapman about childhood memories, creating an orchestra, and The Beach Boys.  Just follow the...

Heather Woods Broderick Interview in Echoes Podcast. In the Echoes Podcast , we talk to singer-songwriter Heather Woods Broderick . She’s backed up singers like Sharon Van Etten but on her own, she makes a personal and atmospheric music of peacefully contemplated turmoil articulated through the imagery of nature on the Oregon coast. Her album, Glider was a CD of the Month in 2015 and she finally h...