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The Echoes Podcast: Bluetech Takes Us to the Spacehop Bluetech’s album, Spacehop Chronicles 2 is the Echoes CD of the Month for October and in the Echoes Podcast , we have Bluetech himself, Evan Bartholomew , talking about this electronic journey into orbit that sits between space music and trip-hop, all meditating on the journey of Laika , the canine cosmonaut that died in space. Bluetech: For me...

Echoes Podcast: Marissa Nadler Attains Escape Velocity September’s CD of the Month was New Radiations by Marissa Nadler and in the Echoes Podcast we’ve got her talking about this album which is one of her most personal releases. Marissa Nadler: The whole record is really a heartbreak record. It kind of examines both sides through distance and time. And so New Radiations is really moving on in my h...

Echoes Podcast: 40 Years of Ancient Dreams with Patrick O'Hearn - The Echoes Interview We celebrate the 40 th anniversary of Patrick O’Hearn’s debut album, Ancient Dreams . Patrick O’Hearn has been one of the defining voices of modern electronic music. Until the rise of Yanni , he was one of the signature artists of the Private Music label. Since his debut album, Ancient Dreams in 1985, he’s conti...

Mixing It Up with Master Dub Mixer - Adrian Sherwood: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast , a legend of dub on the next Echoes when we talk to producer Adrian Sherwood . Sherwood is a Dub Master. The English musician has been manipulating sound for over 5 decades, working with masters of the Jamaican dub style like Lee “Scratch” Perry , and creating his own music in projects that...

Nicholas Gunn Goes Trance: The Echoes Interview Our August CD of the Month was the album, 30 by Nicholas Gunn. In the Echoes Podcast, I’ve got him talking about it. Nick has been a part of Echoes since his self-released debut album, Afternoon in Sedona in 1993, but around 2012, he changed, giving his flute a rest and plugged into software synths and computer generated music for the dance floor. Ni...

Klaus Schulze-An Icon of Electronic Music in Echoes Podcast The 50th Anniversary of Timewind , the 1975 album by Klaus Schulze is coming up on August 25. In the Echoes Podcast hear a documentary on this legendary artist who helped launch a new genre not just in electronic music, but music period. Klaus is one of the Icons of Echoes . He sadly left the planet in 2022.   Before Techno, Electronica,...

Echoes Podcast: Electric Chamber Music on Edge with AVAWAVES In the Echoes Podcast , AVAWAVES talk about their new album, Heartbeat . AVAWAVES is the British electric chamber music duo of violinist Anna Phoebe and keyboardist Aisling Brouwer . Their fusion of electronic and music and compositional verve can be heard on their soundtrack to Apple TV series, The Buccaneers and their new album, Heartb...

Trauma, Medicine, Pain and Beauty with Jessica Robbins of Course: The Echoes Podcast John Diliberto and Course’s Jessica Robbins In the Echoes Podcast , Ankylosing Spondylitis, a spinal disease causing immense pain. But Jessica Robbins , who records as Course , creates some beautiful music out of that pain on her album, Hue Mirror .  It’s an exploration of her years-long journey to fin...

Anoushka Shankar's Sitar Evolution: The Echoes Podcast Anoushka Shankar has released an impressive trilogy of EPs in the last year that take her sitar in different directions. Chapter I: Forever For Now ; Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before the Dawn ; and Chapter III: We Return to Light , find Shankar in 3 different settings: World Fusion, Ambient and Improvisation. She also has three different prod...

Fear, Loss and Sticking the Landing; Marconi Union: The Echoes Interview In the Echoes podcast , Marconi Union talk about their CD of the Month, The Fear of Never Landing .  The British electronic band has been providing ambient atmospheres and deep groove on the show for 20 years and they are still creating with their latest album, The Fear of Never Landing , Echoes June CD of the Month . After l...

The Hedonistic Hit Factory: Buzz Me In - Inside the Record Plant Studios with David Goggin and Martin Porter in Echoes Podcast. John Diliberto, David “Mr Bonzai” Goggin, Martin Porter I’ve got something different for you in this weeks Echoes Podcast. I’m going to talk with Martin Porter and David Goggin about their new book, Buzz Me In: Inside the Record Plant Studios .  They look at t...

Tape Loops and Life Loops-Terry Riley turns 90 Terry Riley , along with Philip Glass and Steve Reich , is among the holy trinity of minimalism. His compositions In C and A Rainbow in Curved Air are seminal works of that genre. He was creating tape loops works in the early 1960s, laying the foundation for over 50 years of looping artists. Without Terry Riley, there are no Fripp & Eno albums, am...

Dream Pop Streaming with aeseaes: The Echoes Podcast aeseaes in their studio for Echoes Interview In the Echoes Podcast , John Diliberto talks to aeseaes (pronounced A-C-S), the husband and wife duo who you may have caught sometime over the last 10 years streaming live performances on the Twitch Platform. We discovered them on their 2017 EP Six Songs and have been enchanted ever since, even when t...

David Helpling and Eric "The" Taylor Go Into the Dark: The Echoes Podcast John Diliberto, Eric “The” Taylor and David Helpling In the Echoes Podcast , David Helpling and Eric “the” Taylor talk about their new album, The Precious Dark which was the CD of the Month for May. David Helpling is a guitarist turned synthesizer architect with several solo albums and duo albums with Jon Jenkins...

Ambient Chamber Music Dream Pop: Ólafur Arnalds and Loreen - The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, a meeting of ambient classical and pure pop when I talk with Ólafur   Arnalds and Loreen . Ólafur Arnalds you know from his deeply atmospheric ambient chamber music. Loreen is a Swedish singer who is huge in Europe, where she has won the Eurovision Song Contest twice. They get together on an intr...

Michael Rother, Bob Holmes & Mary Lattimore in Big Ears Session Hear the second of John Diliberto’s two Big Ears Festival 2025 sessions in the Echoes Podcast . This one featured German guitarist Michael Rother from the influential bands Neu! and Harmonia .  He created one of the most distinct guitar sounds of the 70s and also deployed the classic motoric rhythm with Can’s Jaki Liebezeit on d...

Back to the Ancient Future: The Echoes Podcast If I wanted to play you an example of world fusion, the first group I would go to is Ancient Future . Not only are they the definition of the term, they actually coined it back in 1978. Matthew Montfort: Yeah. Yeah. I didn’t trademark the term or anything ’cause I wanted it to become a movement. It didn’t become as much of a movement...

Keith Jarrett Turns 80: Hear his Thoughts in Sound Keith Jarrett, Venezia, Teatro Malibran, 24/07/2001.  Photo: Robert Masotti Keith Jarrett is a true icon of modern music. The pianist came up through the jazz scene, playing with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis on signature recordings by both artists. He’s led several ensembles over the years with major jazz musicians including Charlie Haden , Jan G...

A Journey from Space Music to Ambient & Beyond with Steve Roach in Echoes Podcast John Diliberto – Steve Roach – Linda Kohanov at Big Ears Festival 2025 This year at the Big Ears Festival 2025 , John Diliberto moderated two panels with some of the leading musicians of our time. In today’s podcast, we’ll hear his session with Steve Roach and Linda Kohanov . Steve Roach is a semina...

Electronic History - Synergy at 50: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast we go back 50 years to a turning point in electronic music history.  That’s when the album, Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra by Synergy was released. It was a project by Larry Fast , and there were no guitars or drums on the album, just synthesizers creating epic, orchestral tracks that still resonate toda...

Days of Genius Past: Sasha's Da Vinci Genius - The Echoes Interview In the Echoes Podcast , we take another listen to 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...

A Global Music Journey with Joe Boyd: The Echoes Podcast Back n September of 2024, we brought you the broadcast version of our interview with Joe Boyd. It was was a deep, wide-ranging interview that was hard to condense into 15 minutes, so we also presented our entire conversation in the Echoes Podcast . Joe’s most recent book, And the Roots of Rhythm Remain – A Journey Through Global...

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 . Back in 2021, We talked to him about the ambient chamber music on his recording Patina , which mixed synthesize...

A Meeting of Electronic Generations with Ian Boddy & Harald Grosskopf in the Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast , It’s a meeting of electronic generations with Ian Boddy and Harald Grosskopf , drummer for Klaus Schulze and Ashra . Ian grew up traveling the spaceways of Ash Ra Tempe l, Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze . Harald Grosskopf was the drummer for Klaus Schulze and Ashra back then...

Mutantrumpet Creator Ben Neill Proposes an Age of Music Democratization: Echoes Podcast While the Echoes Podcast is on a break, hears a great one from last year with Ben Neill . If you’ve listened to Echoes over the last 30 years, you’ve heard the music of Ben Neill a lot. He plays an instrument called the mutantrumpet which has 3 trumpet bells, a trombone slide, two sets of valves and a lot of el...