PRX: Echoes Interview Podcast

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...

Krautrock Country with Immersion and SUSS: The Echoes Podcast The Echoes CD of the Month in March is going to be Nanocluster Volume 3 . by Immersion and Suss and today in the podcast, I’ve got an interview with them. Immersion is the duo of Colin Newman from the iconic new wave band Wire and Malka Spigel from the Israeli new wave band Minimal Compact. SUSS is the American Ambient Country group wit...

Electronic Explorer Steve Roach Turns 70. In 2019 Steve Roach was voted #2 of 30 Icons of Echoes for our 30 year anniversary. Five years later, he was still #2 for our 35th Anniversary and the 35 Icons of Echoes . For the 30th, we created a profile of Steve, and now that he is turning 70 on February 16, 2025,  I thought we’d take a look back at that feature. When we created Echoes, Steve Roa...

Amon Tobin's psychedelic Dreams: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast I have a lost interview when I talk to the bands Figueroa , Two Fingers and Only Child Tyrant . The only thing is, those aren’t bands, but the various recording personas o f Amon Tobin , the electronic composer who is pretty eclectic under his own name. His music has evolved, but at the core, he’s still doing what he did whe...

Explore the Big Ears Festival 2025 with founder Ashley Capps in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast we preview the Big Ears Festival 2025 taking place in Knoxville at the end of March. This is an enormous event with over a hundred artists all on the leading edge of whatever music genre they are in and at Big Ears, there are a lot of music genres, all in abundance. This year features more artists...

Days of Genius Past: Sasha's Da Vinci Genius - The Echoes Interview In the Echoes Podcast , 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 find the Renaissance music...

Remembering Tangerine Dream's Edgar Froese on the 10th Anniversary of his Departure with the Complete 1982 Interview in the Echoes Podcast. On this 10th anniversary of his passing, we remember Edgar Froese with this 1982 interview for the Totally Wired: Artists in Electronic Sound series. Tangerine Dream changed music. Period. There was nothing like them before their 1974 album, Phaedra and a vast...

The Roots of Electro-Pop-John Foxx's Metamatic Turns 45: The Echoes Interview In the 1980s, you couldn’t be sure now long New Wave music would last. But now in 2025, Depeche Mode , Orchestral Manouvres in the Dark and Gary Numan are still recording and touring, and newer bands like Ladytron, Washed Out, Emma Anderson, Maps and World Brain are ascending. It’s a sound that isn’t going away. This yea...

Echoes Podcast: Maps Counter Electronic Melodies and The Art of Noise 40th Anniversary.   The Echoes Podcast features two electronic artists, one from the future past and one from the present future, with James Chapman of Maps and The Art of Noise , celebrating the 40th anniversary of their debut album, Who’s Afraid of the Art of Noise! released in June, 1984. The artist known as MAPS h...