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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...

Darkside's Psychic Debut: The Echoes Interview Darkside is the name of a trippy duo that mixes electronics with expansive guitar solos, heavy rhythms and swirling textures. They met in Brown University and began performing together when David Harrington played guitar in Nicolas Jaar ’s touring band.  Free improvisations in their hotel room led to their first real collaboration. Their debut album,...

Hammock Out of the Void: The Complete Echoes Interview Last January I had a great interview with Hammock , the ambient guitar duo.  It was long and wide-ranging but we could only fit so much into a 15-minute piece. Today, however, I bring you the complete interview where Hammock talk about their latest album, Love in the Void . as well as religion, therapy, sobriety, and the return of guitars that...

Devo Turns 50. Hear Their Previously Unreleased 1987 Interview They haven’t recorded anything new in over a decade, and nothing for twenty years before that.  Their most consequential body of work was at the turn of the 1980s where they presaged New Wave music. But Devo remains a singularly unique entity. There is no one like them and their influence has been broad and deep . Their music is laced...

Opium Moon's Sound of Unity and Sensuality: The Echoes Podcast Interview Today we journey into world fusion with Opium Moon . This is the Grammy winning ensemble who are part of a new wave of artists fusing sounds from the Middle east. Their music taps the overtly sensual sounds of this region. But Opium Moon’s Lili Hadyn says it’s all about the spirit. Lili Hayden: Honestly, it’s all about flow....

Mimi Page: Dream Pop, Deep Trauma, and Healing: The Complete Interview in Echoes Podcast Mimi Page is an auteur of electronic dream pop and a composer of video game scores. You’ve heard her music turn up in TV series like Dark .  We’ve been intoxicated by her for years whether it’s her serene vocals on Breathe Me In , the celestial choirs of Dark Before the Dawn , her collaborati...

Trumpeter Jeff Oster Goes Lo-Fi & Al Petteway Remembered in the Echoes Podcast: The Echoes Interview Photo Credit: Irene Young We go lo-fi and ambient jazz when Jeff Oster talks about his new album, hØwling lØØn . Known for his work with Will Ackerman and FLOW , Oster creates a surreal loungescape that’s quite a bit different. He plays more trumpet than he has in years, uses samples and found soun...

Steve Roach & Robert Rich's Tangerine Dream Experience: The Echoes Interview In this Echoes Podcast episode, I’ve got a special interview with two icons of Echoes who recently played with another icon of Echoes.  Tangerine Dream recently toured the US and in several cities, they invited specials guest to perform with them in the improvised encore segment that they call Sessions. In Tucson an...

The Ambient Jungle: Lis Addison in Echoes Podcast Lis Addison is a musician, singer, dancer and electronic artist.  She was schooled in the avant-garde at Mills College with musicians like Terry Riley as teachers. But she fled that for a different sound that embodies chant, meditation, ambient music and often, actual songs.  She has a new album inspired by her visits and environmental work in Keny...