PRX: Echoes Interview Podcast

Ladytron's Plugged in World: The Echoes Podcast Complete Interview Back in May of this year I interviewed the electronic pop band Ladytron . We ran that feature on Echoes and in the Podcast in the usual, produced form in a 16 minute feature. We only used a small portion of it in the feature, but that interview was such a blast that I thought you might want to hear all of it.  If you don’t kn...

Anna's Ambience Through Alpha Waves: The Echoes Interview. In the Echoes Podcast we hear electronic sounds from Brazil when we talk to Anna . She started out in thumping hard core Techno but then had her Alpha waves adjusted and came out on the other side of the pandemic with a purely ambient album, Intentions .   She got people like Jon Hopkins , East Forest and Laraaji to collaborate with her. T...

Secret Sky with Caroline Lavelle and Brian Hughes in Echoes Podcast. In the Echoes Podcast we hear from Secret Sky , the world fusion group comprised of Loreena McKennitt band members,’ cellist and singer Caroline Lavelle and guitarist Brian Hughes . They recently released their second album, Opium . They talk about their folk roots, and their move from traditional English folk songs to all...

The Dream Continues-The Echoes Tangerine Dream 2023 Interview: Echoes Podcast The future is now when we talk to Tangerine Dream .  This iconic, innovative band is still going after more than 50 years even if nobody from the 70s, 80, or 90s era of the wired ensemble are still in it. Founder Edgar Froese died in 2015, but before he did, he anointed Thorsten Quaschning and Hoshiko Yamane as official...

Deborah Martin & Jill Haley's Ambient Chamber Space Music: The Echoes Interview Neo-Classical meets electronic space on Echoes when John Diliberto talks to wind and piano player Jill Haley and electronic artist Deborah Martin . Jill is known for her decades-long work with the acoustic fusion group, One Alternative, multiple recording sessions on the productions of Windham Hill Records founder Will...

Moby's Complete 2011 Echoes Interview: Echoes Podcast Moby at his Drum Machine Wall. pic: Diliberto Today, I’ve got another extended Echoes Podcast for you. We’re going to hear from Moby . I’ve interviewed him about 7 times, most recently in the spring of this year. But I wanted to go back to one of my early interviews from 2011. This was the second time I spoke to Moby and it wa...

Mimi Page's Sound Healing Dream Pop in Echoes Podcast: The Echoes Interview 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 collaborations with Dele...

Echoes Podcast II: In the Moment with John McLaughlin: The Complete Echoes Interview Several weeks ago we presented you with our produced interview featuring guitarist John McLaughlin. In the Echoes Podcast, we now give you the complete interview. John McLaughlin comes in to talk about Shakti and improvisation. He explains how improvisation is related to meditation, putting you in a state of not t...

Echoes Podcast: Ambiences from the Heartland: SUSS & Balmorhea: The Echoes Interviews The Ambient Country band SUSS struggles with loss and finds a way to be reborn. After co-founding member Gary Lieb died, they had to reevaluate not only their existence, but their sound. Their new double album, SUSS , tracks their journey from union to loss to renewal.  John Diliberto talks to SUSS about hidden r...

Chinese Poets and Surreal Sound: Robert Rich-The Complete Echoes Interview Robert Rich is the 11th of 30 Icons of Echoes and has been a fixture on the show from the first day. He’s a polymath who is not only adept at many instruments but many other disciplines.  They include audio recording and mastering, wine making and dream theory. He writes poetry, seriously, and he creates beautifully a...

Echoes Podcast; Nathan Speir-From the Basement to the Heavens: The Echoes Interview On Echoes we often have big name artists. Just recently John McLaughlin , BT , Moby and Ladytron have graced the show. But we support lesser known artists with the same enthusiasm, artists who aren’t out in the world and in the case of Nathan Speir , making music in his basement.  He’s an eclectic playe...

Echoes Podcast: The Complete BT Interview We recently featured the artist known as BT on Echoes and in the podcast.  But the whole interview was so engaging that we’re going to give you the entire interview here. BT, aka Brian Transeau, is a polymath who gets into the code of his music. Alongside his more rhythm-driven releases, he has a string of more atmospheric, experimental works that be...

Echoes Podcast: Amaara's Amazing Technicolor Dream Trauma: The Echoes Interview Amaara is actress Kaelen Ohm . She’s been in some recent TV series including the short-lived Hit and Run (Netflix) and the horror series, From (MGM+). That one just concluded its second season. Amaara is actually Ohm’s middle name. In between filming and during the pandemic she managed to create a statement...

Robert Rich's Asian Journey and A Produce Remembered in Echoes Podcast Robert Rich is the 11th of 30 Icons of Echoes and has been a fixture on the show from the first day. He’s a polymath who is not only adept at many instruments but many other disciplines.  They include audio recording and mastering, wine making and dream theory. He writes poetry, seriously, and he creates beautifully abstr...

BT Finds Electronic Grooves in Nature: The Echoes Podcast The artist known as BT , not to be confused with BTS , is a polymath who gets into the code of his music. Among his more rhythm-driven releases, he has a string of more atmospheric, experimental works that began with This Binary Universe . He’s just released the 4th album in this series, The Secret Language of Trees , and although it&...

Echoes Podcast: Whipped Cream & Other Delights: The Echoes Interview It’s Whipped Cream and other delights in the Echoes Podcast. Well really, just Whipped Cream. And no, I’m not referring to the 1965 album by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass with that suggestive cover. I’m talking about the moniker of Caroline Cecil who makes downtempo electronic music as Whipped Cream. She wen...

Echoes Podcast: Shakti Reborn Again-The Echoes Interview with John McLaughlin In the Echoes Podcast, guitarist John McLaughlin comes in to talk about Shakti and improvisation. He explains how improvisation is related to meditation, putting you in a state of not thinking, but being in the moment, In the 1970s, McLaughlin followed-up the electric fury of the Mahavishnu Orchestra with the acoustic In...

Echoes Podcast: Pregnancy, Motherhood and Nature with Shana Cleveland: The Echoes Interview If you follow the outskirts of alternative rock, you may have run across the band, La Luz . They specialize in a surf-influenced brand of sometimes-dreamy rock. The lead singer and guitarist in the group is Shana Cleveland . She’s been nurturing a quieter solo career, creating more introspective music...

Echoes Podcast: Caterina Barbieri's Retro-Futurism: The Echoes Interview Electronic music Italian style when we talk to Caterina Barbieri . She’s a solo artist who works in modular synthesis, creating a sound of slowly-evolving patterns that weave through EDM, Minimalism and sequencer drive. She harkens back to pioneers like Morton Subotnick and shares his psychedelic underpinnings. She just...

Echoes Podcast: The Dream Pop Dynasty of Delerium - The Echoes Interview We enter a hallucinogenic state when we talk with Delerium , the long-lived Canadian dream pop duo. They emerged out of the industrial rock of Front Line Assembly in 1987 and have run in parallel in a perfect yin & yang of noise and serenity. We’ll talk to founder Bill Leeb  and longtime collaborator  Rhys Fulber ab...

Echoes Podcast John Robb and the History of Goth: The Echoes Interview The sound of Goth has permeated music since the early 1980s and continues to this day with artists like Bauhaus , The Cure , Dead Can Dance and Siouxsie and the Banshees .. Author and musician John Robb has created a definitive chronicle of this movement in his book, The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth . They embrace the m...

Echoes Podcast: Ladytron and Tubular Bells 50th The electronic pop of Ladytron . We talk to this band from England who have been creating electrified pop sounds for all of the 21 st Century. They released their latest album, the introspective Time’s Arrow , early in 2023. Their 2005 song, “Seventeen” became a TikTok sensation in 2021. Ladytron’s Helen Marnie and Daniel Hunt...

Echoes Podcast; Moby Resounds Past Present Future: The Echoes Interview In the Echoes Podcast, Moby. Moby is one of those artists who is hard to keep up with. It’s been about three years since our last conversation. In that time, he’s released five albums including his latest, Resound NYC , about 10 non-album singles, several videos and a documentary film the Punk Rock Vegan Movie . He...

Michael Whalen's Virtual Super-Group Michael Whalen trips into the fantastic with his new album, Our April Tigers . He’s gathered a super-group that includes guitarist Michael Brook , bassist Michael Manring , trumpeter Jeff Oster, and percussionist Karsh Kale . The title is AI-generated and the music was crafted remotely. Hear Whalen, Brook, and Oster talk about their blindfolded creation t...

Echoes Podcast: Ibeyi Casts a Spell: The Echoes Interview Ibeyi Live at Big Ears (Pic Diliberto) Experience the joy of Ibeyi . That’s Yoruba for twins and this duo are twin sisters, Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz , from France who have an intoxicating sound that merges pop, hip-hop, African and Cuban grooves and harmonies that only twin sisters have. Their father was a percussionist in the...