PRX: Echoes Interview Podcast

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...

Words of a Synth God: Vangelis-The Complete 1982 Totally Wired Interview A true God of electronic music, Vangelis, ascended the heavens at age 79 on May 17th, 2022. Although his glory days were in the 1970s and 80s, he was just coming back into form with albums like Rosetta and Juno to Jupiter . Vangelis is an artist better known by his work than his name. Mention the Greek synthesist to the gener...

Echoes Podcast Steve Roach & Linda Kohanov and Afro Celt Sound System Founder Simon Emmerson Remembered. In 1984 Steve Roach released what remains one of his two best known recordings, Structures from Silence . Now, nearly 40 years later he returns to that sound on the album, Rest of Life . It’s a double CD of mostly quiet and deep ruminations.  There’s no digeridoos or modular synthes...

Didon's Arabic World Fusion: The Echoes Interview with Carmen Rizzo & Meriem Ben Amor We explore the Arabic fusion of Didon . We talk to producer Carmen Rizzo ( Niyaz, Huun-Huur-Tu, Delerium , Alanis Morissette ) and Tunisian singer Meriem Ben Amor about their fusion of traditional vocal sounds and electronic arrangements heard on their debut, Tunisian Tale . It is sensual, mystical and mysterious...

Klaus Schulze: The Complete Totally Wired Interview Part Two. In this Podcast, the second part of our two-part 1982 interview with Klaus Schulze. He’s an Icon of Echoes , an Icon of Electronic Music and an icon period. All three are German electronic composer Klaus Schulze . He left the planet last year on April 26, but from 1969 until that date, he released hundreds of albums and shaped a g...

Klaus Schulze: The Complete Echoes/Totally Wired Interview Pt.1 In this Podcast, an Icon of Echoes , an Icon of Electronic Music and an icon period. All three are German electronic composer Klaus Schulze . He left the planet last year on April 26, but from 1969 until that date, he released hundreds of albums and shaped a generation of electronic artists including Steve Roach , Jean-Michel Jarre ,...

Sound Unbound: Big Ears Festival Preview with Ashley Capps in Echoes Podcast In the echoes Podcast a preview of the Big Ears Festival 2023 . Founder Ashley Capps had his musical epiphany with The Mothers of Invention and their second album, Absolutely Free which, like all early albums from Frank  Zappa , had the Edgar Varese quote, “The modern day composer refuses to die.”  Capps took...

Decoding Karmacoda and Sunroof's Joy of Wires and Knobs: The Echoes Podcast Interviews Get your soul shoes on when we talk to Karmacoda .  They started out as a trip-hop inspired band but have transitioned into a sound that is more 70s R&B. We talk to the singer Jessica Ford and instrumentalist and singer Brett Crockett about their soulful affinities, their new album, Lessons in Time , and Ame...

Hammock Delivers Us from the Void: The Echoes Podcast The ambient guitar duo Hammock talk about their latest album, Love in the Void . It’s a post-pandemic release and one of their most energized albums in years. Hammock’s Love in the Void sounds like an album from a band who has emerged from a long dark tunnel. The music they made in that tunnel was deep and immersive, wrapping you in...

Brian Eno-Totally Wired-The Complete Interview Brian Eno should need no introduction to any music fan. A member of Roxy Music , architect of Ambient Music, producer at the edges of Pop, his mark has been felt across music, from classical to rock and beyond.  In 1987, I conducted the first of several interviews with Eno across three  decades. Bits and pieces have been heard in the 80s radio series...

Marconi Union's A Live Connection in Echoes Podcast Marconi Union are a UK electronic trio that rarely performs live, but they’re releasing concert film called Marconi Union: A Live Connection . We talk to them about bringing their moody, atmospheric sound to a live setting. It’s a pay-per-view video which will be available on a limited-time basis. Premium Ticket buyers will also be ab...

Imaginary Voices. Meredith Monk: The Echoes Podcast Interview Hear the voice of the collective subconscious in Meredith Monk . Before Elizabeth Fraser , Lisa Gerrard and Azam Ali , there was Meredith Monk, singing in her own, abstracted language, creating a sound like folk songs from another planet. A 13-CD set of her music, The Recordings on ECM Records has just been released. We talk with Meredi...

A Trio of Resister Sisters: The Echoes Interview with Cosey Fanni Tutti in Echoes Podcast. Throbbing Gristle was an English band at the bleeding edge of Industrial rock. Cosey Fanni Tutti was at the center of that band and and one half of the duos, Chris & Cosey and CarterTutti , both with her husband and ex-TG member, Chris Carter . In her acclaimed 2017 autobiography, Art Sex Music , she tal...

Jimi Hendrix at 80: Producer Eddie Kramer Looks Back Jimi Hendrix would’ve turned 80 this past November 27th.  We celebrate by talking to Eddie Kramer , producer and engineer of Hendrix’s first three albums and many of the posthumous releases as well as John McDermott , Hendrix curator for Experience Hendrix and author of several books on the legendary guitarist.  We talk about the new...

World Fusionists Ricky Kej & David Vito Gregorio: The Echoes Podcast American multi-instrumentalist David Vito Gregoli and Indian producer and keyboard player Ricky Kej take us on the journey of their album, Wild Monsoon . It’s an east-west fusion of electronics and Indian music that turns into a global fusion where shredding guitars meet Taiko drums, tabla and electronics. David Vito Gregol...

Sheila Chandra's Global Vocal Fusion: Monsoon at 40: The Echoes Podcast Sheila Chandra is now a heralded singer lauded for her unique vocal style and global fusion heard on many albums including her ground-breaking trilogy on Real World Records : Weaving My Ancestors Voices , The Zen Kiss and Bonecronedrone . But that all began 40 Years ago with the group Monsoon featuring Sheila on vocals. They h...

Psychedelic Dreams in Dystopia: The Black Angels Echoes Interview in Echoes Podcast Black Angels descend on the next Echoes. The Black Angels are a psychedelic band out of Austin Texas, who sound like they mainlined the Nuggets collection of 60s garage rock from the first Psychedelic Era. But there’s more than hallucinogens to this long-lived band who tackle political and social themes amids...