PRX: Echoes Interview Podcast

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...

Echoes Podcast: We remember Low Roar's Ryan Karaziya Ryan Karaziya of Low Roar Live on Echoes 2014 On the Echoes Podcast, we go back to a couple of Echoes features that ran in 2011 and 2014.  Both were with the group, Low Roar , whose founder and principal creator, Ryan Karaziya , left the planet on October 29 th . I was saddened to hear that Ryan had left us. He was only 40 years old. Ryan was on...

Delay Tactics Return: The Echoes Interview The progressive rock band Delay Tactics returns after 38 years with three of the original members:  Carl Weingarten, Walter Whitney and David Udell. They talk about their new album, Elements of Surprise and the influence of space age bachelor pad music , Giorgio Moroder, Fripp & Eno  and Tangerine Dream  with John Diliberto on Echoes from PRX . Hear o...

Rebecca Pidgeon's Yoga Journey: The Echoes Interview John Diliberto and Rebecca Pidgeon Rebecca Pidgeon may be best known as an actress from films like Homicide, The Spanish Prisoner , and State and Main . But she’s also released a string of really good solo albums. However, her latest is a departure. Inspired by her yoga practice she explores themes of the mind, consciousness and chakras. I...

Bob Moog's Electronic Dream-The Story of the Moog Synthesizer Author and composer Albert Glinsky talks about his book, Switched-On, Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution . It’s a deep dive into the inventor who changed the face of modern music with the Moog Synthesizer and Mini-Moog . From avant-garde obscurity to Switched-On Bach, to the popular music mainstream, we hear the tale of this...

Daniel Lanois-Past, Present, Piano: The Echoes Interview John Diliberto and Daniel Lanois Daniel Lanois is the famed producer of U2 and collaborator with Brian Eno . He’s a a musician who is usually found behind an acoustic, electric and pedal steel guitars or a mixing console. But he has created an album of ambient piano works called Player, Piano . It will take you back to the piano rumina...

The Ambient Waiting Lounge of Airport People: The Echoes Interview in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, we talk with Airport People . That’s not the many travelers suffering with airline delays, but ambient chamber music artist Leon Todd Johnson . He’s released an album of creaky piano centered compositions called From Nine Mornings . But he’s also a child of the Civil Rights...

Lumenette's Songs of Despair, the Spirit and Sex in Space: The Echoes Interview Singer Christine Byrd has emerged out of the Christian music scene and backing vocals for the band Hammock to forge her music of liberation, loss and atonement as Lumenette . Each song on her debut, All Around My Head taps into the emotional waveforms of Christine Byrd. She composed the album over the last several year...

Echoes Podcast: Otyken's Siberian Groove Experience the Siberian sound of Otyken . They are marrying a tribal sound of the native Chulym people with modern production and the ferocious voice of Azyan . We talked to them from their studio in Siberia where Azyan and Svengali Andrei Mendonos talk about horsehead fiddles, Jaw harps and the primal voice of Azyan. Their latest full-length album is Kykak...

Tone Ranger Giddy-ups Into Ambient Country Space in Echoes Podcast   Hit the trail with Tone Ranger. That’s the moniker of Alex Simon who has been immersing himself in country gone psychedelic sounds for a long time. Now he’s taken influences from the desert southwest, soundtracks, country music, electronic music and more, creating desert southwest landscapes merging electronics w...