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Echoes feature - Bryan Carrigan Bryan Carrigan has worked on dozens of films, TV shows and albums, but mostly as a behind-the-scenes engineer or producer. He also created the smoky soundscapes of Jeff Oster's CD called Surrender and has released two electronic albums of his own in the last year, both marked by catchy melodies and riveting grooves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Krusseldorf Krusseldorf is a nom-de-plume used by Swedish electronic artist Simon Heath. He's created a beautifully melodic brand of downtempo electronica which seems to create kinetic sculptures before your eyes. We talk to him about it and his album, From Soil to Space. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Patrick O'Hearn He's an icon of Echoes. His latest album, Transitions, was an Echoes CD of the Month, and listeners picked it as the Best Echoes CD of 2011. We talk to this veteran musician about his musical evolution and making an album entirely on lap steel guitars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Iarla O'Lionaird He was the soulful Irish voice of Afro Celt Sound System, but now on his own, Iarla O'Lionaird has teamed up with Brian Eno collaborator, Leo Abrahams. They made an album of deep and atmospheric Celtic Aires called Foxlight. We talk to Iarla about tapping the Celtic soul. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Darshan Ambient Darshan Ambient's Dream in Blue was the Echoes CD of the Month in December. We talk to Michael Allison, the man behind this gorgeous electronic music, about his electronic homage to Miles Davis, and how he got from playing with Richard Hell and Nona Hendryx to here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Mazmoneth Nigel Mullaney and Ray Sherwin are guitarists and keyboardists deeply into space music, progressive rock and the occult. They started out recording music for relaxation but now create a sound that propels you into the unknown. We talk to them about their album, Music by Mirrors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Jon Durant Jon Durant is a veteran modern music composer with progressive rock roots. His latest album, Dance of the Shadow Planets, is an exploration of electric improvisation for guitar, violin and percussion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Throbbing Gristle As Carter Tutti, Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti record delicate, introspective and personal music, in the 1970s and 80s they were one-half of the pioneering Industrial Rock band, Throbbing Gristle. The first five TG albums have just been re-released, so we talk to these artists who created some of the most confrontational music of the 1970s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Akara. Akara is the duo of keyboardist Joshua Penman and singer Femke Weidema, and they say there is another dimension within ours. They sing lyrics written by beings in that dimension and create a global electronic soundscape around them. Back in this dimension, Akara talk about their mythological music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Jeff Oster. The influence of Miles Davis is all over these days and none bear it more than Jeff Oster. He takes the electric sound of the jazz icon into the 21st century on a CD of ambient lounge music called Surrender. Jeff Oster talks to John Diliberto about his new CD and life-changes that shaped its mood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Russel Walder and Bruce Lipton. Oboist Russel Walder, who came to renown as half of the Stein and Walder duo on Windham Hill records, now creates ambient chamber music, surrounding his instrument with electronic textures. His latest album, Music for a Shift in Consciousness, is inspired by author Bruce Lipton. We talk to both of them about manipulating musical DNA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Azam Ali. It's lullabies from the Middle East transformed by the voice of Iranian-born singer, Azam Ali. She updates these songs on a new CD called From Night To the Edge of Day. We talk to the singer, who has also been the voice of the Persian fusion groups Vas and Niyaz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Portico Quartet. Their debut album, Knee-Deep in the North Sea, has just been reissued on Peter Gabriel's Real World label, so we go back to our interview with the Portico Quartet. They're an English jazz group who started out busking on London streets, drawing crowds with music centered on the melodic percussion of the Hang drum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Gentle Giant. Gentle Giant wasn't the most popular progressive rock band of the 1970s, but it was one of the most respected. They were known for their complex compositions, madrigal singing, and conceptual albums that pushed the limits of rock. We'll hear their tale, including the story of Elton John almost becoming a member Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Pallers. Pallers is yet another atmospheric ambient band from Scandinavia, in this case, Sweden. We'll talk to the duo about their haunting debut CD, The Sea of Memories, which mixes ambient sound design and elusive vocals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Lia Ices. Lia Ices is an enchanting singer from Brooklyn who reveals the influences of Kate Bush and Enya in a music that is thoroughly her own. We talk to her about her album, Grown Unknown. The BBC said that "this is one many will be coming back to whenever stress levels flit into the red." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Mary Fahl - From the Dark Side of the Moon She was the voice of October Project in the 1990s. Now she's brought that distinctive, full-throated voice to her own music. She just released a front-to-back cover of Pink Floyd's epic album, From the Dark Side of the Moon. We bring Mary Fahl into the light to talk about her passion for Pink Floyd and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Johanna and the Dusty Floor Johanna is Johanna Cranitch, an Australian transplant with a vocal style influenced by Kate Bush and a sound honed in electronica. Her album Northern Lights is a song-cycle of haunted memories that includes a cover of Bush's tune Cloudbusting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - AOMusic AOMusic is a conceptual project inspired by thoughts of world peace. They've put together a global melange which includes the South African inspired vocalese of Miriam Stockley who came to fame as the voice of Adiemus. We talk to AOMusic about their ethno-techno sound. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Divine Matrix A former dance music DJ plugs into his chilled and melodic side when we talk with Steve Barnes, better known as Divine Matrix. He talks about his music and the concept behind his ostentatious name. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Time for Three The name Time for Three is a little awkward, but their music is anything but. This young string trio, playing violins and bass talk about their eclectic backgrounds and a music that goes from Arvo Part to Orange Blossom Special. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Balmorhea Balmorhea is a quartet of musicians that should probably be playing rock and roll, and in their own fashion, they might be. Using acoustic guitars, piano, violin and cello, they orchestrate a haunting, pastoral sound tinged by country and born out of the landscapes of Texas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Ryuichi Sakamoto Ryuichi Sakamoto is the Academy Award winning, critically acclaimed, and willfully eclectic Japanese composer and pianist who has worked with David Bowie, David Byrne and many others. He also founded the pop group Yellow Magic Orchestra and has released a string of solo albums ranging in style from the romantic to the noisy. We talk about concepts of the noise of music with this innovative artist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Karda Estra Prompted by the release a couple of new recordings, we take a look back at our 2009 interview with Karda Estra, the recording persona of English composer Richard Wileman. He started out as a rocker but veered into composing classical works for chamber ensembles and electric guitar. His imagery tends to be gothic and his music dramatic. We'll talk to him about a sound that falls between progressive rock and classical cracks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Atomic Skunk Atomic Skunk's name may stink but the music is pure immersive exotic ambience. Musician Rich Brodsky's latest release is an intoxicating and melodic excursion through electronic modes, ambient moods and gamelan grooves. It's the Echoes CD of the Month for August, so we'll take a look back at an interview we did with Atomic Skunk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Pat Metheny Iconic guitarist Pat Metheny goes pop on a CD of 1960s cover tunes called What's It All About. The title comes from the lyrics to Alfie and that's one of the pop tunes Metheny covers, along with songs by Paul Simon, Carly Simon, and The Carpenters. Pat Metheny talks about his pop improvisations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Colin Vallon Trio They actually want to be referred to as Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret and Samuel Rohrer. That's not very concise but it does speak to the collaborative nature of this piano trio, which explores intuitive improvisations and prepared piano. We talk about their latest ECM album, Rruga and the art of free improvisation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Winterlight It's a name that's out of season for most of the year, but the music fits in all seasons. Winterlight is the recording persona of England's Tim Ingham who creates dreamy, shoegazer-influenced soundscapes topped by epic melodies. He talks about his album, Hope Dies Last, which was the Echoes CD of the Month in June. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Vic Hennegan Vic Hennegan is something of an anomaly, a black electronic space musician. Growing up in Philly, instead of Michael Jackson, he dialed up the sounds of Tangerine Dream and now makes his own space music. He talks about his new - and best - CD, Field of Worlds and Mirrors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Finnouala Sherry Fionnuala Sherry is half of the Irish - Norwegian duo, Secret Garden. She steps out on her own with a surprisingly textural, deeply ambient album called Songs from Before. From her home in Dublin, the violinist talks about spinning traditional tunes through an ethereal landscape. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Moby: Electronic The artist known as Moby has been a leading exponent of electronic music for the last two decades. We talk to him about the roots of his sound and his wall of vintage drum machines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Moby: Destroyed The avatar of ambient soundscapes and dance hits continues on his road to becoming an atmospheric singer-songwriter on his new CD, Destroyed. Moby talks about his new, introspective album concerning themes of love, loss and death. But it's much more life-affirming than that. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Richard Anthony Jay Orchestral electronica is another area of ambient chamber music, and English composer Richard Anthony Jay has tapped into a sound of symphonic majesty with a real orchestra, but touched by electronica's atmospherics. He talks about his music and latest CD, Imperfect Beauty. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Radio Massacre International - 2011 Despite their name, they don't hate radio, though but they do make music you won't hear broadcast much, except on Echoes. We'll hear from this English trio who can evoke early Pink Floyd one moment and Tangerine Dream the next. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - The Forefathers The Forefathers are a Florida band whose guitar-centric sound is based on the e-bow and delay techniques popularized by the Scottish group, Big Country. Their all-instrumental music also embraces Americana with open-sky harmonica melodies. We talk to this band about their latest CD, Aurora. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Sumner McKane Always an exponent of Ambient Americana, guitarist Sumner McKane scores a soundtrack for a documentary called In the Blood, about Maine's logging industry in the early 20th century. He also produced the film. His score calls up folk themes and modern ambiences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Azam Ali It's lullabies from the Middle East transformed by the voice of Iranian-born singer, Azam Ali. She updates these songs on a new CD called From Night To the Edge of Day. We talk to the singer, who has also been the voice of the Persian fusion groups Vas and Niyaz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Vicki Richards Vicki Richards plays electric violin, and although she was inspired by the fusion music of the 1970s and 80s, her own sound is more introspective and drawn from personal experience. She talks about her new album, She Vanishes, the Echoes CD of the Month for April. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Agnes Obel Agnes Obel's debut album was the Echoes CD of the Month in January. We sit down with the Danish singer-songwriter who talks about the often personal stories behind her haunting and entrancing ambient chamber music songs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Skuli Sverrisson In his New York City apartment, Laurie Anderson's music director, Skuli Sverrisson, pulls out his bass, toy piano and more, when he reveals the concepts behind his subtle and complex ambient chamber music. His CD Seria II echoes Italian film composers Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota and sends them into atmospheric terrain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie Harold Budd is the keyboardist who created the sound of ambient chamber music. As the guitarist of The Cocteau Twins, Robin Guthrie created dream guitar textures. The two musicians have just put out a new CD of atmospherically chilled music called Bordeaux. They talk about their music on Echoes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Heligoland Heligoland is the name of an island off the coast of Germany, and also the title of a Massive Attack album, but it's also a group from Australia via Paris that creates an ethereal dream pop. Their new album, All Your Ships are White, was produced by ex-Cocteau Twins guitarist Robin Guthrie. We talk to the band's founders, singer Karen Vogt and bassist Steve Wheeler, about Heligoland's journey geographically and musically. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Olafur Arnalds Icelandic composer and keyboardist Olafur Arnalds sculpts an ambient chamber music landscape full of pensive moods and melodies that insinuate themselves in slow motion elegance. We talk with him about the chilled ambiences of his concept album, And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - David Arkenstone This composer and multi-instrumentalist built his reputation as the sultan of symphonic new age music, but on his new CD, Ambient World, he takes a more contemplative and textural approach. We talk with David Arkenstone about the Japanese influence on this album, which was our Echoes CD of the Month in February. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Richard Marvin Interview: In Treatment composer Richard Marvin. There isn't a lot of music in HBO's psychological drama, In Treatment, but listen at the end of each show and you'll hear a composition that taps the mood of these provocative psychological examinations. We talk to Richard Marvin who composed and played these electronic studies of the mind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Robert Miles He came to renown in the mid 1990s with his dance-fueled electronic hit, Children, but since then, Italian artist Robert Miles has pursued a course of electronic fusion, mixing jazz grooves and rock guitar, and world music elements into his sound. He has a new album called Thirteen that's a study in post-electric Miles Davis ambient textures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Royksopp In Norway, musicians seem to spin dream pop and electronic ambiences straight out of the arctic air. We'll hear one of the leading exponents of electronica, Royksopp, when they talk about their music from their surprisingly ambient new CD, Senior. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Will Romano - Mountains Come Out of the Sky - The Illustrated History of Prog Rock Will Romano, author of Mountains Come Out of the Sky - The Illustrated History of Prog Rock, was too young to experience the heyday of progressive rock, but he's gone back to explore the sounds of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Yes, and more in this heavily researched book full of key interviews. We talk with Will Romano about the rise of prog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Johan Agebjorn In Sweden, Johan Agebjorn creates music of paradoxes. He's a fan of disco and has a hit group called Sally Shapiro. But he also makes deep ambient music. It's high-tech, but informed by Gregorian chants and recordings of trains his mother made. Join Echoes when Johan Agebjorn talks about his nordic electronica. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - William Tyler Fusing his Nashville background with influences ranging from finger-style iconoclast John Fahey to ambient pioneer Brian Eno, William Tyler picks out Americana songs tinged with deep atmosphere on his CD Behold the Spirit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Cluster Cluster influenced a generation of musicians from Brian Eno to Johnny Rotten. The catalog of these German electronic legends is currently being reissued. Cluster founders Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius talk about their quirky, often home-brewed electronic sound from the 1970s and 80s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Dave Eggar and Deoro Cellist and pianist Dave Eggar is a complicated musician who does session work for practically everyone, and has released albums from new age piano to sublime chamber works. His latest album finds him exploring Reggae music. Dave Eggar talks about music from Messiaen to Marley. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Near the Parenthesis Near The Parenthesis is the performance name of Tim Arndt. He's a musician who mixes melodic piano lines with glitchy electronics and moody atmospheres. We go between the parentheses to find out the points and asides of his music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Mark Preston Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Nils Petter Molvaer Nils Petter Molvaer is a 21st century trumpeter from Norway who employs electronic rhythms, free improvisation and elaborate processing on his trumpet for a breathy, introspective sound. He talks about his music and latest album, Hamada. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature -Boxharp A boxharp is a zither instrument associated with Appalachian music and it's also the name of a quirky duo. Scott Solter and Wendy Allen create swampy, moody renditions of folk songs they've heard from people like Burl Ives. It's not your grandfather's Old Smokey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Anil Prasad's Innerviews On his website, Innerviews.org, Anil Prasad conducts introspective interviews with leading figures in music. Now he's written a book called Innerviews - Music Without Borders, with new and expanded interviews with artists like Bjork, Chuck D, Tangerine Dream and John McLaughlin. We interview Anil Prasad about Innerviews - Music Without Borders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Jeff Johnson and Brian Dunning Jeff Johnson and Brian Dunning are veterans of Celtic crossover playing keyboards and flute. On a new CD of seasonal music called Under the Wonder Sky, they re-imagine Christmas. Joined by violinist Wendy Goodwin, the trio talks about the meaning of Christmas and Under the Wonder Sky. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Brian Eno - An Icon of Echoes As Echoes celebrated its 20th anniversary, listeners voted for the 20 Icons of Echoes. Topping the poll by a wide margin was Brian Eno. Hear why this musician, Producer, philosopher and provocateur is considered so influential. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - David Lanz Like many of us, David Lanz grew up on The Beatles and now he's paid homage to the fab four with a CD of impressionistic Beatles covers called Liverpool: Re-imagining the Beatles. With Gary Stroutsos playing Chinese Xiao flute, they turn Beatles songs into expansive chamber works. They tell us about their sojourn to Liverpool. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - The American Dollar The American Dollar is a band, not a currency. In a bedroom in Queens, NY, John Emanuele and Rich Cupolo sculpt electronic and guitar dreamscapes that range from ambient to epic. Their music has turned up in ads and TV shows like CSI. We talk to The American Dollar about their music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Ryuichi Sakamoto Ryuichi Sakamoto is the Academy Award winning, critically acclaimed, and willfully eclectic Japanese composer and pianist who has worked with David Bowie, David Byrne and many others. He also founded the pop group Yellow Magic Orchestra and has released a string of solo albums ranging in style from the romantic to the noisy. We talk about concepts of the noise of music with this innovative artist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature -Boxharp A boxharp is a zither instrument associated with Appalachian music and it's also the name of a quirky duo. Scott Solter and Wendy Allen create swampy, moody renditions of folk songs they've heard from people like Burl Ives. It's not your grandfather's Old Smokey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Anil Prasad On his website, Innerviews.org, Anil Prasad conducts introspective interviews with leading figures in music. Now he's written a book called Innerviews - Music Without Borders with new and expanded interviews with artists like Bjork, Chuck D, Tangerine Dream and John McLaughlin. We interview Anil Prasad about Innerviews - Music Without Borders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Moogfest 2010 Moogfest 2010 is one of the biggest electronic music festivals of the year. With acts like Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, and Jonsi from Sigur Ros, it's less about Robert Moog and more about his legacy in an electronic world. We talk to the creators of Moogfest and Michelle Moog-Koussa, Moog's daughter and executive director of the Bob Moog Foundation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Nils Petter Molvaer Nils Petter Molvaer is a 21st century trumpeter from Norway who employs electronic rhythms, free improvisation and elaborate processing on his trumpet for a breathy, introspective sound. He talks about his music and latest album, Hamada. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Portico Quartet You can't turn around these days without hearing the ringing metallic sounds of a Hang drum, but the English group called Portico Quartet takes this exotic instrument into a world of modal jazz improvisations. We'll talk with this chamber jazz ensemble. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Michael Rother No one heard of them 40 years ago, but the 1970s German bands Neu and Harmonia are now cited in every other review of hip alt-rock bands. We talk to a founder of those groups, guitarist Michael Rother, who is still creating brilliant music on his own, and who recently toured the U.S. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Harold Budd - An Icon of Echoes Producer Daniel Lanois says that Harold Budd plays like feathers on the piano. For over four decades, this composer has been charting a subtle course of ambient chamber music. We'll look back on his music, drawing from 30 years of interviews in an ambient portrait of our 20th Icon of Echoes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Goldmund He plays piano like it's barely there, makes ambient music that whispers and has an electronica duo that seduces. His name is Keith Kenniff, but he records as Goldmund, Helios and Mint Julep. He talks about his fragile music and the new Goldmund album, Famous Places. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature -Tierra Negra and Muriel Anderson Tierra Negra is a Flamenco guitar duo from Germany. They team up with American harp guitarist Muriel Anderson to play an intricate brand of world string music on their CD, New World Flamenco. We gather the trio to talk about guitar music from Andalusia to Nashville. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - On Fillmore On Fillmore is a duo of audio landscapers. Glenn Kotche, the drummer from Wilco, and bassist Darin Gray use tuned percussion, acoustic bass, and assorted odds and ends to create soundscapes that are sometimes enveloping and sometimes discordant. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Lisa Gerrard - An Icon of Echoes The voice of Dead Can Dance and numerous film scores like Gladiator, Lisa Gerrard channels spirits in a supralingua dialect of the imagination. Through 25 years of interviews, we look back on the music of this iconic, and iconoclastic artist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Bruce Kaphan Bruce Kaphan put the ambient in ambient Americana with his album Slider. Ten years later he returns with a new CD of pedal steel guitar melodies called Hybrid. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Dave Eggar Cellist and pianist Dave Eggar is a complicated musician who does session work for practically everyone, and has released albums from new age piano to sublime chamber works. His latest album finds him exploring Reggae music. Dave Eggar talks about music from Messiaen to Marley. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Steve Hackett When you mention guitar gods, Steve Hackett should be right in the thick of it. Coming to renown with the progressive rock group Genesis, Hackett's solo career is marked by expansive, dramatic compositions and solos that make him the Sultan of Sustain. At a triumphal performance at NEARfest 2010, we talk with Hackett about his music past and present. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Laurie Anderson We go into Laurie Anderson's Manhattan studio where the iconoclastic artist talks about her latest work, Homeland, a meditation on life's passage and politics. Critics are calling it her best work since Big Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Dave Bainbridge Guitarist Dave Bainbridge is best known for his work as founder of the Celtic progressive rock group, Iona. On his own and with Uilleann piper Troy Donockley, he sculpts meditative improvisations in cathedrals and expansively orchestrated studio works. We talk to him about a sound born in faith. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Afrocelt Sound System - Icons of Echoes Afro Celt Sound System has contributed some of the defining sounds of Echoes with their mixture of African, Eastern, and Irish music, coupled with electronic grooves and moods. We look back at the energy-charged world fusion of this band. Echoes listeners voted them number 15 of 20 Icons of Echoes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Bluetech Acclaimed downtempo electronic composer Bluetech gets his dub thing going on a new CD called Love Songs To the Source. Bluetech talks about his new electro-Jamaican Jams. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Robert Rich - An Icon of Echoes We look back on the career of electronic composer Robert Rich, whose techno-tribal music and ambient dreamscapes reflect the state of the art in organic electronic music. Echoes lisyeners voted him number 14 of 20 Icons of Echoes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Hungry Lucy We hear ghost stories from Hungry Lucy. They're an electronica duo from Ohio who take their name from a horror tale and take their music from the interior dreams of singer Christa Belle and electronic artist Warren Harrison. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Spyra Wolfram Spyra is a German electronic artist who falls between the early space music of Klaus Schulze and the modern dance music of techno. He started as an avant-garde sound installation artist before turning to space music and techno. We hear the story of a 3rd generation space musician with Spyra. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Kaki King She started out as a two-handed tapping, acoustic finger-style phenomenon, but over the last decade, Kaki King has remolded herself as a punky singer-songwriter wailing on electric guitar. We talk about her evolution and new CD, Junior. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Michael Hedges - An Icon of Echoes Michael Hedges died in 1997, but he remains the most revolutionary acoustic guitarist of the last 30 years. His records on Windham Hill remain as standards of captivating composition married to two-handed tapping and other innovative techniques. Michael appeared on Echoes several times. We look back on his words and music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu Jazz guitarist Ralph Towner from the group Oregon and Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu talk about their unique and intimate meeting born in intuitive interplay and improvisation on their ECM album, Chiaroscuro. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Sounds From The Ground Veteran English electronic duo Sounds from the Ground has just released new music, reissues and lost tracks. We revisit our interview with a band who create a sampledelic mix of chilled sounds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Vangelis - An Icon of Echoes The Greek synthesist Vangelis has been recording for over four decades, creating symphonic electronic orchestrations and dark ambient expanses. His work includes the films Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner and epic albums like Albedo 0.39 and Oceanic. As number 11 of 20 Icons of Echoes, we hear the Greek electronic giant talk about his career. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Time for Three Interview - Time for Three. Their name is a little awkward, but their music is anything but, as this young string trio, playing violins and bass talk about their eclectic backgrounds and a music that goes from Arvo Part to Orange Blossom Special. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Scott August Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Moby - An Icon of Echoes It's one of 20 Icons of Echoes when we profile Moby. He looks back on his career from his techno-rave daze to his album Play and his latest, Wait for Me. For our 20th Anniversary, listeners voted Moby the 9th of 20 Icons of Echoes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - All India Radio It's a transmission from All India Radio. They're not from India, though. They're a band from Australia that makes global ambient music full of Americana touches and inviting atmospheres. We talk long distance to All India Radio operator Martin Kennedy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature -International Guitar Night 2010 Four virtuoso guitarists from Germany, Israel and America talk about a convergence of finger-style guitar approaches. We speak with Brian Gore, Stephen Bennett, Lulo Reinhardt and Itamar Erez of International Guitar Night 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Loreena McKennitt - An Icon of Echoes We survey the music of Canadian singer-songwriter Loreena McKennitt, a musician who has moved from folky Celtic harp music to global extravaganzas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Arc - Mark Shrieve and Ian Boddy - in the Echoes Chamber Mark Shreeve and Ian Boddy step into the Echoes Chamber. These two British synthesists, members of Arc, hear electronic sounds from the past and present. While they try to guess the artists, they also place them in the orbit of their own music in a conversation with John Diliberto. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Kevin Keller Ambient chamber music composer Kevin Keller's In Absentia is a study in finely calibrated emotions dealing with the disappearance and likely death of his father-in-law. Keller talks about crafting this chamber music in his New York bedroom studio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton and Will Clipman It's a study in intuitive improvisation and southwestern soundscaping when R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton and Will Clipman talk about their new CD, Dancing into Silence. Its serene performances are born from three musicians completely in tune. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Tangerine Dream - An Icon of Echoes Bands are still borrowing from the sounds created by Tangerine Dream in the 1970s. We look back on over 40 years of space music from this German electronic band, which Echoes listeners voted one of 20 Icons of Echoes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - William Ackerman - An Icon of Echoes All he did was found Windham Hill Records and jump-start the finger-style guitar renaissance. We look back at the career of guitarist Will Ackerman, one of 20 Icons of Echoes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Kori Linae Carothers Pianist Kori Linae Carothers talks about her intimate chamber music, her recent CD Trillium, and playing with guitarist Will Ackerman and flugelhornist Jeff Oster. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Pat Metheny's Orchestrion Acclaimed jazz guitarist Pat Metheny plugs to the Orchestrion, a massive instrument based on the old player piano orchestrations of yore. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Michael Spriggs Nashville guitarist Michael Spriggs talks about his evolution from country picking to ambient Americana with his album Neurasenia, our Echoes CD of the Month from December. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Kronos Quartet In the world of string quartets there is before and after Kronos, the ensemble that revolutionized the form, playing new music from Steve Reich to Sigur Ros. We talk with founder David Harrington about Kronos past and present. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Jon Hopkins He's a collaborator with Brian Eno, played with Imogen Heap and is all over the last Coldplay album. On his own, Jon Hopkins makes a lyrical, glitch-strewn music based in acoustic piano. We talk with him about battered uprights and Kaos Pads. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - 20 Icons for 20 Years of Echoes - Patrick O'Hearn We continue our journey through 20 Echoes Icons with Patrick O'Hearn, a composer, keyboardist and bassist who has been making organically beautiful instrumental music since his 1985 debut, Ancient Dreams. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze An African griot meets a German jazz trumpeter when Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze talk about their unlikely and serenely beautiful collaboration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes feature - New Americana Americana is a genre that usually refers to rustic music with roots in heartland sounds from folk, blues and country. In 2009, Americana emerged in some unusual locations on Echoes, including jazz, the avant-garde and electronica. John Diliberto's top three albums for 2009 are all dipping into a new stream of 21st century Americana. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Robin Guthrie His followers are legion. His layered, delayed and reverbed guitar sound instantly recognizable. Robin Guthrie talks about music after the Cocteau Twins, his influential 80s band and his new album, Carousel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Anna Schaad Anna Schaad is a musician steeped in fantasy and besotted by her Navy pilot husband. They both inform her dramatic and evocative music on the album, Dream Within A Dream. Anna Schaad talks about her inspirations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - 20 Icons for 20 years of Echoes - Steve Roach Listeners voted Steve Roach as number two of 20 Icons for 20 Years of Echoes. We'll look back at one of the most influential electronic artists of the last 30 years. From his CDs Structures from Silence to Dreamtime Return and Destination Beyond, Roach's music has been a touchstone of modern ambient and techno-tribal music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Gong It's been 40 years since Daevid Allen convened his space gypsy rock band Gong which influenced everyone from Ozric Tentacles to Steve Roach. Allen and guitarist Steve Hillage talk about the daze of Gong. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Baaba Maal S Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Donna DeLory Singer Donna DeLory talks about life in a post-Madonna world as the former back-up singer continues on her path of spiritual pop and mantra chants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Urban Nature Urban Nature is the duo of guitarist Todd Boston and percussionist Ramesh Kannan. They're updating the East-West fusion of John McLaughlin's Shakti, adding looping electronics to their already diverse sound. We talk to these two musicians about their album, Coming Home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - 20 Icons for 20 Years of Echoes - Brian Eno Echoes is featuring 20 Icons of Echoes, to celebrate 20 years of Echoes. When we asked the listeners to vote, Brian Eno easily topped the listener poll. Hear why when we profile the iconoclastic and influential musician. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Phil Keaggy and Jeff Johnson - Frio Suite Keyboardist Jeff Johnson and legendary guitarist Phil Keaggy collaborate on a tone poem to the Frio river. It mixes multiple guitars and keyboard textures into one of the most perfect albums of the year. It's the Echoes CD of the Month for October. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Carmen Rizzo and Huun Huur Tuu Huun Huur Tu is a band from Tuva specializing in the ancient style of harmonic singing that comes from that region. Their music is combined with the electronics and arrangements of Carmen Rizzo, known for his work with Niyaz, Inbar Bakal and his own electronica recordings. It's a meeting of cultures when they come together. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Chris Bocast Chris Bocast is a journeyman guitarist who plays ambient guitar. When he was living in Colorado, he teamed up with MJ Catalin, a Romanian drummer and electronic musician. The two have never met, but they create a virtual ensemble ambient sound on their album, Stratagem, which was our Echoes CD of the Month for August. Chris Bocast talks about his internet music collaboration Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Rena Jones 2009 There are a lot of looping, electric cellists out there, but Rena Jones is one of the few who is also orchestrating her own electronica backings, creating patterns of rhythms, glitches and ambient moods. Her previous album, Driftwood, was an Echoes favorite and her latest, Indra's Web, follows suit. We get tangled up with Rena Jones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Banco de Gaia 2009 It was 20 years ago that Toby Marks and Andy Guthrie formed Banco De Gaia, an ambient oscillation that has fused techno and ethnic music, psychedelic moods and ambient designs. Only Toby Marks remains and he's just released a double CD called Memories, Dreams, Reflections that features cover versions of songs that influenced him by Pink Floyd and King Crimson, classic Banco tracks revisited, and live performances. Toby Marks looks back at 20 years of edgy bliss. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Harold Budd and Clive Wright Harold Budd had never heard of Cock Robin or their guitarist, Clive Wright. And Clive Wright had never heard of pianist Harold Budd. But when Budd moved out into the desert spaces of Joshua Tree, California, where the English-born Wright had lived for years, they got together for a pair of albums that match Budd's spacious melodic sensibilities and Wright's deep reverb ambiences. We hear about their desert reveries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Ben Neill Ben Neill is the sole player of an instrument called the Mutantrumpet. It has three different bells, two sets of valves, a mini-trombone slide and electronics. Neill deploys this contraption in electronica forays full of morphing rhythms and melodies that shift through timbral voices as if they were injected into a kaleidoscope. Ben Neill has been playing the mutantrumpet for about two decades and he talks about his latest moves in an album called Night Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Karda Estra Karda Estra is the recording persona of English composer Richard Wileman. He started out as a rocker but veered into composing classical works for chamber ensembles and electric guitar. His imagery tends to be gothic and his music dramatic. We'll talk to him about a sound that falls between progressive rock and classical cracks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Bear McCreary - Battlestar Galactica Battlestar Galactica was one of the most sophisticated science fiction shows on television and Bear McCreary composed a soundtrack to match. It's a score based on acoustic instruments, and very traditional ones at that. The fourth season soundtrack has just been released on CD. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Inbar Bakal Inbar Bakal is an Israeli singer born of Yemeni and Iraqi parents. Her music, composed with producer and Niyaz member Carmen Rizzo, is a fusion of global grooves and electronic moods, all topped by her sensual voice. Inbar and Carmen talk about their collaboration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - John Luther Adams It was John Cage who suggested that music was always in the air, and John Luther Adams has been tapping that sound for over 30 years. His evocative, atmospheric and sometimes stormy compositions evoke his longtime home in Fairbanks, Alaska. We talk with the noted composer about his life and his permanent ambient installation, The Place Where You Go To Listen, where music is triggered by seismic, magnetic and cosmological events. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Loner Loner is the recording persona of Geoff Smith, an English singer-songwriter with a penchant for introspective moods, haiku-like lyrics, and songs that linger in your mind like a lost lover. In his London flat, he's composed two CDs filled with melancholy moods. His latest is called Western Sci Fi. Geoff Smith talks about the solitude of Loner. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Bill Frisell Bill Frisell is not only one of the best guitarists of our age, but one of the most conceptual. Since his 1983 debut on ECM, he's charted a singular course, mixing country ambience and electronic distortion, weaving together music from Aaron Copland to Madonna, plus his own originals. He's a guitarist's guitarist, a musician's musician and he talks with us about his music, on Echoes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Rhian Sheehan Rhian Sheehan is a composer from New Zealand who gets to a place of exultant stillness on his CD, Standing in Silence. It's an album born from isolation and innocence. He rummages through his daughter's toy box, emerging with xylophones and music boxes that he electronically deconstructs and weaves into arrangements for electronics and ambient guitar, making the music itself sound like a lost artifact plucked from the dust and silence of another culture. From New Zealand, we talk with Rhian ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Moby - part 2 Moby has made his most personal album yet. It's called Wait for Me and it's a CD of deep textures, soulful ruminations and unexpected turns. Moby says - It's really designed for one listener. It's not designed for a party, it's not designed for 20 people in a bar or night club to listen to. It's for someone lying in bed Sunday morning 9 o'clock when it's raining outside. We go inside Wait for Me when we talk with Moby. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Moby - part 1 In the first of two interviews we talk with Moby about his career that has taken him from the disco dance floors of New York City to an avatar of electronic music that has found favor in the pop charts, on films and in commercials. Moby takes us from his days as the man behind many pseudonyms to his latest album, Wait for Me. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Matthew Schoening Matthew Schoening is in the second generation of looping cellists. He plays an instrument that looks like an electric stick, but it sounds like a string orchestra when he layers it in real time performance. Schoening talks about his journey from lapsed cellist to sound technician and back into the new world of music making. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Mellodrama The Mellotron was the sound of progressive rock and space music in the 1970s. Before digital synthesizers, it was an instrument that played back the sounds of orchestras, choirs, and more. It generated the grandeur of The Moody Blues, Tangerine Dream, King Crimson and many others. In her new documentary Mellodrama, director Dianna Dilworth has chronicled the birth of the Mellotron, going back to the late 1940s and the Chamberlin keyboard. We talk to her about these instruments and their epi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Mono Mono doesn't take its name from the audio configuration. This band is in full, glorious stereo, but they have a singular focus on making an orchestral rock guitar music that owes as much to Explosions in the Sky as Arvo Part. We talk with Mono founder, guitarist Takaakira Goto, about his dynamic music heard on the CD, Hymn to the Immortal Wind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Ray Montford Ray Montford is one of those chameleon guitarists who can play just about anything, but on his latest album, A Fragile Balance, he creates and ambient Americana that's like a meeting of Pink Floyd and Ry Cooder. We talk to this gifted musician about his long career in the music trenches and music that touches the sky. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Leo Abrahams Leo Abrahams is a guitarist who can pluck a plaintive acoustic guitar melody and turn around to mutate his guitar into an ambient abstraction. A sideman with Brian Eno, this ambient accomplice heads for the pastoral side on his CD, The Grape and the Grain. With elements of Americana and English folk music, he creates a lyric recording that's like a soundtrack for the harvest. Leo Abrahams talks about his music on Echoes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Mark Dwane Mark Dwane has been a fixture on Echoes since his debut album, The Monuments of Mars. The signposts of Mark's music are expansive, cinematic melodies, propulsive grooves and chordal sweeps that send you careening into space. His albums often have mythic and sci-fi themes, including his latest album, Other Worlds. Although he has been played on Echoes from the beginning and had CDs of the Month selections, this is Mark's first Echoes interview. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Wendy and Lisa Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman came to renown in Prince's 1980s band, The Revolution, helping him compose the music on albums like Purple Rain. But the duo has been on their own for more than 20 years and can now be heard on the soundtracks for TV shows like Crossing Jordan, Nurse Jackie, and Heroes. Wendy and Lisa talk about the music of Heroes and their new album, White Flags of Winter Chimneys. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Morgan Doctor Morgan Doctor is a world music percussionist who's as likely to play Indian tabla drums in a Kirtan session with Durga Das as mount the stage with The Cliks, a Canadian power-punk band. On her second solo album, Other Life, she creates imagery-laden journeys colored with Indian instruments and ambient designs. We talk with Morgan Doctor about her Other Life on Echoes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Antoine Dufour Canadian guitarist Antoine DuFour is a fingerstyle guitarist with a wide dynamic range who deploys his formidable guitar techniques across several albums including his latest, Existence. He started acoustic guitar playing while listening to his father's progressive rock albums. Dufour gives us a master class in the techniques of modern fingerstyle guitar Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Mandrake Project The Mandrake Project is a collective of musicians that is making progressive rock for the modern world. On their latest album, A Miraculous Container, they merge elements of world music, electronica, virtuoso playing and compositions that sometimes echo Arvo Part meeting Radiohead. The Mandrake Project includes veterans of the Pittsburgh music scene and a violinist from the Polyphonic Spree. They reveal the secrets of the Mandrake Project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - The Beyman Brothers Christopher Guest is best known for film parodies like A Mighty Wind, Best of Show and most notably, This is Spinal Tap where he plays Nigel Tufnel in the wasted heavy metal band of the title. You might think The Beyman Brothers were a parody as well, but Guest, who is a serious musician, has teamed up with childhood friend David Nichtern of Drala and "Midnight at the Oasis" fame and longtime music collaborator CJ Vanston to create an album of evocative world chamber folk music called Memor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Morgan Doctor - Echo Location Morgan Doctor is one of those musicians who finds herself between worlds. The music on her new solo album, Other Life, is marked by imagery laden instrumental journeys colored with Indian instruments and ambient designs. She's a world music percussionist who's just as likely to play Indian tabla drums in a Kirtan session with Durga Das as mount the stage with the rock band The Cliks. Her album is Other Life, and she creates other music, falling well between the cracks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - David Darling There aren't too many instrumental albums that will cite political journalist Amy Goodman in the acknowledgments. David Darling has created a post-Bush meditation of chamber cello orchestrations called Prayer for Compassion. We go to the lair of the lord of largo who takes us into the deep and layered world of his music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Steve Roach and Erik Wollo Steve Roach and Erik Wollo are contemporaries from opposite sides of the world and opposite ends of the thermometer. But after three decades of mutual admiration, they got together to collaborate on an expansive CD that took both musicians out of their comfort zones and into new terrain. We connect these artists over transcontinental space to hear their Stream of Thought. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Roger O'Donnell Roger O'Donnell spent the better part of his career as keyboardist with moody rockers The Cure during their heyday in the 1980s and 90s. But now that he's out on his own, he's traded rock stardom for retro-electronic music played almost exclusively on the Moog Voyager synthesizer. O'Donnell talks about his personal electronic music on his latest CD, Songs from the Silver Box. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Erik Scott He's played with Alice Cooper, Flo and Eddie and was a charter member of Sonia Dada. But when he sat in his home north of Chicago all by himself, bassist Erik Scott came up with an introspective, all-instrumental album that showed what the electric bass can do in the service of evocative compositions. His album is called Other Planets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Bill Bruford Bill Bruford is the drummer's drummer. He came to renown with progressive rockers Yes, changed perceptions of percussion with several stints in King Crimson and then turned away from rock with his own brainy jazz group, Earthworks. Now he's announced his retirement and dropped a biting tome, "Bill Bruford: The Autobiography" that talks about life on the road and the changing shape of music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Jon Hassell Jon Hassell's latest album is called "Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street," a title taken from a 13th century poem by Rumi. Mixing laptops, layered compositions, and live sound processing, it often sounds like Miles Davis meeting Arvo Part, tuning in signals from space. We talk with Jon Hassell about Fourth World music in the 21st Century. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Rokia Traore From Mali comes Rokia Traore, a singer-songwriter whose lyrics are in her native Bamama tongue but whose songs speak a universal language through her sensual, smokey voice. We talk with her about her new album, Tchamantche that moves through deep meditations and joyous hymns. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Stomu Yamash'ta One of the often overlooked figures of progressive rock is Japanese composer Stomu Yamash'ta. In the 1970s, Yamash'ta played with Stevie Winwood, Al Di Meola and Klaus Schulze. Many of his seminal albums have just been reissued. We travel back to Taidokoju Temple for a meditation with Stomu Yamash'ta. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Make your own Ambient Music We explore a couple of new programs for the computer and iPod that let you make your own ambient dreamscapes. One is the Buddha Machine and the other is Brian Eno's Bloom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Kaya Project Seb Taylor is a musician of many guises, recording under the names Hibernation, Shakta, and Digitalis. But his most fertile persona has been as Kaya Project with his partner, Natasha Chamberlain. Their third full-length album, And So It Goes, expands on the merger of ethno-electronica with world music exotica. Taylor talks about mixing global musicians with his own electronics and slide guitar in a world music of the imagination. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Johann Johannsson Johann Johannsson's CD Fordlandia was one of the most haunting albums of 2008 with its deep ambient chamber music designs. From his home in Reykjavik, Johannsson talks about music that explores the philosophical ramifications of IBM computers from the 1960s and the failed totalitarian utopia of Fordlandia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Johann Agebjorn Johan Agebjorn is a musician who lives in two worlds connected by electronic wires. With a project called Sally Shapiro, he makes smooth electronic dance music. Under his own name, he explores ambient sounds, environmental spaces and gothic tinged melodies. Agebjorn talks about his snow shrouded sound. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - John Gregorius John Gregorius is a finger-style guitarist who places his instrument in ambient soundscapes on his album, Heaven and Earth, our December CD of the Month. He has played rock and roll, but he merges Windham Hill-style acoustics with Steve Tibbetts-style landscaping. John Gregorius talks about his guitar journey, which includes the Christian imagery that suffuses his music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Saul Stokes In another time, say the 1950s or 60s, Saul Stokes might have been considered an experimental composer, constructing his own instruments, creating random events, bypassing conventional musical form. But rarely has an experimental composer made music as haunting and soulful as that heard on his new CD, Villa Galaxia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Celtic Christmas Music Celtic music and Christmas go together as well as The Messiah by Handel and Christmas. If you want to tap into that contemplative, fireplace, snowflakes and Christmas tree mood, there is nothing like a good Celtic aire to get you there. John Diliberto looks at new releases from Enya, Loreena McKennitt and Aine Minogue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Sundad John Eurell Senior was a rock and roll guitarist who hung up his axe to get on with life when he started playing acoustic guitar with his son, John Junior. For the last several years, they've been playing as Sundad mixing twin acoustic guitars in the spirit of fusion artists like John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola. John Jr. and Sr. talk about coming together on music while at different points in their lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Dean De Benedictis A lot of instrumental players decide they want to be singers, but usually, that means they start writing songs with words. Dean De Benedictis, who has recorded several electronic albums under his own name and as Surface 10, has gone another way. He's using his voice to make electronic music. On his album, A Cambient Variations, all the sounds come from his voice, but he layers, loops and processes that voice into an ambient dreamscape. Dean De Benedictis opens his mouth and talks about sing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - R Carlos Nakai in the Echoes Chamber R. Carlos Nakai put the Native American flute on the map and he's taken it to places no one could have ever expected, from canyons to concert halls, world fusions to electric excursions. He sits down in the darkness of the Echoes Chamber where host John Diliberto plays him music, including people who may have influenced him, and artists he has influenced. Join R. Carlos Nakai in the Echoes Chamber as he tries to identify music on the wind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Marcin Wasilewski Trio The Marcin Wasilewski Trio are just barely old enough to remember communist rule in Poland, but to them, jazz represented freedom. They express that freedom in intuitive, and often introspective improvisations that play with colors as much as notes. We talk to these three musicians who have been playing together since they were teenagers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Sumner McKane For several years, guitarist Sumner McKane has been releasing albums of evocative soundscapes dipped in Americana as cinematic as a John Ford western and as nuanced as an Andrew Wyeth painting. But McKane's landscapes are tinged in ambient atmospheres and pulled by an undertow of psychedelia that makes it some of the most unassumingly mind-bending music of the decade. In his home north of Portland, Maine, Sumner McKane takes us through the photo album of his latest CD - What A Great Place t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter are best known for playing the Celtic harp, but that doesn't quite convey what happened when they got together on the album, Two Worlds One. Besides their harps, they pulled out violin, bandura, bouzouki, guitar and more, creating enhanced duets on original songs and traditional tunes from Scandinavia. Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter take us on a journey where two worlds and two hearts became one. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Vic Hennegan Artists like Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze did have musical children and among them is a musician named Vic Hennegan. He makes a music born of technology and reveling in spacious rhythms and layered timbres. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Bombay Dub Orchestra Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Rudy Perrone Rudy Perrone is a guitarist from Long Island who played progressive rock with a band called Cathedral and explored solo music as an acoustic player. His CD, The Language of Spirits, was produced by Windham Hill Records founder and guitarist, Will Ackerman. Rudy Perrone talks about his journey from prog rock to idyllic acoustics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Fernwood Fernwood is a group that's hard to pin down. They mix Americana elements with Appalachian strings along with bouzoukis from the Middle East and Ireland and sitars from India. Headed up by Todd Montgomery and Gayle Ellett who also plays guitar in the ultra-progressive rock band, Djam Karet, Fernwood creates a global chamber music with Americana accents and cinematically inclined melodies. Fernwood talks about music made on wooden instruments, on Echoes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Jesse Cook Jesse Cook was among a wave of flamenco inspired guitarists who came along in the wake of Ottmar Liebert's Nouveau Flamenco. But he's risen above the crowd with a combination of charismatic showmanship and melodically driven tunes. Jesse comes to the Echoes studio with his band to talk about life after children and turning a Bob Dylan tune into a Rhumba. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Lights Out Asia They aren't from Asia, but this Milwaukee trio is making an exotic brand of post-rock music merged with ambient aesthetics. They layer guitars, keyboards, drums and electronics in cinematic landscapes that have a heroic sound despite some foreboding titles like Radars Over the Ghosts of Chernobyl. We talk to these architects of ambient rock about roots that go from shoegazer rock to New Age music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Al Di Meola - In the Echoes Chamber Al Di Meola came to renown with Chick Corea's Return to Forever, garnered his own fame with a string of signature fusion albums, and then returned to acoustic guitar for world fusions and tango dances. In the midst of his reunion tour with Return to Forever, AL Di Meola stepped into the Echoes Chamber, where he talked about music from those who influenced him and those he influenced. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Near the Parenthesis Near The Parenthesis is the performance name of Tim Arndt. He's a musician who mixes melodic piano lines with glitchy electronics and moody atmospheres. We go between the parentheses to find out the points and asides of his music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Juno Reactor Juno Reactor is a techno-ambient collective centered on Ben Watkins. He began as a more conventional techno-composer but has expanded his sound considerably to include flamenco guitars, Latin Chants and heavy metal thunder. In recent years he's composed music for the Matrix films. Ben Watkins talks about his own music matrix. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Ronn McFarlane Ronn McFarlane plays impeccable early music with the Baltimore Consort, but when he wasn't playing music from Renaissance masters like Anonymous, he was writing his own music which uses contemporary guitar playing techniques and a melodic sensibility that's more cinematic than baroque. Ronn McFarlane talks about his new music for lute on his CD Indigo Road Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - John Cage - Thoughts in Sound JOHN CAGE - IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES Few contemporary composers had the influence of John Cage. From experimental music to minimalism, Brian Eno to George Winston, echoes of John Cage continue to resound to this day, more than 6 decades after his "Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano" were first published. John Cage was a conceptualist of sound who turned even silence into music as he did with his famous piece, 4 minutes and 33 seconds. John Cage died in August of 1992. but we hear his t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Alex De Grassi in the Echoes Chamber Alex De Grassi was among a handful of guitarists who defined finger-style playing in the 1970s and 80s. We put Alex under the headphones and play him music sight unseen as he identifies contemporaries, influences and musical progeny. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Ozric Tentacles Ozric Tentacles grew out of 1980s rave culture in England, but they took their cues from the 70s psychedelic space music of Gong more than the thump of techno. Headed up by Ed Wynne, a classic guitar hero with a spacescape mind, they've released several albums and toured relentlessly since they formed at Stonehenge in 1984. Ed and bassist-synthesist Brandi Wynne take us on a trip through the world of Ozric Tentacles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Ludovico Einaudi Italian composer Luciano Berio was an icon of 20th century avant-garde music standing alongside John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Ludovico Einaudi studied with Berio but took a different path towards consonant music and a lush harmonic language that is folk-like in its simplicity. We talk to him about his ambient chamber music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Penguin Cafe Orchestra He scored the strings for the Sid Vicious rendition of the song My Way and hung out with Brian Eno, but Simon Jeffes is best known for his idiosyncratic and influential chamber group, The Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Simon Jeffes died in 1997 but his CDs are all being reissued. We revisit an interview with this pioneering composer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Alu Alu is a Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter, who creates ambient soundscapes for her songs of lost innocence, cultural ennui and interior dialogues. With a voice that sounds like Kate Bush in a cabaret, Alu sings of casket salesmen, circus cosmos and buzzin' brains that populate her captivating fantasy stories. We talk about her sophomore album, Lobotomy Sessions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - AES DANA AND SOLAR FIELDS Ultimae is a boutique French label that's turning into the ECM Records of downtempo and ambient music. Run by Vincent Villuis, who also records as Aes Dana, it's creating a unique identity in the faceless digital age. We talk to Vincent Villuis, his partner, Sunbeam, and Magnus Birgersson of Solar Fields about life in the downtempo zone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Kevin Bartlett Kevin Bartlett is a mutant guitarist who wrestles unearthly sounds and siren calls from his electric instrument. A devotee of progressive rock like Genesis and Mike Oldfield, he's created a progressive opus on his second outing called Glow in the Dark. Kevin Bartlett illuminates his music in an Echoes interview. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Return to Forever AN INTERVIEW WITH RETURN TO FOREVER. In the 1970s, Chick Corea's Return to Forever was among the Gods of Fusion. The classic version of that band has gotten back together for a reunion tour. Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke return to the birth of fusion when they talk about Return to Forever then and now on Echoes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Biomusique AN INTERVIEW WITH BIOMUSIQUE Biomusique is a new group, but the musicians in it have been making challenging music for years. Lisbeth Scott is the singer from State of Grace and numerous soundtracks including the Narnia films. Greg Ellis was the percussion half of the Persian fusion duo Vas. The two artists get together on a series of meditations for voice and global atmospheres that take them into new and intimate terrain. They bring us with them to the spirit behind The 10,000 Steps. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Sasha AN INTERVIEW WITH SASHA Welsh born electronic composer Sasha is one of the early figures of ambient house and rave culture. He mentored musicians like BT and he's recently put out a new collection of remixes that includes his epic soundtrack to the surf film, New Emissions of Light and Sound. Sasha lights us up on Echoes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - The Orb AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ORB It's been 17 years since The Orb unleashed Little Fluffy Clouds on the world and opened the door for groups like the Future Sound of London, Loop Guru and DJ Spooky. Original Orb members Alex Paterson and Youth get back together on a new CD of hallucinogenic grooves and surreal landscapes called The Dream. The Orb talks about their sample and slice journey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Gooding AN INTERVIEW WITH GOODING Gooding is a hard rock guitarist by night with his group, The Angel Devil, but by day he finds a more impressionistic instrumental side where he's often playing acoustic guitar over electronic backings. His albums have a charming retro design with family portraits and titles like Clap If You Love Vampires. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - The Ahn Trio The members of the Ahn Trio are the only musicians selected in People Magazine's 50 most beautiful people list who have ever been played on Echoes. But in between photo shoots, the Ahn Trio have been creating a modern chamber music that draws from contemporary classical composers like Kenji Bunch to canny covers of songs by Astor Piazzolla, David Bowie and Michael Nyman. We talk to this trio of Seoul sisters about their impeccable music and the dreamy atmospheres of their latest CD, Lullaby ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Touched by Eno Musicians who weren't even born when Brian Eno recorded his seminal albums have been touched by his music. Artists from across genres, from pop to avant-garde, African to Asian, have found their music shaped by Eno, sometimes directly, often as a life-changing influence. On Brian Eno's 60th birthday, we hear from some of them including Harold Budd, Loop Guru's Dave Muddyman, David Toop, BT and Bluetech. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Brian Eno Profile Brian Eno celebrates his 60th birthday this week. Rarely has an artist made such a monumental impact on modern music with such subtlety. As part of a week long celebration of Eno's music, we look back at his career with interviews from Eno, Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera, and members of Bang on A Can. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - DJ Spooky - Sound Unbound The New York sampling savant talks about his new book, Sound Unbound. DJ Spooky is one of the leading conceptualists of sampling culture. He doesn't play a conventional instrument, but mixes matches, slices and distorts sounds from other recordings into his own elaborate soundscapes. In his new book, Sound Unbound, DJ Spooky, a.k.a. Paul D. Miller, assembles essays from Steve Reich, Brian Eno, Jaron Lanier and more, revealing the sonic contours of digital culture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Jon Hassell in the Echoes Chamber ON HASSELL ENTERS THE ECHOES CHAMBER Jon Hassell created fourth world music and is one of the most influential musicians of the last 40 years - just ask Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno or Ry Cooder. We beam music into Jon's headphones as he reveals the links from his past to his future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Balmorhea AN INTERVIEW WITH BALMORHEA Balmorhea is a quartet of musicians that should probably be playing rock and roll, and in their own fashion, they might be. Using acoustic guitars, piano, violin and cello, they orchestrate a haunting, pastoral sound tinged by country and born out of the landscapes of Texas Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Nik Bartsch's Ronin AN INTERVIEW WITH NIK BARTSCH'S RONIN Nik Bartsch's Ronin brings a Zen balance to elliptical orbits tied to minimalist designs in a heady, but inviting sound. It's jazz by reference, but not by definition. We talk to Nik Bartsch about 36 hour concerts and Zen-funk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Gustavo Santaolalla AN INTERVIEW WITH GUSTAVO SANTAOLALLA: BREAKING THE HOLLYWOOD SOUNDTRACK FORMULA. In his Los Angeles homes, Argentine born composer Gustavo Santaolalla talks about his film scores for movies like Brokeback Mountain, Babel and Amores Perros. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Holger Czukay HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY HOLGER CZUKAY Before the age of digital samplers and music computers, Holger Czukay was cutting and pasting sounds pulled off radio broadcasts, shortwave, and anywhere else he could find them and manipulating them into audio landscapes. He was a founding member of the seminal German group Can, a student of Karlheinz Stockhausen and a collaborator with David Sylvian, Brian Eno and Jah Wobble. We celebrate his 70th birthday and listen to some of his sonic collages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - James Blackshaw AN INTERVIEW WITH JAMES BLACKSHAW James Blackshaw is a young English finger-style guitar who has roots in the rustic avant-garde Americana of John Fahey, but he's finding his own sound, one that looks to Indian and new classical music as much as folk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Jack Rose AN INTERVIEW WITH JACK ROSE Jack Rose takes us to the outer edges of the acoustic guitar. Rose played in the avant-garde rock group Pelt before setting off on a solo guitar path that's part John Fahey and part something you've never heard before. We'll hear this idiosyncratic musician talk about his journey on Echoes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Mico Nonet AN INTERVIEW WITH MICO NONET: Combining vintage pre-digital synthesizers and symphonic instruments, Mico Nonet creates music that whispers at the edges of consciousness, where electronic and acoustic sounds converge as one. We talk with Joshua Kramer, cellist Efe Baltacigil and French horn player Paul Lafollette about their Mico Nonet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - David Belmont AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID BELMONT: David Belmont was a normal guitar player until he heard the Paul Butterfield Band's East West. That set him on a course of Indian inflected finger-style guitar playing that he expands into his Windwater Ensemble. David Belmont talks about his guitar odyssey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - David Arkenstone DAVID ARKENSTONE'S SECRET SOURCES - David Arkenstone is a noted multi-instrumentalist with dozens of albums out on Narada and Windham Hill Records that explore a symphonic style of music with fantasy imagery. In his southern California home, he comments on music that formed his sound, from progressive rock to Celtic music and beyond. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Demania AN INTERVIEW WITH DEMANIA: Demania is an acronym for the three musicians in the band, finger style virtuoso Alex De Grassi, electric bass demon Michael Manring and tabla player Chris Garcia. On their own, each musician can create an ensemble of sound. Together, they play a world fusion that harkens back to John McLaughlin's Shakti. We talk to them about their eclectic approach to improvised world fusion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Shulman AN INTERVIEW WITH SHULMAN: Shulman is an electronic duo mixing sounds from the middle east into the circuitry of their laptop computers. Israel is more war zone than chill zone, but Shulman finds an inner serenity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Ulrich Schnauss in the Echoes Chamber AN INTERVIEW WITH ULRICH SCHNAUSS: Ulrich Schnauss is a German electronic artist who takes his forbears like Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk and keys that sound into contemporary electro rhythms, a bit of new wave shoegazer romanticism, and melodies that have the infinite, never-ending sound of a Pachelbel Canon. Ulrich Schnauss steps into the darkness of the Echoes Chamber to comment on the sources of his sound. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - R Carlos Nakai and Udi Bar-David AN INTERVIEW WITH R CARLOS NAKAI AND UDI BAR-DAVID: R. Carlos Nakai is the noted Native American flute player who has never found a cultural collaboration he couldn't make his own. Udi Bar-David is the Israeli-born cellist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Together, they recorded the album Voyagers. They come by to talk about the global concepts behind their intimate music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Deva Premal and Miten AN INTERVIEW WITH DEVA PREMAL AND MITEN: Deva Premal is one of the original modern chant Divas. She intones Hindu chants in her silken, air brushed voice over the trans-Indian arrangements of her longtime partner, Miten. We talk with them about chant in the modern world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Melanie Hutton and Marshall Lefferts AN INTERVIEW WITH MELANIE HUTTON AND MARSHALL LEFFERTS: Melanie Hutton and Marshall Lefferts work in a slipstream of global fusion that includes Dead Can Dance, Vas and Peter Gabriel. Hammered dulcimer player Hutton sings in a personal glossolalia, Lefferts is a guitarist with a penchant for Frank Zappa and eastern exotica. They got together on the album, Mystery of Souls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Nucultures AN INTERVIEW WITH NUCULTURES: AVANT-ROCKERS IN AN AMBIENT LOUNGE Nucultures is a band put together by veteran Philadelphia avant-rocker and guitarist, Tim Motzer. With his wife, singer Ellie Perez and bassist Barry Meehan, they've created a sophisticated and intoxicating take on electro-lounge music. In their basement studio, NuCultures reveal the quirk and work behind their debut album, Butterflies, Zebras and Moonbeams. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Qntal AN INTERVIEW WITH QNTAL: MEDIEVAL ROCK FROM GERMANY Old German hurdy gurdys and a statuesque medieval singer collide with synthesizers and grooves with Qntal. Principals Michael Popp and Sigrid Hausen also perform in the more traditional early music group Estampie. They talk about their medieval and modern worlds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Japancakes AN INTERVIEW WITH JAPANCAKES - AMBIENT COUNTRY ROCK Japancakes are a band from Athens, Georgia that mixes electric guitar with pedal steel guitar, classical strings with synthesizers and emerges with a sound that's got country airs strung out in classical refrains. We interview three of the central figures in this band that expands the alternative Athens tradition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Mickey Hart and Zakir Hussain - Global Drum Project AN INTERVIEW WITH MICKEY HART and ZAKIR HUSSAIN - PLANET DRUM KEEPS BEATING. In 1976, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and Indian tabla wizard Zakir Hussain created the Diga Rhythm Band. In 1991 that morphed into Planet Drum and now they return with the Global Drum Project. We gather the two percussionists to talk about creating their 21st century global percussion orchestra. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Jeff Oster AN INTERVIEW WITH JEFF OSTER: BUILT TO LOOP. Jeff Oster grew up as a traditional trumpet player, blowing Tower of Power horn lines. Now he's reinvented himself, transforming into a digital designer. Finding collaborators and sounds on-line, he's just crafted his second CD of ambient horn music, TRUE. It was our Echoes CD of the Month in September. We talk with Jeff Oster and Will Ackerman about the looping logic of TRUE. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Michael Brook - Secret Sources MICHAEL BROOK - SECRET SOURCES Michael Brook has been at the bleeding edge of new music, working with Brian Eno, collaborating with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, scoring films like An Inconvenient Truth and recording his own albums like last year's RockPaperScissors. In his Los Angeles studio, Michael comments on music that has influenced his career and music he has influenced. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - The Music of ECM HORIZONS TOUCHED: THE MUSIC OF ECM. ECM Records defined a style of music that evokes a sense of space, contemplation and nuance to anyone who listens. A new book called Horizons Touched: The Music of ECM, goes behind the scenes with interviews from over 100 ECM artists and founder Manfred Eicher. We hear from editor and ECM producer Steve Lake and some of those artists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Anoushka Shankar and Karsh Kale ANOUSHKA SHANKAR AND KARSH KALE INTERVIEW: OCEANS OF TRADITION. Anoushka is the sitar-playing daughter of Ravi Shankar who is equally at home with Indian classical and Goa electronica. Karsh Kale is a beat master as comfortable with a tabla drum as a computer. They recently got together on a new CD called Breathing Under Water that ranges from traditional Indian to pop songs with guest appearances by Ravi Shankar, Sting and Anoushka's sister, Norah Jones Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - AndyMcKee ANDY MCKEE INTERVIEW: YOU TUBE PHENOMENON. Andy McKee is a fingerstyle guitarist in the tradition of Michael Hedges, and he also plays harp guitar. He's best-known for the You Tube video for his tune Drifting, which has been viewed over 7 million times. Andy McKee talks about his YouTube stardom and the guitar playing that got him there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Russel Walder RUSSEL WALDER INTERVIEW: RISE ASCENDS A former Windham Hill oboist orchestrates an ambient chamber music masterpiece. Russel Walder was a mainstay of the 1980s instrumental music scene. He recorded on Windham Hill Records in a duo with pianist Ira Stein and guested on many other records. After many years and emigration to New Zealand he's released a new solo CD that merges ambient chamber music, world music and electronica. From his home in New Zealand, Russel Walder talks about his musica ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Roger Dean ROGER DEAN INTERVIEW: THE NATURAL WORLD REIMAGINED The cover art illustrator who defined the Progressive Rock era. Roger Dean hasn't played a note, but his cover illustrations for Yes and many others created imaginary worlds that sang their own song. We talk with Roger Dean and Yes singer Jon Anderson about Dean's interaction with bands like Yes and his transformation of the natural world into a supernatural world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Evan Bartholomew EVAN BARTHOLOMEW INTERVIEW: THE CLASSICAL SIDE OF BLUETECH We know Evan Bartholomew as ambient and electronic composer Bluetech. But Evan grew up studying classical music and piano. He brings that side to a CD called BORDERLANDS. We talk with him about picking up the digital baton. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Giles Reaves and Dave Fulton DAVE FULTON AND GILES REAVES: TONE ON THE RANGE Dave Fulton was a founder of the veteran space music band, Dweller at the Threshold. Giles Reaves created an electronic classic in the 1980s with his debut album, WUNJO. The musicians got together to create electronic music in a cross country collaboration. We talk with Dave Fulton and Giles Reaves about their CD, THE RANGE. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Paul Winter Paul Winter, the creator of world fusion chamber music, marrying Jazz, Classical and World-Music traditions, has been a frequent guest on Echoes. To celebrate his birthday this week, we revisit an interview with Paul Winter from the early days of Echoes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Klaus Schulze KLAUS SCHULZE An original member of Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel, Schulze is best known for a string of space music albums in the 1970s and 80s with driving sequencer patterns and surreal imagery. In the early 1990s, Klaus looked back on his career. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Starr Parodi Starr Parodi honed her chops in the Arsenio Hall Show Band in the early 1990s and has played fusion keyboards with numerous artists. Now she spends her time with her husband, Jeff Fair, writing film soundtracks and movie trailers. Recently, she turned off her keyboards and sat at a piano for the ruminations of her album, Common Places. Starr Parodi and Jeff Fair talk about an album that mixes originals with unusual cover choices like Buffalo Springfield's for What It's Worth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - HAROLD BUDD and ROBIN GUTHRIE HAROLD BUDD and ROBIN GUTHRIE: SHOEGAZERS IN AMBIENCE Harold Budd is the keyboardist who created the sound of ambient chamber music. Robin Guthrie created dream guitar textures as the guitarist of The Cocteau Twins. The two musicians first got together in the 1980s and have reunited some 20 years later for a pair of atmospherically chilled albums, "After the Night Falls" and "Before the Day Breaks." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Steven Chesne: The Luminous World Orchestra AN INTERVIEW WITH THE LUMINOUS WORLD ORCHESTRA: Steven Chesne has made his living composing scores for middle-brow TV shows, but those credits don't prepare you for the subtle global sounds he creates under the guise of The Luminous World Orchestra. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Single Cell Orchestra AN INTERVIEW WITH SINGLE CELL ORCHESTRA: MITOSIS IN A MICROCHIP Single Cell Orchestra is the recording persona of Miguel Fierro. For more than a decade he's been making intricate, mind-expanding electronic music. We visit him in his Los Angeles apartment where we talk about his father, jazz horn player Martin Fierro and Miguel's sideline as a stand-up comic. It's an electro-laugh riot, on Echoes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Ulrich Schnauss An Echoes interview with Ulrich Schnauss. Schnauss is a German electronic artist who is influenced by classic spacemusic, but he doesn't simply reproduce it. He's just released his third album, GOODBYE, but it's really hello to an even more psychedelic sound. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Michael Halaas and Joan Jeanrenaud An Echoes interview with Michael Halaas and Joan Jeanrenaud. Pianist Michael Halaas teams up with cello virtuoso Joan Jeanrenaud from Kronos Quartet on a CD called The Lucidity Project. We get them together to talk about a different kind of chamber music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - General Fuzz An Echoes interview with General Fuzz. More information at http://www.echoes.org/podcast.html Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes Interview feature - Steve Roach-Secret Sources An Echoes interview with Steve Roach. In this Secret Sources session, synthesist Steve Roach puts on the headphones while we play him music that might have been part of his musical journey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Dino Saluzzi and Anja Lechner DINO SALUZZI & ANJA LECHNER: BANDONEON BEYOND TANGO When Astor Piazzolla died in 1992, Dino Saluzzi quietly assumed the mantle of the world’s leading bandoneon player. But it’s not tango music as much as tango shadows, as Saluzzi plays an intuitive music with a wide array of collaborators. His latest album pairs him with the gifted German [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Air Air debuts the “Secret Sources” Series on EchoesWe sat the French duo Air down with a hidden iPod and had them talk about music that’s been inspirational, affecting their songs, from “La Femme D’Argent” to “Lost in Kyoto.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Fritz Heede FRITZ HEEDE: TRAVELS DOWN THE RITUAL PATH Musician and artist create visual music and musical visuals A couple of years ago we were entranced by the animated DVD ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS by John Banks with music from Fritz Heede. It was a perfect marriage of exotic, kinetic visuals and music. They do it again on a new [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Neil Jacobs NEIL JACOBS: GENTLE GYPSY FINGER-STYLE GUITAR Balkan inspired music for solo acoustic guitar Neil Jacobs is based in Columbus, Ohio, but his travels have taken him throughout the Balkans and into Spain where he studied gypsy music. He incorporates these sounds into a unique guitar style on albums like Secret Places. Neil Jacobs takes us on a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Rasa RASA: SAFFRON BLUE Sanskrit chants reimagined in global tapestries For all of the new millennium, Rasa has been exploring the sound of Indian Bhajans or prayers, creating new melodies for Kim Waters’ luminous voice and setting them in a global landscape of percussion and Hans Christians’ multiple strings, including the cello, sarangi, and Indian violin, and nyckleharpe [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Jon Durant JON DURANT: PROGRESSIVE ROCK AMBIENCES A guitarist loops back to his progressive rock roots It’s hard to describe a guitarist like Jon Durant. He’s been creating ambient soundscapes for over a decade, but he’s always had an edge to his playing that comes from his love of progressive rock. On his new CD, he’s joined by bassist [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Glenn Jones AN INTERVIEW WITH GLENN JONES: A 12-STRING MUTANT A John Fahey disciple travels from progressive rock to free-folk. Glenn Jones is best known as the guitarist with the Boston avant-rock group, Cul De Sac. But he’s also a disciple of acoustic guitar legend, John Fahey. He befriended the influential guitarist and even recorded an album with him. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Lou Reed AN INTERVIEW WITH LOU REED: METAL MACHINE MEDITATIONSUnderground rock icon takes a meditative tripYou may not think of Lou Reed as a meditative kind of guy, but the founding member of The Velvet Underground and purveyor of proto-punk songs like “Walk on the Wild Side” has a new electronic CD designed for meditation and body [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Jon Hassell JON HASSELL:: A 70th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONAn unsung hero of techno-tribal music enters his 8th decade still blowingTrumpeter Jon Hassell’s music roots go back to Karlheinz Stockhausen, Lamonte Young’s Theatre of Eternal Music and playing on the first recording of Terry Riley’s In C. He created the sound of Techno-Tribal music that was brought to popularity [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Hammock AN INTERVIEW WITH HAMMOCK: AMBIENT AMERICANA SHOEGAZERSNashville duo talks about an atmospheric guitar landscapeHammock is a little known duo from Nashville, though both Andrew Thompson and Marc Byrd are players on that city’s booming music scene. On their own, they create guitar driven orchestrations of ambient sound heard recently on their January Echoes CD of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Don Peris DON PERIS: PARLOR MUSIC AND MOVIESGuitarist creates parlor music for home movies in nostalgic tonesDon Peris grew up and still lives in Lancaster, PA, where he works with his wife, singer Karen Peris in a band called The Innocence Mission. But recently Don released a solo, mostly instrumental CD called Go When the Morning Shineth. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Jade Warrior JADE WARRIOR INTERVIEW: PROGRESSIVE POETS OF GLOBAL FUSION We revisit the music of 1970s progressive rock pioneers. Jade Warrior started out as a Jethro Tull style power trio, but on their CD Floating World, they created a symphonic world fusion through elaborate multi-tracking, electric guitar orchestras and flute choirs. Jade Warrior effectively dissolved when one half of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Loreena McKennitt AN INTERVIEW WITH LOREENA MCKENNITT: A JOURNEY CONTINUED Loreena McKennitt picks up where she left off a decade ago It’s been nearly 10 years since Loreena McKennitt released her last CD. Her new CD, An Ancient Muse takes the bookmark out of The Book of Secrets and picks up the story where she left off on her [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Roger Eno and Kate St. John Roger Eno and Kate St. JohnThe Return of the FamiliarRoger Eno creates chamber music for the post modern world, a sound that resonates with a nostalgic warmth but a modern sense of space. Back in 1993 he teamed up with Kate St. John, the oboist and singer with an arty rock band called the Dream [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Curium CURIUM: E.E. CUMMINGS FRIED IN A HARD DRIVE A POET GETS DIGITIZED E.E. Cummings was a poet in word and form, sculpting his verse in graphic designs and synthesist Evan Sornstein has plugged into this. Under his recording guise as Curium he’s made a beguiling recording, setting charming readings of Cummings poetry, read by a 3-year-old girl, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Philip Glass AN INTERVIEW WITH PHILIP GLASS: 70 YEARS OF MAXIMUM MINIMALISM We celebrate the 70th birthday of one of the Holy Trinity of Minimalism Philip Glass turns 70 this year and it’s hard to imagine the music of the last 30 years without him. He virtually reinvented the opera, brought minimalism into the concert hall and provided the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Desert Dwellers AN INTERVIEW WITH DESERT DWELLERS: DIGITAL BEDOUINS Electronic savants sample Eastern sounds Desert Dwellers are something of an ad hoc group, with members in California and New Mexico who follow in the Trance-Indian grooves of artists like the Midival Punditz and Loop Guru, mixing Indian and Middle Eastern exotica into surreal and flowing soundscapes powered by the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Stephen Bennett AN INTERVIEW WITH STEPHEN BENNETT: HARP GUITAR POET A Wizard of the Magical Harp-Guitar The Harp-Guitar is an idiosyncratic instrument played by only a handful of musicians. Michael Hedges and Pat Metheny have both plucked them, but the real zealots are found out on the edges. One of them is Virginia-based musician Stephen Bennett. Lauded by fellow [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Rena Jones AN INTERVIEW WITH RENA JONES:A wired Cellist plugs in and programsThere are a lot of looping electro-cello players out there these days. But Rena Jones is one of the few doing integrated laptop programming at the same time while also playing violin. Until recently, Rena Jones was a denizen of San Francisco’s electronica scene. On [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Aurah AURAH: FINDING DESTINYThe duo of Aurah finds meditative designs in cinematic soundscapesAlthough they have roots in pop music, including a remix of Enya’s Only Time, the duo of Marc Dold and Judith Martin usually ply a more meditative sound. In their Los Angeles studio, Aurah talk about their latest album, Kismet, an evocative journey inspired [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Paul Avgerinos PAUL AVGERINOS INTERVIEW: INTO THE MYSTICA synthesist finds his voiceWhen Paul Avgerinos first started recording, he was a stone cold electronic musician spinning synthesized cycles on CDs like Balancing Spheres. But he was actually a lapsed bassist and burgeoning world music seeker. He brings that all together on his CD, Gnosis, an album that merges [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Ian Boddy IAN BODDY INTERVIEW: OUT OF THE DARK A denizen of dark electronics comes into the light He started as a space music acolyte and evolved into a leading purveyor of retro-space music, glitch and drone zone aesthetics. But on his new album, Elemental, English synthesist Ian Boddy brings melody back to the fore, surrounded in a spiraling [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Mark Mothersbaugh MARK MOTHERSBAUGH INTERVIEW: DEVOLVING SOUNDTRACKS Devo frontman goes behind the scenes with soundtracks If you think that Devo hasn’t done much since “Whip It” in the early 19809s, then you might be surprised how much the former frontman for that group, Mark Mothersbaugh, has been in your life. He’s scored dozens of TV shows and soundtracks from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek REINHOLD HEIL & JOHNNY KLIMEK INTERVIEW: RUNNING TOWARD AMBIENCE Hollywood outsiders redefine the film score. RUN LOLA RUN was one of the most powerful and innovative films of the last decade. Part of the reason was a propulsive soundtrack by Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek along with director Tom Tykwer. Since then they’ve scored films ranging from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring The Album Leaf THE ALBUM LEAF INTERVIEW: AMBIENCES OF LOVE A lonely guy in his room creates ambient chamber rock The Album Leaf is the vehicle of Jimmy LaValle, who creates moody, keyboard based ambiences full of melancholy and reflection. As LaValle reveals, Into the Blue Again was written in isolation, on the eve of a romance. LaValle talks about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Al Di Meola AL DI MEOLA: GUITAR SCHISMS A guitarist torn between electric and acoustic. Al Di Meola earned his reputation for death defying speed runs with Chick Corea’s Return to Forever and on a string of solo CDs in the 1970s and 80s. But for nearly two decades, he’s spent even more time with the acoustic guitar, recording in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Ralph Towner RALPH TOWNER: TIME LINES ON 6 AND 12 STRINGS A legend of finger-style guitar takes us back in time. There are a few jaw dropping names in finger-style guitar playing: Leo Kottke, Tommy Emmanuel, Michael Hedges. But the one who has the jaw-droppers dropping is Ralph Towner. Through his work with the Paul Winter Consort, Oregon, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Bob Holroyd BOB HOLROYD: BACK TO BASICS, AMBIENTLY A synthesist comes in from the global sampling world to find a sound closer to home Bob Holroyd has gained a reputation for his ethno-techno sound designs, but on his latest CD, Hollow Man, he returns to more organic sounds and electronically generated landscapes in an album of haunting, electronic spaces [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring BT BT: BENT CIRCUITS & BINARY UNIVERSES A master of dance electronica makes a progressive ambient masterpiece BT earned his reputation as a techno-trance dance artist, spread his wings in soundtracks like Monster and has now created a work that takes ambient and electronica into new directions. This Binary Universe could be the Tubular Bells of the ’00s. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Michael Manring MICHAEL MANRING: MUTANT BASS GUITAR Michael Manring isn’t one of those bass guitar players content to be in the background, holding up the bottom of the music. He plucks his custom Zon bass guitar in a ballet of flying limbs and impossible pirouettes. Based in Oakland, California, Manring has appeared on just about every Windham Hill [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Bear McCreary BEAR McCREARY: FROM SYNTHESIZERS TO CYLONS The re-imagined version of Battlestar Galactica is one of the most original and engaging series to hit the small screen in a while and it features a score that’s equally inventive. Using electronics, orchestras and global music elements, Bear McCreary creates a soundtrack for an often dark and foreboding science [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Steve Reich STEVE REICH: MINIMALIST MEMORIES ON HIS 70th BIRTHDAY John Diliberto with Steve Reich The most influential musician of the last 50 years turns 70 There is virtually no modern musician in contemporary music who hasn’t been influenced by composer Steve Reich. From hip-hop to ambient, Radiohead to Suzanne Vega, artists have absorbed the minimalist concepts found in his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Ben Vaughn BEN VAUGHN: YESTERDAY’S SQUARE MUSIC TODAY Ben Vaughn isn’t afraid to say he loves easy listening music Vaughn cut his teeth in Philadelphia’s punk scene before forming the Ben Vaughn Combo, but he’s best known for his retro-rock scores to TV programs like Third Rock from the Sun and That 70’s Show. Vaughn recently indulged his love [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Michael Brook MICHAEL BROOK: INFINITE VARIATIONS Michael Brook came to renown working with Brian Eno and released his influential ambient guitar album, Hybrid in 1982. Since then he’s gone on to play with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Djivan Gasparyan, and has scored and worked on films like Affliction and Black Hawk Down. He brings all those influences into [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Marconi Union MARCONI UNION: TAPPING THE WIRELESS ETHER Electronic duo orchestrates the static of ether into ambient expanses Out of the industrial northern lands of Manchester, England, the duo called Marconi Union seem to orchestrate ambient ballets out of atmospheric static. James Crossley and Richard Talbot met in a record shop and began connecting their laptop computers and electric [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring John Foxx-part2 JOHN FOXX PART TWO: TINY COLOUR MOVIES Composer scores the soundtrack for the lost cinema of home movies Remember those old color washed Super 8 home movies your parents or grandparents used to show? John Foxx has discovered an underground of Super 8 film makers taking lost, forgotten films or creating new movies of idiosyncratic visions brought to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Banco De Gaia BANCO DE GAIA: GLOBAL POLITICS IN ETHNO-AMBIENT TAPESTRIES England’s leading ethno-techno artist orchestrates a global music of the electro-imagination Ferengistan may be the ancient name that Arabs had for the west, as Toby Marks claims, or it may be a word play on Star Trek’s venal Ferengi race. But there’s no doubting the message behind the latest ethno-ambient [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Richard Leo Johnson RICHARD LEO JOHNSON: RIDING THE RAILS OF RUSTIC AMERICANA An acoustic guitar wizard creates an Americana myth Richard Leo Johnson came to renown for his death-defying pyrotechnic forays of two-handed guitar tapping, often on a double-necked acoustic guitar. But a while back, the Arkansas born guitarist who currently lives in Savannah came across a battered National Steel guitar [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring AjantaMusic AjantaMusic: Rock Refugees A pair of New Wave brothers find refuge in ambient designs. Ultravox, Magazine and Cowboys International were bands from the New Wave and it happens that these bands had a then very young guitarist named Robin Simon and his brother Paul as members. Robin meted out slash & burn guitar and Paul pounded [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Radio Massacre International RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL: SOUNDING THE ELECTRONIC ECHO British Synth ensemble uses ancient electronics for future music Their name is intimidating and their music tends toward infinite opuses of electronic rhythms, swirling textures and far-flung melodies, mostly improvised on the spot. For the last 13 years, this Manchester-based trio has been taking up the electronic flag waved by [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy STEVE HILLAGE: MIRRORS OF SOUND Ambient Avatar still mixing musical alchemy Steve Hillage was a member of the quintessential edition of the psychedelic band Gong and he unintentionally created one of the blueprints of ambient music with his Rainbow Dome Musick recording some 27 years ago. He has spent the 90s with his partner and synthesist Miquette [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Echoes Podcast featuring Absolute Ambient ABSOLUTE AMBIENT: SAME COUNTRY, DIFFERENT ZONESStrangers in Life, Fellow Travelers in AmbienceMatt Coldrick and Matt Hillier had never met when they started making music together over the internet. The results were the CD Elemental Journeys, one of the best and most spacious electronica albums from 2005, and well it should be. Hillier usually records as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |