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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 |