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Echoes feature - Bryan Carrigan Updated: 2012-02-09 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Krusseldorf Updated: 2012-02-09 12:00:00 Description: 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 S...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Patrick O'Hearn Updated: 2012-01-26 12:00:00 Description: 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 gui...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Iarla O'Lionaird Updated: 2012-01-19 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Darshan Ambient Updated: 2012-01-12 12:00:00 Description: 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 Non...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Mazmoneth Updated: 2012-01-05 12:00:00 Description: 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 abou...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Jon Durant Updated: 2011-12-22 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Throbbing Gristle Updated: 2011-12-15 12:00:00 Description: 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-rele...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Jeff Oster. Updated: 2011-12-01 12:00:00 Description: 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 abo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Akara. Updated: 2011-12-01 12:00:00 Description: 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 d...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Russel Walder and Bruce Lipton. Updated: 2011-11-24 12:00:00 Description: 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 i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Azam Ali. Updated: 2011-11-17 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Portico Quartet. Updated: 2011-11-10 12:00:00 Description: 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 cro...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Gentle Giant. Updated: 2011-11-03 12:00:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Pallers. Updated: 2011-10-20 12:00:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Lia Ices. Updated: 2011-10-13 12:00:00 Description: 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 wheneve...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Mary Fahl - From the Dark Side of the Moon Updated: 2011-09-29 12:00:00 Description: 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 int...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Johanna and the Dusty Floor Updated: 2011-09-22 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - AOMusic Updated: 2011-09-15 12:00:00 Description: 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 thei...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Divine Matrix Updated: 2011-09-08 12:00:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Time for Three Updated: 2011-09-01 12:00:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Balmorhea Updated: 2011-08-25 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Ryuichi Sakamoto Updated: 2011-08-18 12:00:00 Description: 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 re...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Karda Estra Updated: 2011-08-11 12:00:00 Description: 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 chambe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Atomic Skunk Updated: 2011-08-04 12:00:00 Description: 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 Mo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Pat Metheny Updated: 2011-07-28 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Winterlight Updated: 2011-07-21 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Colin Vallon Trio Updated: 2011-07-14 12:00:00 Description: 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 ab...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Vic Hennegan Updated: 2011-07-07 12:00:00 Description: 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, Fi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Finnouala Sherry Updated: 2011-06-30 12:00:00 Description: 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 tune...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Moby: Electronic Updated: 2011-06-23 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Moby: Destroyed Updated: 2011-06-16 12:00:00 Description: 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 mor...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Richard Anthony Jay Updated: 2011-06-09 12:00:00 Description: 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 lat...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Radio Massacre International - 2011 Updated: 2011-06-02 12:00:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - The Forefathers Updated: 2011-05-26 12:00:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Sumner McKane Updated: 2011-05-19 12:00:00 Description: 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 mode...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Azam Ali Updated: 2011-05-12 12:00:00 Description: 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 gr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Vicki Richards Updated: 2011-05-05 12:00:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Agnes Obel Updated: 2011-04-28 12:00:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Skuli Sverrisson Updated: 2011-04-21 12:00:00 Description: 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 compose...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie Updated: 2011-04-14 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Heligoland Updated: 2011-04-07 12:00:00 Description: 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 b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Olafur Arnalds Updated: 2011-03-31 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - David Arkenstone Updated: 2011-03-24 12:00:00 Description: 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 influen...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Richard Marvin Updated: 2011-03-17 12:00:00 Description: 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 examinatio...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Robert Miles Updated: 2011-03-10 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Royksopp Updated: 2011-03-03 12:00:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Will Romano - Mountains Come Out of the Sky - The Illustrated History of Prog Rock Updated: 2011-02-24 12:00:00 Description: 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, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Johan Agebjorn Updated: 2011-02-17 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - William Tyler Updated: 2011-02-10 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Cluster Updated: 2011-02-03 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Dave Eggar and Deoro Updated: 2011-01-27 12:00:00 Description: 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 m...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Near the Parenthesis Updated: 2011-01-20 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Mark Preston Updated: 2011-01-13 12:00:00 Description: Mark Preston was a rock drummer until he plugged in and found a deeper, personal space in electronic music. We talk with him about making his first album in high school and his latest CD, Nature and Design, an Echoes CD of the Month last November....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Nils Petter Molvaer Updated: 2011-01-06 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature -Boxharp Updated: 2010-12-30 12:00:00 Description: 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 grandfathe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Anil Prasad's Innerviews Updated: 2010-12-23 12:00:00 Description: 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, Tanger...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Jeff Johnson and Brian Dunning Updated: 2010-12-16 12:00:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Brian Eno - An Icon of Echoes Updated: 2010-12-02 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - David Lanz Updated: 2010-11-25 12:00:00 Description: 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 son...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - The American Dollar Updated: 2010-11-18 12:00:00 Description: 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 Th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Ryuichi Sakamoto Updated: 2010-11-11 12:00:00 Description: 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 re...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature -Boxharp Updated: 2010-11-04 12:00:00 Description: 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 grandfathe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Anil Prasad Updated: 2010-10-28 12:00:00 Description: 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, Tangeri...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Moogfest 2010 Updated: 2010-10-21 12:00:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Nils Petter Molvaer Updated: 2010-10-14 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Portico Quartet Updated: 2010-09-30 12:00:00 Description: 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 ensemb...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Michael Rother Updated: 2010-09-23 12:00:00 Description: 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 ow...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Harold Budd - An Icon of Echoes Updated: 2010-09-16 12:00:00 Description: 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 a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Goldmund Updated: 2010-09-09 12:00:00 Description: 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 alb...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature -Tierra Negra and Muriel Anderson Updated: 2010-09-02 12:00:00 Description: 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 Andalu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - On Fillmore Updated: 2010-08-19 12:00:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Lisa Gerrard - An Icon of Echoes Updated: 2010-08-12 12:00:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Bruce Kaphan Updated: 2010-08-05 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Dave Eggar Updated: 2010-07-29 12:00:00 Description: 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 m...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Steve Hackett Updated: 2010-07-22 12:00:00 Description: 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 Sustai...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Laurie Anderson Updated: 2010-07-15 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Dave Bainbridge Updated: 2010-07-08 12:00:00 Description: 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 wor...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Afrocelt Sound System - Icons of Echoes Updated: 2010-07-01 12:00:00 Description: 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 lis...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Bluetech Updated: 2010-06-24 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Robert Rich - An Icon of Echoes Updated: 2010-06-17 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Hungry Lucy Updated: 2010-06-10 12:00:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Spyra Updated: 2010-06-03 12:00:00 Description: 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 st...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Kaki King Updated: 2010-05-27 12:00:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Michael Hedges - An Icon of Echoes Updated: 2010-05-20 12:00:00 Description: 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. Mic...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu Updated: 2010-05-13 12:00:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Sounds From The Ground Updated: 2010-05-06 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Vangelis - An Icon of Echoes Updated: 2010-04-29 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Time for Three Updated: 2010-04-22 12:00:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Scott August Updated: 2010-04-15 12:00:00 Description: Scott August built his reputation as a player of Native American flutes, but on his new CD, he takes his flutes into space with a sound that reveals the influence of 70s space music. His CD is called Radiant Sky and Scott August illuminates it on Ec...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Moby - An Icon of Echoes Updated: 2010-04-08 12:00:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - All India Radio Updated: 2010-04-01 12:00:00 Description: 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 Kenne...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature -International Guitar Night 2010 Updated: 2010-03-25 12:00:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Loreena McKennitt - An Icon of Echoes Updated: 2010-03-18 12:00:00 Description: We survey the music of Canadian singer-songwriter Loreena McKennitt, a musician who has moved from folky Celtic harp music to global extravaganzas....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Arc - Mark Shrieve and Ian Boddy - in the Echoes Chamber Updated: 2010-03-11 12:00:00 Description: 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 c...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Kevin Keller Updated: 2010-03-04 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton and Will Clipman Updated: 2010-02-25 12:00:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Tangerine Dream - An Icon of Echoes Updated: 2010-02-18 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - William Ackerman - An Icon of Echoes Updated: 2010-02-11 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Kori Linae Carothers Updated: 2010-02-04 12:00:00 Description: Pianist Kori Linae Carothers talks about her intimate chamber music, her recent CD Trillium, and playing with guitarist Will Ackerman and flugelhornist Jeff Oster. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Pat Metheny's Orchestrion Updated: 2010-01-28 12:00:00 Description: Acclaimed jazz guitarist Pat Metheny plugs to the Orchestrion, a massive instrument based on the old player piano orchestrations of yore. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Michael Spriggs Updated: 2010-01-21 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Kronos Quartet Updated: 2010-01-14 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Jon Hopkins Updated: 2010-01-07 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - 20 Icons for 20 Years of Echoes - Patrick O'Hearn Updated: 2009-12-31 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze Updated: 2009-12-24 12:00:00 Description: An African griot meets a German jazz trumpeter when Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze talk about their unlikely and serenely beautiful collaboration. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes feature - New Americana Updated: 2009-12-17 12:00:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Robin Guthrie Updated: 2009-12-10 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Anna Schaad Updated: 2009-12-03 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - 20 Icons for 20 years of Echoes - Steve Roach Updated: 2009-11-26 12:00:00 Description: 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, R...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Gong Updated: 2009-11-19 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Baaba Maal Updated: 2009-11-12 12:00:00 Description: Senegalese singer Baaba Maal talks about the evolution of the African Griot and his own ethereal new CD, Television, recorded with The Brazilian Girls. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Donna DeLory Updated: 2009-11-05 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Urban Nature Updated: 2009-10-29 12:00:00 Description: 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 thei...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - 20 Icons for 20 Years of Echoes - Brian Eno Updated: 2009-10-22 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Phil Keaggy and Jeff Johnson - Frio Suite Updated: 2009-10-15 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Carmen Rizzo and Huun Huur Tuu Updated: 2009-10-08 12:00:00 Description: 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 ow...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Chris Bocast Updated: 2009-10-01 12:00:00 Description: 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 th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Rena Jones 2009 Updated: 2009-09-24 12:00:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Banco de Gaia 2009 Updated: 2009-09-17 12:00:00 Description: 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 Memori...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Harold Budd and Clive Wright Updated: 2009-09-10 12:00:00 Description: 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 f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Ben Neill Updated: 2009-09-03 12:00:00 Description: 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 melodie...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Karda Estra Updated: 2009-08-27 12:00:00 Description: 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 ta...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Bear McCreary - Battlestar Galactica Updated: 2009-08-20 12:00:00 Description: 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 soundtrac...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Inbar Bakal Updated: 2009-08-13 12:00:00 Description: 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 thei...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - John Luther Adams Updated: 2009-08-06 12:00:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Loner Updated: 2009-07-30 12:00:00 Description: 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 melanc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Bill Frisell Updated: 2009-07-23 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Rhian Sheehan Updated: 2009-07-16 12:00:00 Description: 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 box...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Moby - part 2 Updated: 2009-07-09 12:00:00 Description: 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 pe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Moby - part 1 Updated: 2009-07-02 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Matthew Schoening Updated: 2009-06-25 12:00:00 Description: 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 laps...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Mellodrama Updated: 2009-06-18 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Mono Updated: 2009-06-11 12:00:00 Description: 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 found...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Ray Montford Updated: 2009-06-04 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Leo Abrahams Updated: 2009-05-28 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Mark Dwane Updated: 2009-05-21 12:00:00 Description: 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 my...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Wendy and Lisa Updated: 2009-05-14 12:00:00 Description: 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 s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Morgan Doctor Updated: 2009-05-07 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Antoine Dufour Updated: 2009-04-30 12:00:00 Description: 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 fathe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Mandrake Project Updated: 2009-04-23 12:00:00 Description: 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 e...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - The Beyman Brothers Updated: 2009-04-16 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Morgan Doctor - Echo Location Updated: 2009-04-09 12:00:00 Description: 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 percussio...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - David Darling Updated: 2009-04-02 12:00:00 Description: 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 th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Steve Roach and Erik Wollo Updated: 2009-03-26 12:00:00 Description: 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 the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Roger O'Donnell Updated: 2009-03-19 12:00:00 Description: 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 o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Erik Scott Updated: 2009-03-12 12:00:00 Description: 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 b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Bill Bruford Updated: 2009-03-05 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Jon Hassell Updated: 2009-02-26 12:00:00 Description: 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 meet...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Rokia Traore Updated: 2009-02-19 12:00:00 Description: 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 med...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Stomu Yamash'ta Updated: 2009-02-12 12:00:00 Description: 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 Tai...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Make your own Ambient Music Updated: 2009-02-05 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Kaya Project Updated: 2009-01-29 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Johann Johannsson Updated: 2009-01-22 12:00:00 Description: 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 th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Johann Agebjorn Updated: 2009-01-15 12:00:00 Description: 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 me...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - John Gregorius Updated: 2009-01-08 12:00:00 Description: 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-styl...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Saul Stokes Updated: 2009-01-01 12:00:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Celtic Christmas Music Updated: 2008-12-25 12:00:00 Description: 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 Dilibert...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Sundad Updated: 2008-12-18 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Dean De Benedictis Updated: 2008-12-11 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - R Carlos Nakai in the Echoes Chamber Updated: 2008-12-04 12:00:00 Description: 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 J...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Marcin Wasilewski Trio Updated: 2008-11-27 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Sumner McKane Updated: 2008-11-20 12:00:00 Description: 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 atmosphere...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter Updated: 2008-11-13 12:00:00 Description: 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 m...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Vic Hennegan Updated: 2008-11-06 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Bombay Dub Orchestra Updated: 2008-10-30 12:00:00 Description: East-west fusions have been going on since at least the early 1960s when Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar sat down with musicians like jazz saxophonist Bud Shank and classical violinist Yehudi Menuhin. That cross-legged crossover hasn't stopped, and on...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Rudy Perrone Updated: 2008-10-23 12:00:00 Description: 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 Ack...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Fernwood Updated: 2008-10-16 12:00:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Jesse Cook Updated: 2008-10-09 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Lights Out Asia Updated: 2008-10-02 12:00:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Al Di Meola - In the Echoes Chamber Updated: 2008-09-25 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Near the Parenthesis Updated: 2008-09-18 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Juno Reactor Updated: 2008-09-11 12:00:00 Description: 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 comp...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Ronn McFarlane Updated: 2008-09-04 12:00:00 Description: 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 sensibilit...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - John Cage - Thoughts in Sound Updated: 2008-08-28 12:00:00 Description: 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 "Sona...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Alex De Grassi in the Echoes Chamber Updated: 2008-08-21 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Ozric Tentacles Updated: 2008-08-14 12:00:00 Description: 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 sev...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Ludovico Einaudi Updated: 2008-08-07 12:00:00 Description: 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 t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Penguin Cafe Orchestra Updated: 2008-07-31 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Alu Updated: 2008-07-24 12:00:00 Description: 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 a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - AES DANA AND SOLAR FIELDS Updated: 2008-07-17 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Kevin Bartlett Updated: 2008-07-10 12:00:00 Description: 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 Dar...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Return to Forever Updated: 2008-07-03 12:00:00 Description: 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 fusi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Biomusique Updated: 2008-06-26 12:00:00 Description: 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 perc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Sasha Updated: 2008-06-19 12:00:00 Description: 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 s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - The Orb Updated: 2008-06-12 12:00:00 Description: 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 toge...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Gooding Updated: 2008-06-05 12:00:00 Description: 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 cha...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - The Ahn Trio Updated: 2008-05-29 12:00:00 Description: 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 co...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Touched by Eno Updated: 2008-05-22 12:00:00 Description: 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 lif...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Brian Eno Profile Updated: 2008-05-15 12:00:00 Description: 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 Musi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - DJ Spooky - Sound Unbound Updated: 2008-05-08 12:00:00 Description: 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 i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Jon Hassell in the Echoes Chamber Updated: 2008-04-24 12:00:00 Description: 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 lin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Balmorhea Updated: 2008-04-17 12:00:00 Description: 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 ting...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Nik Bartsch's Ronin Updated: 2008-04-10 12:00:00 Description: 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 concer...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Gustavo Santaolalla Updated: 2008-04-03 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Holger Czukay Updated: 2008-03-27 12:00:00 Description: 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 land...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - James Blackshaw Updated: 2008-03-20 12:00:00 Description: 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 fol...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Jack Rose Updated: 2008-03-06 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Mico Nonet Updated: 2008-02-21 12:00:00 Description: 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 Kram...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - David Belmont Updated: 2008-02-14 12:00:00 Description: 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. Dav...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - David Arkenstone Updated: 2008-02-07 12:00:00 Description: 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 comm...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Demania Updated: 2008-01-31 12:00:00 Description: 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 soun...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Shulman Updated: 2008-01-24 12:00:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Ulrich Schnauss in the Echoes Chamber Updated: 2008-01-17 12:00:00 Description: 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 t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Deva Premal and Miten Updated: 2007-12-27 12:00:00 Description: 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 cha...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Melanie Hutton and Marshall Lefferts Updated: 2007-12-20 12:00:00 Description: 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,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Nucultures Updated: 2007-12-13 12:00:00 Description: 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 sophist...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Qntal Updated: 2007-12-06 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Japancakes Updated: 2007-11-15 12:00:00 Description: 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 cl...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Mickey Hart and Zakir Hussain - Global Drum Project Updated: 2007-11-08 12:00:00 Description: 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 w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Jeff Oster Updated: 2007-11-01 12:00:00 Description: 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 ju...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Michael Brook - Secret Sources Updated: 2007-10-25 12:00:00 Description: 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 RockPap...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - The Music of ECM Updated: 2007-10-18 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Anoushka Shankar and Karsh Kale Updated: 2007-10-11 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - AndyMcKee Updated: 2007-10-04 12:00:00 Description: 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 t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Russel Walder Updated: 2007-09-27 12:00:00 Description: 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 S...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Roger Dean Updated: 2007-09-20 12:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Evan Bartholomew Updated: 2007-09-12 12:00:00 Description: 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 ab...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Giles Reaves and Dave Fulton Updated: 2007-09-06 12:00:00 Description: 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 c...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Paul Winter Updated: 2007-08-30 12:00:00 Description: 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 E...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Klaus Schulze Updated: 2007-08-23 12:00:00 Description: 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 ca...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Starr Parodi Updated: 2007-08-16 12:00:00 Description: 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 turn...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - HAROLD BUDD and ROBIN GUTHRIE Updated: 2007-08-09 12:00:00 Description: 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 togeth...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Steven Chesne: The Luminous World Orchestra Updated: 2007-08-02 12:00:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Single Cell Orchestra Updated: 2007-07-25 12:00:00 Description: 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 apart...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Ulrich Schnauss Updated: 2007-07-19 12:00:00 Description: 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 psychedel...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Michael Halaas and Joan Jeanrenaud Updated: 2007-07-12 12:00:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - Steve Roach-Secret Sources Updated: 2007-07-03 12:00:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Echoes Interview feature - General Fuzz Updated: 2007-06-27 12:00:00 Description: An Echoes interview with General Fuzz. More information at http://www.echoes.org/podcast.html...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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