PRI: Echoes
A weekly musician interview from Echoes, the soundscape of ambient, new acoustic and world fusion music on public radio and on-line.
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Echoes feature - Euphoria
Euphoria is the rustic electronica persona of Ken Ramm, who ...
Euphoria is the rustic electronica persona of Ken Ramm, who mixes blues and country slide guitar with electronic arrangements. He has two new albums out: E4 Instrumental, and E4 Vocal. We talk to Ramm and singer Robyn Dell'Unto.
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Echoes feature - Tom Griesgraber and Bert Lams
Bert Lams is one of the guitarists from the California ...
Bert Lams is one of the guitarists from the California Guitar Trio. Tom Griesgraber plays Chapman Stick. They talk about their duets and the concept behind their CD, Unnamed Lands.
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Echoes feature - Anoushka Shankar
Sitarist Anoushka Shankar remembers her father, Ravi Shankar on an ...
Sitarist Anoushka Shankar remembers her father, Ravi Shankar on an exquisite new CD called Traces of You recorded with her sister, Norah Jones and producer Nitin Sawhney. She talks about her sitar-centric world fusion, rage at rape, and loss.
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Echoes feature - Darshan Ambient
Darshan Ambient is Michael Allison, a multi-instrumentalist who played bass ...
Darshan Ambient is Michael Allison, a multi-instrumentalist who played bass with Richard Hell and Nona Hendryx before finding his heart in ambient music. His album, Little Things, was the Echoes September CD of the Month. He talks about his ambient fusion of world music, electronics and Miles Davis-style Jazz.
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Echoes feature - Still Corners
Still Corners is a critically-acclaimed Dream-pop band from England. They ...
Still Corners is a critically-acclaimed Dream-pop band from England. They talk about their album, Strange Pleasures with influences ranging from Krautrock to horror films.
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Echoes feature - Lou Reed - Metal Machine Meditations.
You may not think of Lou Reed, who passed away ...
You may not think of Lou Reed, who passed away on October 27, 2013, as a meditative kind of guy, but the founding member of The Velvet Underground and purveyor of proto-punk songs, created an electronic CD designed for meditation and body work. In this Echoes interview from 2007, Lou Reed talked about the ambient spaces of his recording called Hudson River Wind Meditations.
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Echoes feature - Eklipse
Take a German string quartet prone to Victorian lingerie and ...
Take a German string quartet prone to Victorian lingerie and S and M attire and put them behind pop tunes and alt-rock songs and you have Eklipse. We take the eye-patches and makeup off and talk about the music of Eklipse.
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Echoes feature - Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit
The Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit is one of the ...
The Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit is one of the biggest electronic festivals in the country covering music from Nine Inch Nails to the first electronic rock band, Silver Apples. Ashley Capps, the founder of the Summit talks to John Diliberto about soldering the wires of the forthcoming three day music event.
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Echoes feature - Ulrich Schnauss and Mark Peters
Ulrich Schnauss is one of the principal architects of downtempo ...
Ulrich Schnauss is one of the principal architects of downtempo electronica. Guitarist Mark Peters heads the band called Engineers - with whom Schnauss has played. They talk about their latest collaboration, Tomorrow Is Another Day.
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Echoes feature - Mree
Imagine Enya mixed with ambient guitar band Hammock and you ...
Imagine Enya mixed with ambient guitar band Hammock and you have an idea of the intoxicating sound of Mree. We talk to the 19 year old singer-songwriter about the dreamiest of dream pop.
