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 - Northcape
Northcape is the recording persona of English musician Alastair Brown. ...
Northcape is the recording persona of English musician Alastair Brown. He's one of those musicians who took piano lessons and then discovered synthesizers. He talks about his music and latest album, Exploration and Ascent.
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Echoes feature - Yes Is The Answer
Marc Weingarten and Tyson Cornell are Progressive Rock fans and ...
Marc Weingarten and Tyson Cornell are Progressive Rock fans and they've edited a collection of personal essays about Prog Rock. Contributors such as novelist Rick Moody and music critic Jim DeRogatis write about their mixed feelings about Progressive Rock. We'll talk with Weingarten and Cornell about the mixture of love and embarrassment so many writers feel for the genre.
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Echoes feature - Hans Joachim Roedelius and Lloyd Cole
Hans-Joachim Roedelius, the founder of the German groups Cluster and ...
Hans-Joachim Roedelius, the founder of the German groups Cluster and Harmonia, and the former rocker who had hits as Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, get together for an album of antique ambient dreams.
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Echoes feature - Lunasa
The Irish band Lunasa talks about keeping the spirit of ...
The Irish band Lunasa talks about keeping the spirit of Irish traditional music alive in the 21st century.
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Echoes feature - Hooverphonic
We talk to Hooverphonic, the Belgian band that traffics in ...
We talk to Hooverphonic, the Belgian band that traffics in haunting dream-pop, grooving trip-hop and songs that sound like they stepped right out of a James Bond film circa 1967.
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Echoes feature - Karl Hyde
Karl Hyde is one-half of the popular dance-music group called ...
Karl Hyde is one-half of the popular dance-music group called Underworld. But he's launched a new conceptual CD called Edgeland that trades dance beats for introspective moods. Hyde and his collaborator, Leo Abrahams, talk about their electro-noir tales.
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Echoes feature - Seven Saturdays
Jonathan Haskell is a synthesis of influences. Recording as Seven ...
Jonathan Haskell is a synthesis of influences. Recording as Seven Saturdays, you can hear elements Zero Seven, BT, MoodSwings, and early Pink Floyd roving through his music. On his new song-cycle, the former instrumental composer brings in guest singers for his expansive songs.
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Echoes feature - Pat Metheny plays John Zorn
Acclaimed guitarist Pat Metheny talks about playing the music of ...
Acclaimed guitarist Pat Metheny talks about playing the music of avant-garde iconoclast John Zorn. Metheny brings guitar fury to Zorn's compositions on the album, TAP: The Book of Angels volume 20.
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Echoes feature - Mike Oldfield - 40th Anniversary of Tubular Bells
It was forty years ago that Mike Oldfield electrified the ...
It was forty years ago that Mike Oldfield electrified the world with his hit album, Tubular Bells. It had one composition spanning two sides of an LP, and featured Oldfield playing almost all the instruments. We look back at this iconic work that launched Mike Oldfield's career, Virgin Records, and hundreds of one-man-band recordings.
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Echoes feature - Olafur Arnalds
Albums using electronics, heavy metal singers and cinematic strings don't ...
Albums using electronics, heavy metal singers and cinematic strings don't usually top the Classical music charts, but Olafur Arnalds' For Now I Am Winter managed to do that. We'll talk to the Icelandic composer about his haunting, melancholy music.
