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 - Joseph Byrd - The United States of America
As the founder of the rock bands United States of ...
As the founder of the rock bands United States of America and Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies, Joseph Byrd made some of the definitive acid rock of the 1960s. He also made some of the first electronic rock in the days before Moogs were prevalent. Joseph Byrd talks about his pre-rock academic music days, the psychedelic 60s, and beyond.
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Echoes feature - Pat Metheny - Orchestrion Project Live
In 2010 Pat Metheny toured with his massive mechanical orchestra, ...
In 2010 Pat Metheny toured with his massive mechanical orchestra, the Orchestrion. Upon the release of a live album, we go back into the belly of the Orchestrion beast with the acclaimed jazz guitarist.
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Echoes feature - Brian Reitzel
Soundtrack composer Brian Reitzell talks about his moody, atmospheric and ...
Soundtrack composer Brian Reitzell talks about his moody, atmospheric and sometimes avant-garde score for Boss, the Starz series starring Kelsey Grammar. It includes collaborations with Air and Shearwater.
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Echoes feature - Ulrich Schnauss - A Long Way To Fall
Ulrich Schnauss was one of the signpost electronic musicians of ...
Ulrich Schnauss was one of the signpost electronic musicians of the 21st century's first decade. Now he's just released his first CD of the Twenty-Teens: a gorgeous work of melodic ambient spaces called A Long Way to Fall.
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Echoes feature - Philip Glass
With the death of one of his mentors, Ravi Shankar, ...
With the death of one of his mentors, Ravi Shankar, last year, we take a look at the music of Philip Glass on his 76th birthday. We'll hear Glass, as well as Shankar, talking about the minimalist revolution.
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Echoes feature - Jon Durant and Colin Edwin
Colin Edwin is the bassist with English Progressive Rock band, ...
Colin Edwin is the bassist with English Progressive Rock band, Porcupine Tree. Jon Durant is a guitarist with ambient dimensions. They get together on a CD of darkly hued, atmospherically deep instrumentals.
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Echoes feature - The Piano Guys
They've been lighting up YouTube with their inventive videos that ...
They've been lighting up YouTube with their inventive videos that reflect their eclectic mix of pop songs and classical music for piano and cello. We talk to this 5-headed multi-media ensemble about classical music in the digital age.
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Echoes feature - Hammock
The Nashville based ambient guitar duo has released an epic ...
The Nashville based ambient guitar duo has released an epic masterpiece called Departure Songs. We talk to them about their songs of loss and affirmation drenched in layers of reverbed guitar.
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Echoes feature - Just Music - Ambient Zone
The Ambient Zone – Just Music Cafe Volume 4. Why ...
The Ambient Zone – Just Music Cafe Volume 4. Why have one great ambient artist when you can have twelve. This brilliant collection from the English Just Music label includes new music from Marconi Union, Digitonal, Jon Hopkins, Leo Abrahams and others.
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Echoes feature - Essential Echoes 2012
There are always three year end lists at Echoes. The ...
There are always three year end lists at Echoes. The first is John Diliberto's personal Top Ten which embraces all the music he listens to, not just what gets played on Echoes. Then comes the Best of Echoes 2012 listener poll, and finally, the 25 Essential Echoes CDs of 2012. These are the albums that the Echoes staff thought were the most significant releases of 2012 that were played on Echoes. We take a listen to some of the Essential Echoes for 2012.
