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 - Julia Holter
Julia Holter is a singer-songwriter for the 21st century, recording ...
Julia Holter is a singer-songwriter for the 21st century, recording her voice in vocal layers and spinning them through her mystically tinged songs. Her latest album is called Ekstasis, which is Greek for "outside of oneself." We go inside, with Julia Holter.
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Echoes feature - BJ Cole
He's the best-known pedal steel guitarist in England, but he'd ...
He's the best-known pedal steel guitarist in England, but he'd rather play ambient music than Country and Western. BJ Cole talks about being inspired by Brian Eno, playing on the Icebreaker cover of Eno's Apollo album, and his own new CD, Transparent Music 2.
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Echoes feature - Phil Keaggy and Jeff Johnson
Keyboardist Jeff Johnson and guitarist Phil Keaggy are renowned in ...
Keyboardist Jeff Johnson and guitarist Phil Keaggy are renowned in their own musical worlds. They get together for their second collaboration of intuitively composed tone poems based on their impressions of the Frio River and beyond.
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Echoes feature - Hillary Hahn and Hauschka
What happens when a famed classical violinist collaborates with a ...
What happens when a famed classical violinist collaborates with a musician who puts bottle caps, duct tape, vibrators and chopsticks into his piano? Find out, when we talk to Hilary Hahn and Hauschka about one of the most unlikely collaborations of the year.
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Echoes feature - Franco Falsini and Sensations Fix
Among progressive rock fans, the Italian group Sensations Fix is ...
Among progressive rock fans, the Italian group Sensations Fix is legendary. In the Ambient music world, the band's founder Franco Falsini was a pioneer. We talk to Falsini about the psychedelic roots and branches of Sensations Fix.
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Echoes feature - Icebreaker
Brian Eno's Apollo is a seminal and influential album in ...
Brian Eno's Apollo is a seminal and influential album in ambient music. The English new music ensemble called Icebreaker has taken this electronic work and rendered it as a stunning live performance. Icebreaker's James Poke and pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole talk about adapting this iconic album.
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Echoes feature - Alu
Alu is a siren of psychosis, writing songs of interior ...
Alu is a siren of psychosis, writing songs of interior monologues and primal fears in a voice that is part Kate Bush and part cabaret. We talk about her new CD, Madhouse Masquerade.
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Echoes feature - Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance have returned with Anastasis, their first studio ...
Dead Can Dance have returned with Anastasis, their first studio album in 16 years. The CD and world tour reunites this group that defined an ecstatic gothic sound. Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry talk to us from Quivvy Church in Ireland about touching the spirit.
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Echoes feature - Todd Boston
Todd Boston talks about studying with Ali Akbar Khan and ...
Todd Boston talks about studying with Ali Akbar Khan and recording his new world fusion album, Touched by the Sun, with Windham Hill founder Will Ackerman.
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Echoes feature - Blue Foundation
Growing up in Denmark, Tobias Wilner had a troubled childhood ...
Growing up in Denmark, Tobias Wilner had a troubled childhood in which he lived on the streets and became a skater boy. He's turned that youth into sensual dream pop with his Brooklyn based band, Blue Foundation. Tobias Wilner talks with John Diliberto about the psychological bricks in his group, Blue Foundation.
