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 - Winterlight
It's a name that's out of season for most of ...
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 album, Hope Dies Last, which was the Echoes CD of the Month in June.
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Echoes feature - Colin Vallon Trio
They actually want to be referred to as Colin Vallon, ...
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 about their latest ECM album, Rruga and the art of free improvisation.
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Echoes feature - Vic Hennegan
Vic Hennegan is something of an anomaly, a black electronic ...
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, Field of Worlds and Mirrors.
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Echoes feature - Finnouala Sherry
Fionnuala Sherry is half of the Irish - Norwegian duo, ...
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 tunes through an ethereal landscape.
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Echoes feature - Moby: Electronic
The artist known as Moby has been a leading exponent ...
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.
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Echoes feature - Moby: Destroyed
The avatar of ambient soundscapes and dance hits continues on ...
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 more life-affirming than that.
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Echoes feature - Richard Anthony Jay
Orchestral electronica is another area of ambient chamber music, and ...
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 latest CD, Imperfect Beauty.
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Echoes feature - Radio Massacre International - 2011
Despite their name, they don't hate radio, though but they ...
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.
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Echoes feature - The Forefathers
The Forefathers are a Florida band whose guitar-centric sound is ...
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 to this band about their latest CD, Aurora.
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Echoes feature - Sumner McKane
Always an exponent of Ambient Americana, guitarist Sumner McKane scores ...
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 modern ambiences.
