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 - Azam Ali
It's lullabies from the Middle East transformed by the voice ...
It's lullabies from the Middle East transformed by the voice of Iranian-born singer, Azam Ali. She updates these songs on a new CD called From Night To the Edge of Day. We talk to the singer, who has also been the voice of the Persian fusion groups Vas and Niyaz.
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Echoes feature - Vicki Richards
Vicki Richards plays electric violin, and although she was inspired ...
Vicki Richards plays electric violin, and although she was inspired by the fusion music of the 1970s and 80s, her own sound is more introspective and drawn from personal experience. She talks about her new album, She Vanishes, the Echoes CD of the Month for April.
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Echoes feature - Agnes Obel
Agnes Obel's debut album was the Echoes CD of the ...
Agnes Obel's debut album was the Echoes CD of the Month in January. We sit down with the Danish singer-songwriter who talks about the often personal stories behind her haunting and entrancing ambient chamber music songs.
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Echoes feature - Skuli Sverrisson
In his New York City apartment, Laurie Anderson's music director, ...
In his New York City apartment, Laurie Anderson's music director, Skuli Sverrisson, pulls out his bass, toy piano and more, when he reveals the concepts behind his subtle and complex ambient chamber music. His CD Seria II echoes Italian film composers Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota and sends them into atmospheric terrain.
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Echoes feature - Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie
Harold Budd is the keyboardist who created the sound of ...
Harold Budd is the keyboardist who created the sound of ambient chamber music. As the guitarist of The Cocteau Twins, Robin Guthrie created dream guitar textures. The two musicians have just put out a new CD of atmospherically chilled music called Bordeaux. They talk about their music on Echoes.
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Echoes feature - Heligoland
Heligoland is the name of an island off the coast ...
Heligoland is the name of an island off the coast of Germany, and also the title of a Massive Attack album, but it's also a group from Australia via Paris that creates an ethereal dream pop. Their new album, All Your Ships are White, was produced by ex-Cocteau Twins guitarist Robin Guthrie. We talk to the band's founders, singer Karen Vogt and bassist Steve Wheeler, about Heligoland's journey geographically and musically.
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Echoes feature - Olafur Arnalds
Icelandic composer and keyboardist Olafur Arnalds sculpts an ambient chamber ...
Icelandic composer and keyboardist Olafur Arnalds sculpts an ambient chamber music landscape full of pensive moods and melodies that insinuate themselves in slow motion elegance. We talk with him about the chilled ambiences of his concept album, And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness.
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Echoes feature - David Arkenstone
This composer and multi-instrumentalist built his reputation as the sultan ...
This composer and multi-instrumentalist built his reputation as the sultan of symphonic new age music, but on his new CD, Ambient World, he takes a more contemplative and textural approach. We talk with David Arkenstone about the Japanese influence on this album, which was our Echoes CD of the Month in February.
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Echoes feature - Richard Marvin
Interview: In Treatment composer Richard Marvin. There isn't a lot ...
Interview: In Treatment composer Richard Marvin. There isn't a lot of music in HBO's psychological drama, In Treatment, but listen at the end of each show and you'll hear a composition that taps the mood of these provocative psychological examinations. We talk to Richard Marvin who composed and played these electronic studies of the mind.
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Echoes feature - Robert Miles
He came to renown in the mid 1990s with his ...
He came to renown in the mid 1990s with his dance-fueled electronic hit, Children, but since then, Italian artist Robert Miles has pursued a course of electronic fusion, mixing jazz grooves and rock guitar, and world music elements into his sound. He has a new album called Thirteen that's a study in post-electric Miles Davis ambient textures.
