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 - Royksopp
In Norway, musicians seem to spin dream pop and electronic ...
In Norway, musicians seem to spin dream pop and electronic ambiences straight out of the arctic air. We'll hear one of the leading exponents of electronica, Royksopp, when they talk about their music from their surprisingly ambient new CD, Senior.
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Echoes feature - Will Romano - Mountains Come Out of the Sky - The Illustrated History of Prog Rock
Will Romano, author of Mountains Come Out of the Sky ...
Will Romano, author of Mountains Come Out of the Sky - The Illustrated History of Prog Rock, was too young to experience the heyday of progressive rock, but he's gone back to explore the sounds of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Yes, and more in this heavily researched book full of key interviews. We talk with Will Romano about the rise of prog.
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Echoes feature - Johan Agebjorn
In Sweden, Johan Agebjorn creates music of paradoxes. He's a ...
In Sweden, Johan Agebjorn creates music of paradoxes. He's a fan of disco and has a hit group called Sally Shapiro. But he also makes deep ambient music. It's high-tech, but informed by Gregorian chants and recordings of trains his mother made. Join Echoes when Johan Agebjorn talks about his nordic electronica.
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Echoes feature - William Tyler
Fusing his Nashville background with influences ranging from finger-style iconoclast ...
Fusing his Nashville background with influences ranging from finger-style iconoclast John Fahey to ambient pioneer Brian Eno, William Tyler picks out Americana songs tinged with deep atmosphere on his CD Behold the Spirit.
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Echoes feature - Cluster
Cluster influenced a generation of musicians from Brian Eno to ...
Cluster influenced a generation of musicians from Brian Eno to Johnny Rotten. The catalog of these German electronic legends is currently being reissued. Cluster founders Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius talk about their quirky, often home-brewed electronic sound from the 1970s and 80s.
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Echoes feature - Dave Eggar and Deoro
Cellist and pianist Dave Eggar is a complicated musician who ...
Cellist and pianist Dave Eggar is a complicated musician who does session work for practically everyone, and has released albums from new age piano to sublime chamber works. His latest album finds him exploring Reggae music. Dave Eggar talks about music from Messiaen to Marley.
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Echoes feature - Near the Parenthesis
Near The Parenthesis is the performance name of Tim Arndt. ...
Near The Parenthesis is the performance name of Tim Arndt. He's a musician who mixes melodic piano lines with glitchy electronics and moody atmospheres. We go between the parentheses to find out the points and asides of his music.
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Echoes feature - Mark Preston
Mark Preston was a rock drummer until he plugged in ...
Mark Preston was a rock drummer until he plugged in and found a deeper, personal space in electronic music. We talk with him about making his first album in high school and his latest CD, Nature and Design, an Echoes CD of the Month last November.
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Echoes feature - Nils Petter Molvaer
Nils Petter Molvaer is a 21st century trumpeter from Norway ...
Nils Petter Molvaer is a 21st century trumpeter from Norway who employs electronic rhythms, free improvisation and elaborate processing on his trumpet for a breathy, introspective sound. He talks about his music and latest album, Hamada.
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Echoes feature -Boxharp
A boxharp is a zither instrument associated with Appalachian music ...
A boxharp is a zither instrument associated with Appalachian music and it's also the name of a quirky duo. Scott Solter and Wendy Allen create swampy, moody renditions of folk songs they've heard from people like Burl Ives. It's not your grandfather's Old Smokey.
