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 - Portico Quartet
You can't turn around these days without hearing the ringing ...
You can't turn around these days without hearing the ringing metallic sounds of a Hang drum, but the English group called Portico Quartet takes this exotic instrument into a world of modal jazz improvisations. We'll talk with this chamber jazz ensemble.
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Echoes feature - Michael Rother
No one heard of them 40 years ago, but the ...
No one heard of them 40 years ago, but the 1970s German bands Neu and Harmonia are now cited in every other review of hip alt-rock bands. We talk to a founder of those groups, guitarist Michael Rother, who is still creating brilliant music on his own, and who recently toured the U.S.
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Echoes feature - Harold Budd - An Icon of Echoes
Producer Daniel Lanois says that Harold Budd plays like feathers ...
Producer Daniel Lanois says that Harold Budd plays like feathers on the piano. For over four decades, this composer has been charting a subtle course of ambient chamber music. We'll look back on his music, drawing from 30 years of interviews in an ambient portrait of our 20th Icon of Echoes.
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Echoes feature - Goldmund
He plays piano like it's barely there, makes ambient music ...
He plays piano like it's barely there, makes ambient music that whispers and has an electronica duo that seduces. His name is Keith Kenniff, but he records as Goldmund, Helios and Mint Julep. He talks about his fragile music and the new Goldmund album, Famous Places.
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Echoes feature -Tierra Negra and Muriel Anderson
Tierra Negra is a Flamenco guitar duo from Germany. They ...
Tierra Negra is a Flamenco guitar duo from Germany. They team up with American harp guitarist Muriel Anderson to play an intricate brand of world string music on their CD, New World Flamenco. We gather the trio to talk about guitar music from Andalusia to Nashville.
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Echoes feature - On Fillmore
On Fillmore is a duo of audio landscapers. Glenn Kotche, ...
On Fillmore is a duo of audio landscapers. Glenn Kotche, the drummer from Wilco, and bassist Darin Gray use tuned percussion, acoustic bass, and assorted odds and ends to create soundscapes that are sometimes enveloping and sometimes discordant.
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Echoes feature - Lisa Gerrard - An Icon of Echoes
The voice of Dead Can Dance and numerous film scores ...
The voice of Dead Can Dance and numerous film scores like Gladiator, Lisa Gerrard channels spirits in a supralingua dialect of the imagination. Through 25 years of interviews, we look back on the music of this iconic, and iconoclastic artist.
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Echoes feature - Bruce Kaphan
Bruce Kaphan put the ambient in ambient Americana with his ...
Bruce Kaphan put the ambient in ambient Americana with his album Slider. Ten years later he returns with a new CD of pedal steel guitar melodies called Hybrid.
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Echoes feature - Dave Eggar
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 - Steve Hackett
When you mention guitar gods, Steve Hackett should be right ...
When you mention guitar gods, Steve Hackett should be right in the thick of it. Coming to renown with the progressive rock group Genesis, Hackett's solo career is marked by expansive, dramatic compositions and solos that make him the Sultan of Sustain. At a triumphal performance at NEARfest 2010, we talk with Hackett about his music past and present.
