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 - Laurie Anderson
We go into Laurie Anderson's Manhattan studio where the iconoclastic ...
We go into Laurie Anderson's Manhattan studio where the iconoclastic artist talks about her latest work, Homeland, a meditation on life's passage and politics. Critics are calling it her best work since Big Science.
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Echoes feature - Dave Bainbridge
Guitarist Dave Bainbridge is best known for his work as ...
Guitarist Dave Bainbridge is best known for his work as founder of the Celtic progressive rock group, Iona. On his own and with Uilleann piper Troy Donockley, he sculpts meditative improvisations in cathedrals and expansively orchestrated studio works. We talk to him about a sound born in faith.
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Echoes feature - Afrocelt Sound System - Icons of Echoes
Afro Celt Sound System has contributed some of the defining ...
Afro Celt Sound System has contributed some of the defining sounds of Echoes with their mixture of African, Eastern, and Irish music, coupled with electronic grooves and moods. We look back at the energy-charged world fusion of this band. Echoes listeners voted them number 15 of 20 Icons of Echoes.
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Echoes feature - Bluetech
Acclaimed downtempo electronic composer Bluetech gets his dub thing going ...
Acclaimed downtempo electronic composer Bluetech gets his dub thing going on a new CD called Love Songs To the Source. Bluetech talks about his new electro-Jamaican Jams.
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Echoes feature - Robert Rich - An Icon of Echoes
We look back on the career of electronic composer Robert ...
We look back on the career of electronic composer Robert Rich, whose techno-tribal music and ambient dreamscapes reflect the state of the art in organic electronic music. Echoes lisyeners voted him number 14 of 20 Icons of Echoes.
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Echoes feature - Hungry Lucy
We hear ghost stories from Hungry Lucy. They're an electronica ...
We hear ghost stories from Hungry Lucy. They're an electronica duo from Ohio who take their name from a horror tale and take their music from the interior dreams of singer Christa Belle and electronic artist Warren Harrison.
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Echoes feature - Spyra
Wolfram Spyra is a German electronic artist who falls between ...
Wolfram Spyra is a German electronic artist who falls between the early space music of Klaus Schulze and the modern dance music of techno. He started as an avant-garde sound installation artist before turning to space music and techno. We hear the story of a 3rd generation space musician with Spyra.
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Echoes feature - Kaki King
She started out as a two-handed tapping, acoustic finger-style phenomenon, ...
She started out as a two-handed tapping, acoustic finger-style phenomenon, but over the last decade, Kaki King has remolded herself as a punky singer-songwriter wailing on electric guitar. We talk about her evolution and new CD, Junior.
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Echoes feature - Michael Hedges - An Icon of Echoes
Michael Hedges died in 1997, but he remains the most ...
Michael Hedges died in 1997, but he remains the most revolutionary acoustic guitarist of the last 30 years. His records on Windham Hill remain as standards of captivating composition married to two-handed tapping and other innovative techniques. Michael appeared on Echoes several times. We look back on his words and music.
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Echoes feature - Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu
Jazz guitarist Ralph Towner from the group Oregon and Italian ...
Jazz guitarist Ralph Towner from the group Oregon and Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu talk about their unique and intimate meeting born in intuitive interplay and improvisation on their ECM album, Chiaroscuro.
