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 - Bing and Ruth
There isn’t anyone named Bing or Ruth in the band ...
There isn’t anyone named Bing or Ruth in the band called Bing and Ruth, and their sound is as mysterious as their name. Headed up by pianist David Moore, they mix reed instruments, two double basses, cello and delay electronics in a haunting, hypnotic ambient chamber music sound, influenced by Brian Eno, minimalism, Arvo Part, and ambient jazz, and born from composed improvisation. Last year they released their album, Tomorrow Was the Golden Age, a title that is as enigmatic as their music. They talk about their unusual and contemplative path.
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Echoes feature - Lanterna
Lanterna is Henry Frayne, a journeyman guitarist who was in ...
Lanterna is Henry Frayne, a journeyman guitarist who was in the shoegaze bands Area and The Moon Seven Times. But he struck out on his own years ago and began producing Americana-shaded, country-tinged guitar works, painting landscapes that seemed to rise out of the desert plains and roar down the SoCal surf guitar highway. He's put out a string of wonderful albums including Desert Ocean and Highways. It’s been nine years since Lanterna released an album, but he’s finally returned with Backyards. Henry Frayne talks about his time away and the music it helped produce, a sound that was born on acoustic guitar.
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Echoes feature - Johan Agebjorn
Johan Agebjorn is like an undercover agent living three different ...
Johan Agebjorn is like an undercover agent living three different lives. By day, he's a father and is studying to become a psychologist. At night he's the mastermind behind Sally Shapiro, a Swedish pop project that has had several hits in Europe. But when everyone is asleep, Agebjorn slips into his studio to make ambient music. He recently released the album Notes, an ambitious song cycle exploring chamber and electronic moods with singers, including Sally Shapiro and Loney Dear. We talk to Johan Agebjorn about music that’s influenced by his children, and their toy instruments.
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Echoes feature - Sonomad
Sonomad is a project of keyboardist and programmer Ramin Sakuria ...
Sonomad is a project of keyboardist and programmer Ramin Sakuria and guitarist Geoffrey Brandin. Both musicians were in the electronica band The Supreme Beings of Leisure. For Sonomad, they go downtempo, combining rich melodic compositions, a bevy of guest singers and deep ambient atmospheres. Those sounds set the scene for a conceptual work about the character, Sonomad, or sound wanderer, that involves concepts of life, infinity and beyond. They talk about it tonight on Echoes.
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Echoes feature - Kaki King
Innovative and influential guitarist Kaki King talks about her daring ...
Innovative and influential guitarist Kaki King talks about her daring new project called The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body. It's a conceptual project using the guitar as a metaphor for life. It's accompanied by an ambitious projection system that uses the face of the guitar as a screen. She talks about the many musical paths where this leads her, most of which are far from the solo acoustic guitarist paradigm.
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Echoes feature - Darin Mahoney
Darin Mahoney started out as a cowboy roping cattle and ...
Darin Mahoney started out as a cowboy roping cattle and riding broncos in rodeos. A near-death experience with cancer and an encounter with guitarist Will Ackerman's music changed his life. Now he creates dreamy guitar music as a solo artist and in a duo with flutist Sherry Finzer.
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Echoes feature - Fernwood
Fernwood's album Arcadia was our CD of the Month in ...
Fernwood's album Arcadia was our CD of the Month in February. Now we talk to the two musicians behind this unique project. Gayle Ellett and Todd Montgomery are modern musicians purveying a backwoods Americana global music fusion. Arcadia is their second album of mostly acoustic ruminations, orchestrated with everything from sitars and guitars to bouzoukis and dilrubas in a global music of the imagination. They talk about the meeting of the Ganges River and the Swanee River.
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Echoes feature - Big Ears Festival
The Big Ears Festival might be the most adventurous music ...
The Big Ears Festival might be the most adventurous music festival in the country. Taking place at several venues across Knoxville, Tennessee March 27-30, it brings together artists on the cutting edges of music. This year it will include Laurie Anderson, Nels Cline, Bill Frisell and A Winged Victory for the Sullen. We talk to Big Ears founder Ashley Capps and David Harrington from the Kronos Quartet, this year’s festival Artists In Residence.
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Echoes feature - Gong
Daevid Allen, founder of Gong, announced a few weeks ago ...
Daevid Allen, founder of Gong, announced a few weeks ago that he was dying of cancer and today, March 13, he has left the planet. Allen was 77 years old. Gong influenced everyone from Ozric Tentacles to Steve Roach. A few years ago, after a Nearfest performance, David Allen and guitarist Steve Hillage talked about the daze of Gong.
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Echoes feature - Chad Lawson
Chopin is in the air lately. Pianist Chad Lawson has ...
Chopin is in the air lately. Pianist Chad Lawson has turned the classical composer’s compositions into ambient chamber music on his 2014 album, The Chopin Variations. He comes in to talk about his impressionistic take on this classical icon.
