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 - New Americana
Americana is a genre that usually refers to rustic music ...
Americana is a genre that usually refers to rustic music with roots in heartland sounds from folk, blues and country. In 2009, Americana emerged in some unusual locations on Echoes, including jazz, the avant-garde and electronica. John Diliberto's top three albums for 2009 are all dipping into a new stream of 21st century Americana.
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Echoes Interview feature - Robin Guthrie
His followers are legion. His layered, delayed and reverbed guitar ...
His followers are legion. His layered, delayed and reverbed guitar sound instantly recognizable. Robin Guthrie talks about music after the Cocteau Twins, his influential 80s band and his new album, Carousel.
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Echoes Interview feature - Anna Schaad
Anna Schaad is a musician steeped in fantasy and besotted ...
Anna Schaad is a musician steeped in fantasy and besotted by her Navy pilot husband. They both inform her dramatic and evocative music on the album, Dream Within A Dream. Anna Schaad talks about her inspirations.
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Echoes Interview feature - 20 Icons for 20 years of Echoes - Steve Roach
Listeners voted Steve Roach as number two of 20 Icons ...
Listeners voted Steve Roach as number two of 20 Icons for 20 Years of Echoes. We'll look back at one of the most influential electronic artists of the last 30 years. From his CDs Structures from Silence to Dreamtime Return and Destination Beyond, Roach's music has been a touchstone of modern ambient and techno-tribal music.
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Echoes Interview feature - Gong
It's been 40 years since Daevid Allen convened his space ...
It's been 40 years since Daevid Allen convened his space gypsy rock band Gong which influenced everyone from Ozric Tentacles to Steve Roach. Allen and guitarist Steve Hillage talk about the daze of Gong.
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Echoes Interview feature - Baaba Maal
Senegalese singer Baaba Maal talks about the evolution of the ...
Senegalese singer Baaba Maal talks about the evolution of the African Griot and his own ethereal new CD, Television, recorded with The Brazilian Girls.
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Echoes Interview feature - Donna DeLory
Singer Donna DeLory talks about life in a post-Madonna world ...
Singer Donna DeLory talks about life in a post-Madonna world as the former back-up singer continues on her path of spiritual pop and mantra chants.
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Echoes Interview feature - Urban Nature
Urban Nature is the duo of guitarist Todd Boston and ...
Urban Nature is the duo of guitarist Todd Boston and percussionist Ramesh Kannan. They're updating the East-West fusion of John McLaughlin's Shakti, adding looping electronics to their already diverse sound. We talk to these two musicians about their album, Coming Home.
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Echoes Interview feature - 20 Icons for 20 Years of Echoes - Brian Eno
Echoes is featuring 20 Icons of Echoes, to celebrate 20 ...
Echoes is featuring 20 Icons of Echoes, to celebrate 20 years of Echoes. When we asked the listeners to vote, Brian Eno easily topped the listener poll. Hear why when we profile the iconoclastic and influential musician.
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Echoes Interview feature - Phil Keaggy and Jeff Johnson - Frio Suite
Keyboardist Jeff Johnson and legendary guitarist Phil Keaggy collaborate on ...
Keyboardist Jeff Johnson and legendary guitarist Phil Keaggy collaborate on a tone poem to the Frio river. It mixes multiple guitars and keyboard textures into one of the most perfect albums of the year. It's the Echoes CD of the Month for October.
