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 Interview feature - Loner
Loner is the recording persona of Geoff Smith, an English ...
Loner is the recording persona of Geoff Smith, an English singer-songwriter with a penchant for introspective moods, haiku-like lyrics, and songs that linger in your mind like a lost lover. In his London flat, he's composed two CDs filled with melancholy moods. His latest is called Western Sci Fi. Geoff Smith talks about the solitude of Loner.
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Echoes Interview feature - Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell is not only one of the best guitarists ...
Bill Frisell is not only one of the best guitarists of our age, but one of the most conceptual. Since his 1983 debut on ECM, he's charted a singular course, mixing country ambience and electronic distortion, weaving together music from Aaron Copland to Madonna, plus his own originals. He's a guitarist's guitarist, a musician's musician and he talks with us about his music, on Echoes.
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Echoes Interview feature - Rhian Sheehan
Rhian Sheehan is a composer from New Zealand who gets ...
Rhian Sheehan is a composer from New Zealand who gets to a place of exultant stillness on his CD, Standing in Silence. It's an album born from isolation and innocence. He rummages through his daughter's toy box, emerging with xylophones and music boxes that he electronically deconstructs and weaves into arrangements for electronics and ambient guitar, making the music itself sound like a lost artifact plucked from the dust and silence of another culture. From New Zealand, we talk with Rhian Sheehan.
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Echoes Interview feature - Moby - part 2
Moby has made his most personal album yet. It's called ...
Moby has made his most personal album yet. It's called Wait for Me and it's a CD of deep textures, soulful ruminations and unexpected turns. Moby says - It's really designed for one listener. It's not designed for a party, it's not designed for 20 people in a bar or night club to listen to. It's for someone lying in bed Sunday morning 9 o'clock when it's raining outside. We go inside Wait for Me when we talk with Moby.
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Echoes Interview feature - Moby - part 1
In the first of two interviews we talk with Moby ...
In the first of two interviews we talk with Moby about his career that has taken him from the disco dance floors of New York City to an avatar of electronic music that has found favor in the pop charts, on films and in commercials. Moby takes us from his days as the man behind many pseudonyms to his latest album, Wait for Me.
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Echoes Interview feature - Matthew Schoening
Matthew Schoening is in the second generation of looping cellists. ...
Matthew Schoening is in the second generation of looping cellists. He plays an instrument that looks like an electric stick, but it sounds like a string orchestra when he layers it in real time performance. Schoening talks about his journey from lapsed cellist to sound technician and back into the new world of music making.
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Echoes Interview feature - Mellodrama
The Mellotron was the sound of progressive rock and space ...
The Mellotron was the sound of progressive rock and space music in the 1970s. Before digital synthesizers, it was an instrument that played back the sounds of orchestras, choirs, and more. It generated the grandeur of The Moody Blues, Tangerine Dream, King Crimson and many others. In her new documentary Mellodrama, director Dianna Dilworth has chronicled the birth of the Mellotron, going back to the late 1940s and the Chamberlin keyboard. We talk to her about these instruments and their epic journey.
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Echoes Interview feature - Mono
Mono doesn't take its name from the audio configuration. This ...
Mono doesn't take its name from the audio configuration. This band is in full, glorious stereo, but they have a singular focus on making an orchestral rock guitar music that owes as much to Explosions in the Sky as Arvo Part. We talk with Mono founder, guitarist Takaakira Goto, about his dynamic music heard on the CD, Hymn to the Immortal Wind.
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Echoes Interview feature - Ray Montford
Ray Montford is one of those chameleon guitarists who can ...
Ray Montford is one of those chameleon guitarists who can play just about anything, but on his latest album, A Fragile Balance, he creates and ambient Americana that's like a meeting of Pink Floyd and Ry Cooder. We talk to this gifted musician about his long career in the music trenches and music that touches the sky.
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Echoes Interview feature - Leo Abrahams
Leo Abrahams is a guitarist who can pluck a plaintive ...
Leo Abrahams is a guitarist who can pluck a plaintive acoustic guitar melody and turn around to mutate his guitar into an ambient abstraction. A sideman with Brian Eno, this ambient accomplice heads for the pastoral side on his CD, The Grape and the Grain. With elements of Americana and English folk music, he creates a lyric recording that's like a soundtrack for the harvest. Leo Abrahams talks about his music on Echoes.
