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 - Mark Dwane
Mark Dwane has been a fixture on Echoes since his ...
Mark Dwane has been a fixture on Echoes since his debut album, The Monuments of Mars. The signposts of Mark's music are expansive, cinematic melodies, propulsive grooves and chordal sweeps that send you careening into space. His albums often have mythic and sci-fi themes, including his latest album, Other Worlds. Although he has been played on Echoes from the beginning and had CDs of the Month selections, this is Mark's first Echoes interview.
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Echoes Interview feature - Wendy and Lisa
Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman came to renown in Prince's ...
Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman came to renown in Prince's 1980s band, The Revolution, helping him compose the music on albums like Purple Rain. But the duo has been on their own for more than 20 years and can now be heard on the soundtracks for TV shows like Crossing Jordan, Nurse Jackie, and Heroes. Wendy and Lisa talk about the music of Heroes and their new album, White Flags of Winter Chimneys.
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Echoes Interview feature - Morgan Doctor
Morgan Doctor is a world music percussionist who's as likely ...
Morgan Doctor is a world music percussionist who's as likely to play Indian tabla drums in a Kirtan session with Durga Das as mount the stage with The Cliks, a Canadian power-punk band. On her second solo album, Other Life, she creates imagery-laden journeys colored with Indian instruments and ambient designs. We talk with Morgan Doctor about her Other Life on Echoes.
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Echoes Interview feature - Antoine Dufour
Canadian guitarist Antoine DuFour is a fingerstyle guitarist with a ...
Canadian guitarist Antoine DuFour is a fingerstyle guitarist with a wide dynamic range who deploys his formidable guitar techniques across several albums including his latest, Existence. He started acoustic guitar playing while listening to his father's progressive rock albums. Dufour gives us a master class in the techniques of modern fingerstyle guitar
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Echoes Interview feature - Mandrake Project
The Mandrake Project is a collective of musicians that is ...
The Mandrake Project is a collective of musicians that is making progressive rock for the modern world. On their latest album, A Miraculous Container, they merge elements of world music, electronica, virtuoso playing and compositions that sometimes echo Arvo Part meeting Radiohead. The Mandrake Project includes veterans of the Pittsburgh music scene and a violinist from the Polyphonic Spree. They reveal the secrets of the Mandrake Project.
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Echoes Interview feature - The Beyman Brothers
Christopher Guest is best known for film parodies like A ...
Christopher Guest is best known for film parodies like A Mighty Wind, Best of Show and most notably, This is Spinal Tap where he plays Nigel Tufnel in the wasted heavy metal band of the title. You might think The Beyman Brothers were a parody as well, but Guest, who is a serious musician, has teamed up with childhood friend David Nichtern of Drala and "Midnight at the Oasis" fame and longtime music collaborator CJ Vanston to create an album of evocative world chamber folk music called Memories of Summer As a Child. The Beyman Brothers give us a real interview.
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Echoes Interview feature - Morgan Doctor - Echo Location
Morgan Doctor is one of those musicians who finds herself ...
Morgan Doctor is one of those musicians who finds herself between worlds. The music on her new solo album, Other Life, is marked by imagery laden instrumental journeys colored with Indian instruments and ambient designs. She's a world music percussionist who's just as likely to play Indian tabla drums in a Kirtan session with Durga Das as mount the stage with the rock band The Cliks. Her album is Other Life, and she creates other music, falling well between the cracks.
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Echoes Interview feature - David Darling
There aren't too many instrumental albums that will cite political ...
There aren't too many instrumental albums that will cite political journalist Amy Goodman in the acknowledgments. David Darling has created a post-Bush meditation of chamber cello orchestrations called Prayer for Compassion. We go to the lair of the lord of largo who takes us into the deep and layered world of his music.
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Echoes Interview feature - Steve Roach and Erik Wollo
Steve Roach and Erik Wollo are contemporaries from opposite sides ...
Steve Roach and Erik Wollo are contemporaries from opposite sides of the world and opposite ends of the thermometer. But after three decades of mutual admiration, they got together to collaborate on an expansive CD that took both musicians out of their comfort zones and into new terrain. We connect these artists over transcontinental space to hear their Stream of Thought.
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Echoes Interview feature - Roger O'Donnell
Roger O'Donnell spent the better part of his career as ...
Roger O'Donnell spent the better part of his career as keyboardist with moody rockers The Cure during their heyday in the 1980s and 90s. But now that he's out on his own, he's traded rock stardom for retro-electronic music played almost exclusively on the Moog Voyager synthesizer. O'Donnell talks about his personal electronic music on his latest CD, Songs from the Silver Box.
