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 - Erik Scott
He's played with Alice Cooper, Flo and Eddie and was ...
He's played with Alice Cooper, Flo and Eddie and was a charter member of Sonia Dada. But when he sat in his home north of Chicago all by himself, bassist Erik Scott came up with an introspective, all-instrumental album that showed what the electric bass can do in the service of evocative compositions. His album is called Other Planets.
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Echoes Interview feature - Bill Bruford
Bill Bruford is the drummer's drummer. He came to renown ...
Bill Bruford is the drummer's drummer. He came to renown with progressive rockers Yes, changed perceptions of percussion with several stints in King Crimson and then turned away from rock with his own brainy jazz group, Earthworks. Now he's announced his retirement and dropped a biting tome, "Bill Bruford: The Autobiography" that talks about life on the road and the changing shape of music.
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Echoes Interview feature - Jon Hassell
Jon Hassell's latest album is called "Last Night the Moon ...
Jon Hassell's latest album is called "Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street," a title taken from a 13th century poem by Rumi. Mixing laptops, layered compositions, and live sound processing, it often sounds like Miles Davis meeting Arvo Part, tuning in signals from space. We talk with Jon Hassell about Fourth World music in the 21st Century.
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Echoes Interview feature - Rokia Traore
From Mali comes Rokia Traore, a singer-songwriter whose lyrics are ...
From Mali comes Rokia Traore, a singer-songwriter whose lyrics are in her native Bamama tongue but whose songs speak a universal language through her sensual, smokey voice. We talk with her about her new album, Tchamantche that moves through deep meditations and joyous hymns.
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Echoes Interview feature - Stomu Yamash'ta
One of the often overlooked figures of progressive rock is ...
One of the often overlooked figures of progressive rock is Japanese composer Stomu Yamash'ta. In the 1970s, Yamash'ta played with Stevie Winwood, Al Di Meola and Klaus Schulze. Many of his seminal albums have just been reissued. We travel back to Taidokoju Temple for a meditation with Stomu Yamash'ta.
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Echoes Interview feature - Make your own Ambient Music
We explore a couple of new programs for the computer ...
We explore a couple of new programs for the computer and iPod that let you make your own ambient dreamscapes. One is the Buddha Machine and the other is Brian Eno's Bloom.
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Echoes Interview feature - Kaya Project
Seb Taylor is a musician of many guises, recording under ...
Seb Taylor is a musician of many guises, recording under the names Hibernation, Shakta, and Digitalis. But his most fertile persona has been as Kaya Project with his partner, Natasha Chamberlain. Their third full-length album, And So It Goes, expands on the merger of ethno-electronica with world music exotica. Taylor talks about mixing global musicians with his own electronics and slide guitar in a world music of the imagination.
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Echoes Interview feature - Johann Johannsson
Johann Johannsson's CD Fordlandia was one of the most haunting ...
Johann Johannsson's CD Fordlandia was one of the most haunting albums of 2008 with its deep ambient chamber music designs. From his home in Reykjavik, Johannsson talks about music that explores the philosophical ramifications of IBM computers from the 1960s and the failed totalitarian utopia of Fordlandia.
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Echoes Interview feature - Johann Agebjorn
Johan Agebjorn is a musician who lives in two worlds ...
Johan Agebjorn is a musician who lives in two worlds connected by electronic wires. With a project called Sally Shapiro, he makes smooth electronic dance music. Under his own name, he explores ambient sounds, environmental spaces and gothic tinged melodies. Agebjorn talks about his snow shrouded sound.
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Echoes Interview feature - John Gregorius
John Gregorius is a finger-style guitarist who places his instrument ...
John Gregorius is a finger-style guitarist who places his instrument in ambient soundscapes on his album, Heaven and Earth, our December CD of the Month. He has played rock and roll, but he merges Windham Hill-style acoustics with Steve Tibbetts-style landscaping. John Gregorius talks about his guitar journey, which includes the Christian imagery that suffuses his music.
