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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 - Rudy Perrone

    Rudy Perrone is a guitarist from Long Island who played ...

    Rudy Perrone is a guitarist from Long Island who played progressive rock with a band called Cathedral and explored solo music as an acoustic player. His CD, The Language of Spirits, was produced by Windham Hill Records founder and guitarist, Will Ackerman. Rudy Perrone talks about his journey from prog rock to idyllic acoustics.

    Oct 23, 2008 Read more
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    Echoes Interview feature - Fernwood

    Fernwood is a group that's hard to pin down. They ...

    Fernwood is a group that's hard to pin down. They mix Americana elements with Appalachian strings along with bouzoukis from the Middle East and Ireland and sitars from India. Headed up by Todd Montgomery and Gayle Ellett who also plays guitar in the ultra-progressive rock band, Djam Karet, Fernwood creates a global chamber music with Americana accents and cinematically inclined melodies. Fernwood talks about music made on wooden instruments, on Echoes.

    Oct 16, 2008 Read more
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    Echoes Interview feature - Jesse Cook

    Jesse Cook was among a wave of flamenco inspired guitarists ...

    Jesse Cook was among a wave of flamenco inspired guitarists who came along in the wake of Ottmar Liebert's Nouveau Flamenco. But he's risen above the crowd with a combination of charismatic showmanship and melodically driven tunes. Jesse comes to the Echoes studio with his band to talk about life after children and turning a Bob Dylan tune into a Rhumba.

    Oct 9, 2008 Read more
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    Echoes Interview feature - Lights Out Asia

    They aren't from Asia, but this Milwaukee trio is making ...

    They aren't from Asia, but this Milwaukee trio is making an exotic brand of post-rock music merged with ambient aesthetics. They layer guitars, keyboards, drums and electronics in cinematic landscapes that have a heroic sound despite some foreboding titles like Radars Over the Ghosts of Chernobyl. We talk to these architects of ambient rock about roots that go from shoegazer rock to New Age music.

    Oct 2, 2008 Read more
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    Echoes Interview feature - Al Di Meola - In the Echoes Chamber

    Al Di Meola came to renown with Chick Corea's Return ...

    Al Di Meola came to renown with Chick Corea's Return to Forever, garnered his own fame with a string of signature fusion albums, and then returned to acoustic guitar for world fusions and tango dances. In the midst of his reunion tour with Return to Forever, AL Di Meola stepped into the Echoes Chamber, where he talked about music from those who influenced him and those he influenced.

    Sep 25, 2008 Read more
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    Echoes Interview feature - Near the Parenthesis

    Near The Parenthesis is the performance name of Tim Arndt. ...

    Near The Parenthesis is the performance name of Tim Arndt. He's a musician who mixes melodic piano lines with glitchy electronics and moody atmospheres. We go between the parentheses to find out the points and asides of his music.

    Sep 18, 2008 Read more
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    Echoes Interview feature - Juno Reactor

    Juno Reactor is a techno-ambient collective centered on Ben Watkins. ...

    Juno Reactor is a techno-ambient collective centered on Ben Watkins. He began as a more conventional techno-composer but has expanded his sound considerably to include flamenco guitars, Latin Chants and heavy metal thunder. In recent years he's composed music for the Matrix films. Ben Watkins talks about his own music matrix.

    Sep 11, 2008 Read more
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    Echoes Interview feature - Ronn McFarlane

    Ronn McFarlane plays impeccable early music with the Baltimore Consort, ...

    Ronn McFarlane plays impeccable early music with the Baltimore Consort, but when he wasn't playing music from Renaissance masters like Anonymous, he was writing his own music which uses contemporary guitar playing techniques and a melodic sensibility that's more cinematic than baroque. Ronn McFarlane talks about his new music for lute on his CD Indigo Road

    Sep 4, 2008 Read more
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    Echoes Interview feature - John Cage - Thoughts in Sound

    JOHN CAGE - IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES Few contemporary composers had the ...

    JOHN CAGE - IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES Few contemporary composers had the influence of John Cage. From experimental music to minimalism, Brian Eno to George Winston, echoes of John Cage continue to resound to this day, more than 6 decades after his "Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano" were first published. John Cage was a conceptualist of sound who turned even silence into music as he did with his famous piece, 4 minutes and 33 seconds. John Cage died in August of 1992. but we hear his thoughts in sound from a 1987 interview.

    Aug 28, 2008 Read more
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    Echoes Interview feature - Alex De Grassi in the Echoes Chamber

    Alex De Grassi was among a handful of guitarists who ...

    Alex De Grassi was among a handful of guitarists who defined finger-style playing in the 1970s and 80s. We put Alex under the headphones and play him music sight unseen as he identifies contemporaries, influences and musical progeny.

    Aug 21, 2008 Read more
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