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 - James Blackshaw
AN INTERVIEW WITH JAMES BLACKSHAW James Blackshaw is a young ...
AN INTERVIEW WITH JAMES BLACKSHAW James Blackshaw is a young English finger-style guitar who has roots in the rustic avant-garde Americana of John Fahey, but he's finding his own sound, one that looks to Indian and new classical music as much as folk.
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Echoes Interview feature - Jack Rose
AN INTERVIEW WITH JACK ROSE Jack Rose takes us to ...
AN INTERVIEW WITH JACK ROSE Jack Rose takes us to the outer edges of the acoustic guitar. Rose played in the avant-garde rock group Pelt before setting off on a solo guitar path that's part John Fahey and part something you've never heard before. We'll hear this idiosyncratic musician talk about his journey on Echoes.
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Echoes Interview feature - Mico Nonet
AN INTERVIEW WITH MICO NONET: Combining vintage pre-digital synthesizers and ...
AN INTERVIEW WITH MICO NONET: Combining vintage pre-digital synthesizers and symphonic instruments, Mico Nonet creates music that whispers at the edges of consciousness, where electronic and acoustic sounds converge as one. We talk with Joshua Kramer, cellist Efe Baltacigil and French horn player Paul Lafollette about their Mico Nonet.
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Echoes Interview feature - David Belmont
AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID BELMONT: David Belmont was a normal ...
AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID BELMONT: David Belmont was a normal guitar player until he heard the Paul Butterfield Band's East West. That set him on a course of Indian inflected finger-style guitar playing that he expands into his Windwater Ensemble. David Belmont talks about his guitar odyssey.
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Echoes Interview feature - David Arkenstone
DAVID ARKENSTONE'S SECRET SOURCES - David Arkenstone is a noted ...
DAVID ARKENSTONE'S SECRET SOURCES - David Arkenstone is a noted multi-instrumentalist with dozens of albums out on Narada and Windham Hill Records that explore a symphonic style of music with fantasy imagery. In his southern California home, he comments on music that formed his sound, from progressive rock to Celtic music and beyond.
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Echoes Interview feature - Demania
AN INTERVIEW WITH DEMANIA: Demania is an acronym for the ...
AN INTERVIEW WITH DEMANIA: Demania is an acronym for the three musicians in the band, finger style virtuoso Alex De Grassi, electric bass demon Michael Manring and tabla player Chris Garcia. On their own, each musician can create an ensemble of sound. Together, they play a world fusion that harkens back to John McLaughlin's Shakti. We talk to them about their eclectic approach to improvised world fusion.
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Echoes Interview feature - Shulman
AN INTERVIEW WITH SHULMAN: Shulman is an electronic duo mixing ...
AN INTERVIEW WITH SHULMAN: Shulman is an electronic duo mixing sounds from the middle east into the circuitry of their laptop computers. Israel is more war zone than chill zone, but Shulman finds an inner serenity.
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Echoes Interview feature - Ulrich Schnauss in the Echoes Chamber
AN INTERVIEW WITH ULRICH SCHNAUSS: Ulrich Schnauss is a German ...
AN INTERVIEW WITH ULRICH SCHNAUSS: Ulrich Schnauss is a German electronic artist who takes his forbears like Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk and keys that sound into contemporary electro rhythms, a bit of new wave shoegazer romanticism, and melodies that have the infinite, never-ending sound of a Pachelbel Canon. Ulrich Schnauss steps into the darkness of the Echoes Chamber to comment on the sources of his sound.
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Echoes Interview feature - Deva Premal and Miten
AN INTERVIEW WITH DEVA PREMAL AND MITEN: Deva Premal is ...
AN INTERVIEW WITH DEVA PREMAL AND MITEN: Deva Premal is one of the original modern chant Divas. She intones Hindu chants in her silken, air brushed voice over the trans-Indian arrangements of her longtime partner, Miten. We talk with them about chant in the modern world.
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Echoes Interview feature - Melanie Hutton and Marshall Lefferts
AN INTERVIEW WITH MELANIE HUTTON AND MARSHALL LEFFERTS: Melanie Hutton ...
AN INTERVIEW WITH MELANIE HUTTON AND MARSHALL LEFFERTS: Melanie Hutton and Marshall Lefferts work in a slipstream of global fusion that includes Dead Can Dance, Vas and Peter Gabriel. Hammered dulcimer player Hutton sings in a personal glossolalia, Lefferts is a guitarist with a penchant for Frank Zappa and eastern exotica. They got together on the album, Mystery of Souls.
