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 feature - Max Richter
Max Richter was among the first in the second generation ...
Max Richter was among the first in the second generation of ambient chamber music composers, creating haunting themes based in minimalist strategies. He recently recorded a reimagining of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and has scored films and TV shows like HBO's The Leftovers. Deutsche Grammophon has released a four-CD box set of his early recordings called Retrospective. He sits down to talk about his new take on classical paradigms.
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Echoes feature - Sherry Finzer
Sherry Finzer is a classical flute player who has discovered ...
Sherry Finzer is a classical flute player who has discovered another path, creating ambient chamber music with electronic orchestration and flute choirs. But her stops along that path include being an aerobics instructor and playing in a duo with a cowboy. Her album, Sanctuary III: Beyond the Dream was the Echoes CD of the Month in January. She talks about her musical concepts.
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Echoes feature - 7and5
7and5 is the recording moniker of John Nixon, a Detroit-based ...
7and5 is the recording moniker of John Nixon, a Detroit-based artist who came up recording techno music and commercial jingles before turning into a more electronica and New Age sound. He has released several albums and appeared on the Buddha Lounge and Buddha Groove collections. His latest album is Themes for a Grey Day. He talks about his electronic journey from Techno to jingles to chill.
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Echoes feature - Ricky Kej and Wouter Kellerman
Ricky Kej is an Indian musician steeped in the Bollywood ...
Ricky Kej is an Indian musician steeped in the Bollywood sound. Wouter Kellerman is a South African world music flutist. They got together for a global exploration called Winds of Samsara, which just won the Grammy Award for best New Age album. It merges Indian, African and Middle Eastern sounds into a hymn for peace dedicated to Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi. They talk about their trans-global collaboration.
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Echoes feature - Erik Scott
He played bass with Alice Cooper and Flo and Eddie, ...
He played bass with Alice Cooper and Flo and Eddie, and was a founding member of art-rock group, Sonia Dada. On his own, bassist Erik Scott creates atmospheric music centered on his melodic, bending bass lines. He talks about his new instrumental collection, Spirits and his attempt at vocal music on And the Earth Bleeds.
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Echoes feature - Remembering Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream
Edgar Froese, founder of the group Tangerine Dream, changed his ...
Edgar Froese, founder of the group Tangerine Dream, changed his cosmic address on January 20, 2015. We remember this groundbreaking, influential musician by looking back at our profile of Tangerine Dream, one of 20 Icons of Echoes. We hear from Edgar Froese himself, as well as several musicians who were inspired by Tangerine Dream.
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Echoes feature - Hundred Waters
Hundred Waters is a band out of Northern Florida who ...
Hundred Waters is a band out of Northern Florida who create a searing dreampop centered on electronic textures and the voice and melodies of Nicole Miglis. They recently released their second album, The Moon Rang Like a Bell. This band grew up listening to Echoes on WMFE in Orlando and it shows. They talk about it on Echoes.
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Echoes feature - Dry the River
Dry the River is a band from England that takes ...
Dry the River is a band from England that takes yearning songs and turns them into gorgeous harmonies surrounded by psychedelic arrangements reminiscent of bands from the 1960s like Love. They come in to talk about their latest album, Alarms in the Heart.
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Echoes feature - Tubular Bells for Two
Tubular Bells is one of the signature compositions of the ...
Tubular Bells is one of the signature compositions of the late 20th century. Composer Mike Oldfield played over a dozen instruments in this layered piece. Two musicians from Australia have taken on the challenge of playing it live with no backing tracks or computers. They call themselves Tubular Bells for Two. They talk about the challenge of playing over 20 instruments in their live performances of this work.
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Echoes feature - Mary Lattimore and Jeff Zeigler
Electric harpist Mary Lattimore and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Zeigler are players ...
Electric harpist Mary Lattimore and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Zeigler are players in Philadelphia's alt-music scene working with artists like Thurston Moore, War on Drugs, Kurt Vile, and Sharon Van Etten. Together, they create improvised soundscapes at the borders of serenity and dissonance.
