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 - Nucultures
AN INTERVIEW WITH NUCULTURES: AVANT-ROCKERS IN AN AMBIENT LOUNGE Nucultures ...
AN INTERVIEW WITH NUCULTURES: AVANT-ROCKERS IN AN AMBIENT LOUNGE Nucultures is a band put together by veteran Philadelphia avant-rocker and guitarist, Tim Motzer. With his wife, singer Ellie Perez and bassist Barry Meehan, they've created a sophisticated and intoxicating take on electro-lounge music. In their basement studio, NuCultures reveal the quirk and work behind their debut album, Butterflies, Zebras and Moonbeams.
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Echoes Interview feature - Qntal
AN INTERVIEW WITH QNTAL: MEDIEVAL ROCK FROM GERMANY Old German ...
AN INTERVIEW WITH QNTAL: MEDIEVAL ROCK FROM GERMANY Old German hurdy gurdys and a statuesque medieval singer collide with synthesizers and grooves with Qntal. Principals Michael Popp and Sigrid Hausen also perform in the more traditional early music group Estampie. They talk about their medieval and modern worlds.
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Echoes Interview feature - Japancakes
AN INTERVIEW WITH JAPANCAKES - AMBIENT COUNTRY ROCK Japancakes are ...
AN INTERVIEW WITH JAPANCAKES - AMBIENT COUNTRY ROCK Japancakes are a band from Athens, Georgia that mixes electric guitar with pedal steel guitar, classical strings with synthesizers and emerges with a sound that's got country airs strung out in classical refrains. We interview three of the central figures in this band that expands the alternative Athens tradition.
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Echoes Interview feature - Mickey Hart and Zakir Hussain - Global Drum Project
AN INTERVIEW WITH MICKEY HART and ZAKIR HUSSAIN - PLANET ...
AN INTERVIEW WITH MICKEY HART and ZAKIR HUSSAIN - PLANET DRUM KEEPS BEATING. In 1976, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and Indian tabla wizard Zakir Hussain created the Diga Rhythm Band. In 1991 that morphed into Planet Drum and now they return with the Global Drum Project. We gather the two percussionists to talk about creating their 21st century global percussion orchestra.
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Echoes Interview feature - Jeff Oster
AN INTERVIEW WITH JEFF OSTER: BUILT TO LOOP. Jeff Oster ...
AN INTERVIEW WITH JEFF OSTER: BUILT TO LOOP. Jeff Oster grew up as a traditional trumpet player, blowing Tower of Power horn lines. Now he's reinvented himself, transforming into a digital designer. Finding collaborators and sounds on-line, he's just crafted his second CD of ambient horn music, TRUE. It was our Echoes CD of the Month in September. We talk with Jeff Oster and Will Ackerman about the looping logic of TRUE.
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Echoes Interview feature - Michael Brook - Secret Sources
MICHAEL BROOK - SECRET SOURCES Michael Brook has been at ...
MICHAEL BROOK - SECRET SOURCES Michael Brook has been at the bleeding edge of new music, working with Brian Eno, collaborating with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, scoring films like An Inconvenient Truth and recording his own albums like last year's RockPaperScissors. In his Los Angeles studio, Michael comments on music that has influenced his career and music he has influenced.
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Echoes Interview feature - The Music of ECM
HORIZONS TOUCHED: THE MUSIC OF ECM. ECM Records defined a ...
HORIZONS TOUCHED: THE MUSIC OF ECM. ECM Records defined a style of music that evokes a sense of space, contemplation and nuance to anyone who listens. A new book called Horizons Touched: The Music of ECM, goes behind the scenes with interviews from over 100 ECM artists and founder Manfred Eicher. We hear from editor and ECM producer Steve Lake and some of those artists.
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Echoes Interview feature - Anoushka Shankar and Karsh Kale
ANOUSHKA SHANKAR AND KARSH KALE INTERVIEW: OCEANS OF TRADITION. Anoushka ...
ANOUSHKA SHANKAR AND KARSH KALE INTERVIEW: OCEANS OF TRADITION. Anoushka is the sitar-playing daughter of Ravi Shankar who is equally at home with Indian classical and Goa electronica. Karsh Kale is a beat master as comfortable with a tabla drum as a computer. They recently got together on a new CD called Breathing Under Water that ranges from traditional Indian to pop songs with guest appearances by Ravi Shankar, Sting and Anoushka's sister, Norah Jones
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Echoes Interview feature - AndyMcKee
ANDY MCKEE INTERVIEW: YOU TUBE PHENOMENON. Andy McKee is a ...
ANDY MCKEE INTERVIEW: YOU TUBE PHENOMENON. Andy McKee is a fingerstyle guitarist in the tradition of Michael Hedges, and he also plays harp guitar. He's best-known for the You Tube video for his tune Drifting, which has been viewed over 7 million times. Andy McKee talks about his YouTube stardom and the guitar playing that got him there.
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Echoes Interview feature - Russel Walder
RUSSEL WALDER INTERVIEW: RISE ASCENDS A former Windham Hill oboist ...
RUSSEL WALDER INTERVIEW: RISE ASCENDS A former Windham Hill oboist orchestrates an ambient chamber music masterpiece. Russel Walder was a mainstay of the 1980s instrumental music scene. He recorded on Windham Hill Records in a duo with pianist Ira Stein and guested on many other records. After many years and emigration to New Zealand he's released a new solo CD that merges ambient chamber music, world music and electronica. From his home in New Zealand, Russel Walder talks about his musical transformation.
