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 - A Winged Victory for the Sullen
Adam Wiltzie from Stars of the Lid and Dustin O’Halloran ...
Adam Wiltzie from Stars of the Lid and Dustin O’Halloran have created an ambient chamber music merging electronics and strings. They've just released their second album, Atomos, and they talk with us about modern classical music in an alternative landscape.
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Echoes feature - Wax Tailor
French DJ and producer Wax Tailor is in a lineage ...
French DJ and producer Wax Tailor is in a lineage with French musique concrete pioneers Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer. Tailor infuses music from the real world and creates elaborate collages, however, his soundscapes are pinned by down-tempo, hip-hop rhythms cut with film dialog. He's just released the most ambitious album of 2014, with Phonovision Symphonic Orchestra. Tailor discusses his origins as a DJ and the expansive themes of his music.
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Echoes feature - Philip Selway
Philip Selway, best known as the drummer for Radiohead, is ...
Philip Selway, best known as the drummer for Radiohead, is also a singer-songwriter who has just released his second album Weatherhouse. Selway reveals himself as a multi-instrumentalist with an inviting soulful voice, singing music of deep melodies and often melancholy themes, couched in psychedelic shaded arrangements. We talk to him about his perfect album of dream pop which is the Echoes CD of the Month for November.
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Echoes feature - Bassnectar
His fans are called Bassheads and he sells out venues ...
His fans are called Bassheads and he sells out venues like Madison Square Garden. Bassnectar is the recording persona of Lorin Ashton. He doesn’t play a conventional instrument, and his sound is a sonic collage, mixing other records and sounds over throbbing beats and deep bass. Lorin Ashton talks about the genesis of Bassnectar including his latest album, Noise vs Beauty, a title that sums up his aesthetic.
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Echoes feature - Orenda Fink
We know her as one half of the dream-pop masters ...
We know her as one half of the dream-pop masters of slo-mo melancholy, Azure Ray. But Orenda Fink has a new album of her own, Blue Dream. She talks abut the death of her dog and the ensuing depression and dreams that led her to explore existential themes of life and death and relationships.
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Echoes feature - Love Inks
Love Inks is a trio from Austin who don’t sound ...
Love Inks is a trio from Austin who don’t sound like the usual rootsy country dusted rock, psychedelic revivalists and the odd post-rock band that come out of that city. Instead, this trio is creating a minimalist dream-pop, with the barest of rhythms, the most austere arrangements and the soulful voice of Sherry LeBlanc. They come into Echoes to talk about their barebones dream pop heard on their album, Exi.
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Echoes feature - Jeff Pearce
Jeff Pearce is a leading exponent of ambient guitar, creating ...
Jeff Pearce is a leading exponent of ambient guitar, creating beautiful melodic sound fields and deep drone zone spaces. He’s been putting out beautiful music since the early 90s and has collaborated with artists like Will Ackerman, Kevin Keller and Paul Avgerinos. He recently released the album With Evening Above. Pearce talks about taking piano lessons from Phillip Aaberg and developing his own unique voice.
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Echoes feature - Alan Howarth
For Halloween, we return to an interview with horror-movie composer ...
For Halloween, we return to an interview with horror-movie composer Alan Howarth. Fright is an element in a lot of the movies he's scored, including several Halloween films and Escape from New York. We talk to this composer about electronic music in films.
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Echoes feature - Maya Beiser
Maya Beiser has been called a cello goddess. She was ...
Maya Beiser has been called a cello goddess. She was a founding member of New York's innovative new music group Bang on a Can, and can be found playing the music of composers like Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen and other giants of modern classical music. But on her new album, Uncovered, it's classic rock that finds its way under the cellist's bow. She electrifies her cello with a guitarist's array of effects pedals and performs Evan Ziporyn's imaginative arrangements of songs by Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, King Crimson and AC-DC. Maya Beiser and producer/arranger Evan Ziporyn talk about her music for power cello.
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Echoes feature - Low Roar
Low Roar is the performance vehicle of Ryan Karazija, an ...
Low Roar is the performance vehicle of Ryan Karazija, an American musician who moved to Iceland four years ago. His music is a breathy, spacey, atmospheric dream-pop that seems to emerge from the edges of consciousness. He's just released his second album, called "0".
