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 - Fink
Fink is the curious moniker of Fin Greenall, an English ...
Fink is the curious moniker of Fin Greenall, an English musician who started as an electronic DJ before having an epiphany and turning into a singer-songwriter. His music is based on acoustic guitar themes and songs of tormented love, but he is far from a folky, as you can hear on his moody and compelling new CD, Hard Believer. Fink talks about his transition and expanding the singer-songwriter paradigm.
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Echoes feature - Agnes Obel
Agnes Obel is a Danish singer-songwriter creating a dreamy chamber ...
Agnes Obel is a Danish singer-songwriter creating a dreamy chamber pop sound. Her 2011 album Philharmonics was one of the Echoes top CDs in 2012 and a CD of the Month. Her music has found its way into films, commercials and a remix by film director David Lynch. Obel talks about tormented love, Roy Orbison and her latest CD, Aventine.
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Echoes feature - Phox
Phox is a Wisconsin-based band making a dreamy folk music ...
Phox is a Wisconsin-based band making a dreamy folk music that's centered on the voice of Monica Martin. We talk to the band about living in a group home, finding their musical voice and the sometimes traumatic stories behind Martin’s lyrics.
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Echoes feature - Yoed Nir
Yoed Nir is an Israeli born cellist steeped in classical ...
Yoed Nir is an Israeli born cellist steeped in classical music who took a left turn into rock, playing with pop artists like Regina Spector. He then took a stratospheric turn creating an ambient chamber music of cello orchestrations. He layers his cello in looping designs and electronic processes making a fantasy chamber music that’s part symphonic and part Hendrix. He talks about his journey.
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Echoes feature - Amatorski
Amatorski is a Belgian band fronted by Inne Eysermans and ...
Amatorski is a Belgian band fronted by Inne Eysermans and Sebastiaan Van Den Branden. They create an atmospheric, dusky brand of dream pop on their new CD, From Clay to Figures
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Echoes feature - Muriel Anderson
Muriel Anderson was a fingerstyle guitar champion and a mentee ...
Muriel Anderson was a fingerstyle guitar champion and a mentee of Chet Atkins and Les Paul. She creates a pastoral music drawing from folk, jazz and classical music, playing acoustic six-string and harp guitar. She talks about learning from Christopher Parkening and Chet Atkins and about her star-studded double CD, Nightlight Daylight with its illuminated cover.
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Echoes feature - John Luttrell
John Luttrell is a journeyman musician who grew up on ...
John Luttrell is a journeyman musician who grew up on Progressive Rock music. He’s been recording since 2000 and has just released an ambitious new album of guitar and keyboard orchestrations called The Dream Exchange. Luttrell talks about dreams, guitars and a journey from Venezuela to Orange County.
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Echoes feature - Jon Hassell
Jon Hassell's trumpet is one of the most distinct sounds ...
Jon Hassell's trumpet is one of the most distinct sounds in music, a breathy whisper magnified by harmonizers and other processing into a smooth chordal glissando. It’s been heard on records by Peter Gabriel, Ry Cooder and Talking Heads and he’s released a string of inventive albums on his own, including the influential Fourth World Volume 1: Possible Musics, with Brian Eno. In 1990, he put out the powerful album, City: Works Of Fiction, a sign-post in what came to be known as techno-tribal music, a merging of electronics and world music elements with heavy grooves. It’s just been reissued by All Saints Records in a deluxe set that includes a live performance from 1989 mixed by Brian Eno and an additional CD of outtakes and remixes. We revisit our 1989 interview with Jon Hassell.
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Echoes feature - Kaya Project
Kaya Project is the Ethno-Techo outlet for Seb Taylor who ...
Kaya Project is the Ethno-Techo outlet for Seb Taylor who also records as Hibernation, Shakta and Angel Tears. He has released a new album called Firedance that ups the rhythmic ante in a frenzy of darbuka grooves and seductive melodies. Seb Taylor and singer Irina Mikhailova talk about Kaya Project's latest excursion into ecstasy
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Echoes feature - Ceiri Torjussen
Ceiri Torjussen is a Welsh-born, classically-trained composer with jazz inclinations, ...
Ceiri Torjussen is a Welsh-born, classically-trained composer with jazz inclinations, who has recorded an electronic ambient score for the movie Test. Torjussen’s soundtrack uses classic 70s and 80s synthesizer sounds to create an atmosphere that echoes Brian Eno, Philip Glass and Depeche Mode.
