Hear Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters Interview Tonight on Echoes.
It’s been an Ulrich Schnauss year here at Echoes. He had a CD of the Month in February this year with A Long Way to Fall and we interviewed him as well. Then he played live for us in early September and now he’s back again. It turned out that when he came in to play live he also had a forthcoming album with guitarist Mark Peters from Engineers, and it just so happened that Peters was tagging along with Schnauss on tour. So I sat them down to talk about their music for an alternate reality.
Ulrich Schnauss is one of the icons of downtempo electronica with albums like A Strangely Isolated Place and A Long Way to Fall. Mark Peters is a bit less well known in this country. He has a band called Engineers in England who play a dreamy brand of shoegaze music. He and Ulrich Schnauss hit it off so well that Schnauss actually joined Engineers. But the two musicians have also released a pair of duet albums for guitar and electronics. Their latest is Tomorrow is Another Day.
Ulrich Schnauss Live on Echoes
Highlights:
Mark Peters on The Beach Boys: It hit me really hard when I was kind of first learning to play guitar at 15. And then I’d just become a super nut about it and every last bootleg, every little clip on YouTube, everything is just…and I think it’s just, you know, kind of a classical type complexity that’s just so interesting.
John Dilibeto: You’re hardcore, aren’t you?
Mark Peters: Big time. Bit of a geek. Yeah, Ulrich’s got his head in his hands.
Ulrich Schnauss on altered states: That’s the point at the end of the day, like you’re trying to create something that doesn’t reflect the reality that surrounds you, but something that actually creates the opposite, a counterpoint to reality, an alternative or a utopia.
Hear Ulrich Schnauss and Mark Peters tonight on Echoes.
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