Tonight on Echoes Hear an Interview with Tycho’s Scott Hansen
For most of the last decade there has been a strain of Rock music that didn’t really rock out, but instead took a more introspective and almost ambient course, often mixing guitars with electronics. And they usually don’t have singers, at least in a conventional sense. Explosions In the Sky, The Album Leaf, Hammock and Sigur Ros are among those groups. Add to that list Tycho. That’s a project put together by Scott Hansen who started out as an electronic musician but has found himself in a hybrid, Ambient Rock world. His latest album is Awake.
For Scott Hansen, Tycho isn’t just about music. It works on a visual level as well. “I tend to think of the project as an audio visual project,” he explains. “The music always comes first and then I try and illustrate the kind of space that that music represents with the art work.”
Tycho’s Dive
That’s because Hansen is not only a musician, but a visual artist known as iso50. He spent many years doing commercial work as a graphic artist. You’ve probably seen a lot of it. “I did a bunch of snowboards and skis and I did stuff for Diesel, some poster art, all this random, all sorts of stuff,” he reveals. “Twix, and Starburst and all sorts of like ad agency stuff back when I was doing that.”
His visual style is a mix of Bauhaus austerity (the art movement, not the band) and the elaborate San Francisco psychedelic poster art he saw in his parent’s record collection with The Doors, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Led Zeppelin.
Echoes John Diliberto & Tycho’s Scott Hansen
“That was my gateway into just kinda of understanding music to be in with the Beatles and all that stuff,” Hansen confesses. “But also the artwork behind them and the aesthetic that was applied to all those album covers and just the style–down to the way the people dressed and everything. That kind of informed from then on what I thought was like the architect for bands, and music and album covers and all that. So yeah, you can see that pop up in my work a lot.”
You can hear how that work pops up in his music tonight on Echoes when we revisit our 2012 interview with Hansen when he came into Echoes to play live.
Tycho recently released a new album, Awake. We interviewed Hansen back in 2012 when he released the last Tycho album, Dive and came into Echoes to play live. (You can hear a track from that on our CD,Transmissions. We return to that feature tonight on Echoes.
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