Erik Wøllo & Michael Stearns Converge: The Echoes Interview
We talk about brain tumors, dreams pandemic and some of the best music of 2020 when we talk with Erik Wøllo and Michael Stearns. Stearns is a legend of electronic music from the 1980s. His album, Planetary Unfolding is a classic. Erik Wøllo isn’t far behind with 5 CD of the Month Picks over the last 30 years. But their first collaboration, Convergence almost got terminated.
Michael Stearns: I took the train down to Berlin to visit a friend for 3-4 days before I came back here. And I had a seizure and they took me to the hospital and discovered a brain tumor, so I was in Berlin for the whole month of March and got the last flight out on United Airlines back to the US.
We talk with Erik Wøllo and Michael Stearns about the trauma and dreams behind their September CD of the Month, Convergence , on Echoes.
Read John Diliberto’s review of Convergence.
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Weekend, Oct 10-11, 2020 – Echoes Program 2040A
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Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:01 | Michael Stearns | Spanish Twilight | Floating Whispers |
| 0:06:01 | Marya Stark | Echo | Sapphire |
| 0:11:47 | Andreas Vollenweider | Polyhymnia (featuring Isabel Gehweiler) | Quiet Places |
| 0:16:47 | Katherine de Rosset | In The World and Yet | The Tower |
| 0:20:08 | Sufjan Stevens | Run Away With Me | The Ascension |
| 0:24:11 | Ka Fu | The Hope Is Open | The Hope Is Open (Single) |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:00 | Interview: Erik Wollo & Michael Stearns | ||
| 0:43:35 | Erik Wollo & Michael Stearns | Triptyk | Convergence |
| 0:53:04 | Hiroki Okano | Quantum Leap Breeze Pt.5 | Quantum Leap Breeze |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:01 | Rise | Dark Cloud | Strangers |
| 1:06:01 | Digitonal | Sentences | Set the Weather Fair |
| 1:11:13 | Gracie And Rachel | Underneath | Hello Weakness, You Make Me Strong |
| 1:14:35 | ERA C T NOD 1 | Facil (Yppah Edit) | FÁCIL |
| 1:18:07 | Michael Whalen | Cherry Blosom Heart | Karmic Dreams |
| 1:23:47 | Thomas Lemmer & Christoph Sebastian Pabst | Gebirgsbachtürkis | Gebirgsbachtürkis (Single) |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:01 | Michael Rother | Out in the Rain | Dreaming |
| 1:34:59 | Kevin Braheny Fortune | Heartcall | Eclectic Electric Singles |
| 1:47:49 | Shekina Rose | Dolphin Prayer | The New Earth Frequency |
| 1:51:10 | Svara | Lunar Bounce | Svara |
We pull back the sheets and go under the covers on the next Echoes. We’ll hear songs you know by people who didn’t originally record them including new version of music by Roxy Music, Phil Collins, Cocteau Twins, The Beatles and of course, Pink Floyd.
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Weekend, Oct 10-11, 2020 – Echoes Program 2040B
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Group Name |
Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:01 | onDeadWaves | Comfortably Numb (DuskVersion) | Comfortably Numb (DuskVersion) Single |
| 0:06:01 | Japancakes | To Here Knows When | Loveless |
| 0:10:33 | Purity Ring | Better Off Alone | Better Off Alone (single) |
| 0:14:15 | Bill Frisell | Telstar | Guitar in the Space Age |
| 0:17:17 | Orbital | Doctor Who | The Altogether |
| 0:22:45 | Isobel Campbell | Runnin’ Down A Dream | There Is No Other |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:01 | Icebreaker | Weightless (with BJ Cole) | Apollo |
| 0:34:01 | Clannad | Who Knows Where the Time Goes | In A Lifetime |
| 0:38:04 | Jake Shimabukuro | Wish You Were Here | Jake Shimabukuro Trio |
| 0:42:51 | Al Di Meola | Strawberry Fields Forever | Across the Universe |
| 0:48:35 | break | ||
| 0:49:20 | Azam Ali | Shallow Then Halo | Phantoms |
| 0:53:53 | Wouter Kellerman | Rings | In A Different Light |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:01 | Tom Caufield | Warszawa | Deep Cuts From The Moral Wilderness |
| 1:06:01 | Half Waif | Murphy Bed | You Think It’s Like This But Really It’s Like This |
| 1:09:08 | Christopher Tignor | Ode to Joy | Composure |
| 1:14:07 | Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky | In the Air Tonight | In the Air Single |
| 1:19:42 | Maya Beiser | Epitaph | Uncovered |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:01 | Rodrigo y Gabriela | Echoes | Mettavolution |
| 1:48:33 | Shel | Enter Sandman | Just Crazy Enough |
| 1:51:17 | Moby | My Only Love | All Visible Objects |
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