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 .
Read John Diliberto’s review of Convergence.
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Wednesday, Jan 6, 2021 – Echoes Program 2101C
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Group Name |
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 |
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