Robert Rich and the Long Now: The Echoes Interview
Robert Rich is the 11th of 30 Icons of Echoes, and has been a fixture on the show from the first day. He’s a polymath who is not only adept at many instruments but many other disciplines. They include audio recording and mastering, wine making and dream theory. He writes poetry, seriously, and he creates beautifully abstract, often primal paintings that you can buy on his website. He’s an artist of questing intellectualism, which is what brought him to the poetry of Tu Fu from the Chinese Tang Dynasty. The Zen-like poems, translated by David Hinton, compelled Rich to create the sensual, ethereal moods of his album, Travelers’ Cloth. But there’s more than that, including Rich’s youthful hippie, techno-futurism, his current anti-humanism and rain drops falling on his head. We talk all about it on Echoes from PRX.
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Read John Diliberto’s CD of the Month review of Robert Rich’s Travelers’ Cloth
Robert Rich’s Travelers’ Cloth was #1 on The Best of Echoes 2023, So Far. See the complete list.
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Weekend, July 22-23, 2023 – Echoes Program 2329A |
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Group Name |
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Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:00 | AMAARA | Photographs | Child of Venus |
| 0:06:00 | Balmorhea | Held | Pendant World |
| 0:09:50 | Lamb | The Silence in Between | The Secret of Letting Go |
| 0:12:53 | BT | k-means clustering- Producer’s Cut | The Secret Language of Trees |
| 0:20:16 | Alu | Land of Nothing | Mrs. Hypochondriac |
| 0:23:43 | Plaid | Melifer | The Digging Remedy |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:00 | Interview: Robert Rich | ||
| 0:46:55 | Robert Rich | Loom of Origins | Travelers’ Cloth |
| 0:53:34 | Rose of the West | Roads | Rose of the West |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:00 | Erik Scott | Victory | In the Company of Clouds |
| 1:06:00 | Nashville Ambient Ensemble | Prism | Light and Space |
| 1:11:39 | Kinobe | Falling Star | Over the Horizon |
| 1:16:10 | Symbion Project | Arcadian | Arcadian |
| 1:20:58 | Taiyō Rey | Maybe in Berlin | Shattering Stimuli |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:00 | Austra | It’s Amazing | Hirudin |
| 1:34:15 | Johan Agebjörn | Dulciter Somni (Subtracted Version) | Subtracted Soundscapes |
| 1:38:41 | London Grammar | Dancing By Night (with Sebastian) | Dancing by Night (Single) |
| 1:42:14 | Grandbrothers | Bloom | Late Reflections |
| 1:47:24 | break | ||
| 1:48:14 | Sigur Rós | Fall | ATTA |
| 1:51:28 | Quiet Resonance | Rescue | Snowblind |
New music by London Grammar who team up with electronic producer, Sebastian. We’ll also hear Caroline Lavelle who is the cellist with Loreena McKennitt and the singer with Secret Sky. She has a new solo album, The Raven. Quoth the Raven, Evermore to John Diliberto on Echoes from PRX.
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Weekend, July 22-23, 2023 – Echoes Program 2329B |
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Start Time |
Group Name |
Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:01 | David Pritchard | Moonstone | Evanescent |
| 0:06:00 | Jami Sieber & Kim Rosen | Island (poem by Langston Hughes) | Feast of Losses |
| 0:08:28 | Slow Meadow & Eric Christian | Dans le Noir (Slow Meadow Rework) | Dans le Noir |
| 0:14:05 | London Grammar | Dancing by Night (with Sebastian) | Dancing by Night (Single) |
| 0:17:38 | Akriza & Mah Ze Tar | Better Star | Where You Are Now |
| 0:21:27 | One Arc Degree | Oceans Gone | The Forest and the Milky Way |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:00 | Amaara | Bright Lights | Child of Venus |
| 0:33:16 | Banco de Gaia | Big Men Cry | Big Men Cry |
| 0:39:22 | George FitzGerald | Venera | Not As I (EP) |
| 0:42:29 | Michael Rother & Vittoria Maccabruni | You Look at Me | As Long as the Light |
| 0:47:20 | break | ||
| 0:48:22 | Agnes Obel | It’s Happening Again | Citizen of Glass |
| 0:52:34 | Richard Burmer | Across The View | Western Spaces (v/a) |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:00 | Mythos | Legacy | XXV |
| 1:06:00 | Sunstrom Sound | Sweetender Neverender | Honeycrunch |
| 1:10:13 | Caroline Lavelle | The Raven | The Raven |
| 1:15:09 | Wax Tailor | Phonovisions | Phonovisions Symphonic Orchestra |
| 1:20:30 | Gary Numan | The End of Dragons | Intruder |
| 1:25:35 | Pink Floyd | Ebb and Flow | The Endless River |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:00 | Nucultures | Behind the Moon | Butterflies Zebras and Moonbeams |
| 1:34:32 | Eric Hilton | Corazón Kintsugi (feat. Natalia Clavier) | Corazón Kintsugi |
| 1:38:26 | break | ||
| 1:39:24 | Mickey Hart | Slow Sailing | At the Edge |
| 1:43:52 | Lumenette | Alaska | All Around My Head |
| 1:48:42 | Michael Hoenig | Hanging Garden Transfer | Departure from the Northern Wasteland |
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