Thursday, Aug 3, 2023 – Echoes Program 2331D

John Robb and the History of Goth: The Echoes Interview

John Robb

The sound of Goth has permeated music since the early 1980s, and continues to this day with artists like Bauhaus, The Cure, Dead Can Dance, and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Author and musician John Robb has created a definitive chronicle of this movement in his book, The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth.

They embrace the melancholy and dance the melancholy, you know, so there’s a darkness inherent in the music But also a joy as well. . . .And in a sense, it was reacting to the darker surroundings, but also escaping from them. It’s a dark escapism. And it’s also a dark psychedelia.

We go down the sonic cathedrals of Goth when we talk to John Robb on Echoes.

Thursday, August 3, 2023 – Echoes Program 2331D
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Start Time

Group Name

Song Name

Album Name

First Half Hour

0:01:00 Clannad Cití Na gCumann Nádúr
0:06:00 Anna Ayni Intentions
0:11:30 Ladytron City of Angels Time’s Arrow
0:16:05 Michael Whalen Morning Bell Our April Tigers
0:20:38 La Faute Blue Girl Nice Day Blue Girl Nice Day
0:23:39 Fabio Mittino Kanashimi Simple Music for Difficult People Vol.4

Second Half Hour

0:30:00 Interview: John Robb – The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth
0:45:55 Joy Division Love Will Tear us Apart Substance
0:49:10 The Cure Lovesong Disintegration
0:52:30 Siouxsie & The Banshees Arabian Knights Juju
0:55:29 David Bowie Warszawa Low

Third Half Hour

1:01:00 Patrick O’Hearn Sacrifice Indigo
1:06:00 Nashville Ambient Ensemble Prism Light and Space
1:11:47 Robert Rich Loom of Origins Travelers’ Cloth
1:18:44 Deborah Martin & Jill Haley Falling Away from the Earth Into the Quiet
1:24:42 Shana Cleveland A Ghost Manzanita

Fourth Half Hour

1:30:00 Beach House Become Become EP
1:35:42 Bela Fleck The B Tune As We Speak
1:44:53 break
1:46:07 Taiyō Rey Extending from Nano Shattering Stimuli
1:51:50 Lucinda Chua Echo Yian
1:55:50 Jonny Fallout Cybernaut (Album Version) Unknown Unknowns

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