Cells, Smudges and Melody: Tim Story-The Echoes Interview
Tim Story used to be the ultimate melodicist with albums like The Perfect Flaw and Beguiled. But now he’s mutating sounds, often with German icon, Roedelius.
Tim Story is something of a legend in electronic and new age circles. He’s been recording since 1981 and was a pioneer in ambient chamber music with albums like Shadowplay. But he also has an edgier side that has come out in his work with the avant-garde German electronic duo Cluster and especially the elder member of that group. Hans-Joachim Roedelius. He’s pretty much abandoned his signature sound.
Tim Story: I have a lot of people that say boy, I love Beguiled or I love Shadow Play, it’s one of my favorite records — and you know, are you gonna make another record like that? And I feel bad in a way, but, but I can’t in some ways because I mean I could and I might actually still.
We talk to Tim Story, and Roedelius, about Story’s shift from a melody maven to a dissonant dreamer on Echoes from PRX.
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Monday, January 15, 2024 – Echoes Program 2403A |
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Start Time |
Group Name |
Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:00 | Tony Sieber | Let’s Do It | Ambient Guitar Tales |
| 0:06:00 | Peter Gabriel | Four Kinds of Horses (Dark-Side Mix) | i/o |
| 0:12:40 | Koan | Montgolfier (Blue Mix) | Hot Air (Single) |
| 0:21:17 | Jasper Sommer | Memento | Memento |
| 0:24:20 | Dub Spencer & Trance Hill | Fugu (Original Version) | Imago Cells |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:00 | Interview: Tim Story | ||
| 0:43:49 | Tim Story | Cell Four | The Roedelius Cells |
| 0:49:24 | Tim Story | Terzetto | The Perfect Flaw |
| 0:53:27 | Tim Story & Roedelius | Something Happened Here | Lunz |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:00 | Marissa Nadler | The Path of the Clouds | The Path of the Clouds |
| 1:06:00 | Iasos | Crystal White Fire Light | Elixir |
| 1:14:29 | Russel Walder | The Time Finds Us (Featuring Alina Renae) | Speak to the Storm |
| 1:19:17 | Shearwater | No Reason | The Great Awakening |
| 1:24:29 | Ann Licater | Dream Passages | Between the Stars |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:00 | Magenta Dusk | Close To Never | Last Light |
| 1:33:31 | Dave Preston | Romance | Life / Love |
| 1:37:36 | Bill Nelson | Sailing Through Skies of Blue | Starlight Stories |
| 1:40:56 | Rose of the West | Emotional Warfare | No Things Permanent |
| 1:45:30 | break | ||
| 1:46:43 | David Darling & Hans Christian | Minor Blue Chorale | Ocean Dreaming Ocean |
| 1:50:59 | March to May | If I Told You I Could Stay | Through the Night |
| 1:55:12 | Howling Loon | Leaving for Now | Leaving for Now (single) |
Today we journey into world fusion with Opium Moon. This is the Grammy winning ensemble who are part of a new wave of artists fusing sounds from the Middle east. Their music taps the overtly sensual sounds of this region. But Opium Moon’s Lili Hadyn says it’s all about the spirit.
Lili Hayden: Honestly, it’s all about flow. We’re letting the spirit move through us and if it’s coming though in a more sensual way, god bless. And if it comes in more of a sacred way than similarly.
We talk to this ensemble which includes acclaimed Canadian-American violinist violinist Lili Haydn, Iranian-American santurist Hamid Saeidi, American percussionist MB Gordy and Israeli-American bass guitarist Itai Disraeli. Their new album is Where We Are Gathered. There has, perhaps never been a better time for their music of unity. Hear it tonight on Echoes from PRX.
OPIUM MOON FEATURE PLAYLIST
Opium Moon – Time and Tide – Where We Are Gathered
Opium Moon – Wisdom – Night + Day
Opium Moon – When Their Wings – Night + Day
Opium Moon – Gravity=Love – Opium Moon
Opium Moon – Feast of Sevens – Night + Day
Opium Moon – Metta Prayer – Where We Are Gathered
Opium Moon – Through the Ages –Where We Are Gathered
Opium Moon – Woman Life Freedom – Where We Are Gathered
Opium Moon – The Mystery – Where We Are Gathered
Opium Moon – Back to the Beginning – Where We Are Gathered
Opium Moon – Through the Ages –Where We Are Gathered
Opium Moon – Of Kiss and Wing –Where We Are Gathered
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024 – Echoes Program 2403B |
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Start Time |
Group Name |
Song Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:00 | Mazzy Star | California | Seasons of Your Day |
| 0:06:00 | Pangaea Projekt | First Snow | Winter Vol. IX |
| 0:10:13 | Thomas Lemmer and Oine | Confidence | Confidence (Single) |
| 0:14:38 | Cigarettes After Sex | Motion Picture Soundtrack (MIX4) | Motion Picture Soundtrack (Single) |
| 0:19:28 | Mary Fahl | Beware of Darkness | Can’t Get It Out of My Head |
| 0:22:46 | Bill Nelson | A Wide Open Window (With A View Of The Stars) | Starlight Stories |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:00 | Opium Moon-Feature | ||
| 0:45:53 | Opium Moon | Through the Ages | Where We are Gathered |
| 0:50:08 | Dub Spencer & Trance Hill | Trance Plane (Original Version) | Imago Cells |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:00 | Mark Holland & Sherry Finzer | Leaving All Shadows Behind | Somewhere New |
| 1:06:00 | Twilight Archive | The Divining Rod | Mood Chain |
| 1:11:32 | Magenta Dusk | Youth | Last Light |
| 1:15:19 | Ruichi Sakamoto | Monster 2 | Monster (OST) |
| 1:17:47 | Myrkur | Mothlike | Spine |
| 1:21:48 | Moby | Inside | Play |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:00 | Syndromeda | Four | Liftoff to Infinity |
| 1:39:15 | Mercury Rev | Parchman Farm (Feat. Carice Van Houten) | Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited |
| 1:42:37 | Martina Topley-Bird | Anything | Anything |
| 1:47:00 | break | ||
| 1:47:53 | Michelle Qureshi | Electric Blue | A Day on Venus |
| 1:50:40 | Searows | End of the World | End of the World [EP] |
| 1:54:28 | One Alternative | Deep | Pendulum |
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