Lou Reed Interview Revisited
Before he died in 2013, Lou Reed created an ambient album called Hudson River Wind Meditations that tapped into his spiritual side. Now that the album is being re-released in a deluxe edition, we go back to our interview with Reed talking about it.
Lou Reed was an iconic figure in modern music. The founder of The Velvet Underground, he provided a counterpart to the hippies and flower power of the era, trawling a darker and seedier side of life. As a solo artist, he did the same thing, with a lean, distorted guitar sound and songs that were often grittier than a back alley. But there’s another side to Lou Reed, one that’s experimental and meditative. One example came out on the 2007 CD, Hudson River Wind Meditations. It was an all-electronic disc of drones and ambiences. We don’t play Lou Reed often on Echoes for obvious reasons, but I thought: when else would I have an opportunity to interview him? From our interview in 2007, Lou Reed talks about a meditative river on Echoes from PRX.
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Monday, March 25, 2024 – Echoes Program 2413A |
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Group Name |
Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:00 | William Orbit | She Cries Your Name (feat. Beth Orton) | Strange Cargo: Hinterland |
| 0:06:00 | Hyrn | Planetary Urbanism | Architektur (v/a) |
| 0:11:33 | Peter Gabriel | The Court (Dark-Side Mix) | i/o |
| 0:15:39 | Moby | We’re Going Wrong (feat. Brie O’Banion) | We’re Going Wrong |
| 0:18:32 | Koan | Blanchard (Blue Mix) | Hot Air (Single) |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:30 | Interview: Lou Reed | ||
| 0:39:03 | Lou Reed | Wind Coda | Hudson River Wind Meditations |
| 0:44:00 | White Sun | Suniai | White Sun II |
| 0:48:40 | David Lindsay | Ghost Dance | Ever So |
| 0:53:21 | Akira Kosemura | Empty Lake (feat. Clara Mann) | The Two of Us |
| 0:56:32 | Agnes Obel | Roscian | Myopia |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:00 | David Pritchard | Light Between Oceans | Among the Missing |
| 1:06:21 | Thomas Lemmer & Oine | Forever | Forever |
| 1:10:38 | David Darling & Hans Christian | Miracle | Ocean Dreaming Ocean |
| 1:17:10 | Bill Nelson | Push The Button Spin The Dial | All The Fun of the Fair |
| 1:21:06 | Evening Ocean | The Great Beauty | The Great Love |
| 1:24:11 | Vandelux | Afraid To Love | When the Light Breaks |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:00 | Sofía Campoamor | Ghost Ship | Ghost Ship |
| 1:32:27 | Steve Hillage | Garden Of Paradise | Rainbow Dome Musick |
| 1:51:48 | Lisa Gerrard / Jules Maxwell | Deshta (Forever) | Burn |
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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Tuesday, March 26, 2024 – Echoes Program 2413B |
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Group Name |
Song 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) |
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