Weekend, Jan 25-26, 2025 – Programs 2503A & 2503B

David Lynch Remembered in Music

 

We lost a giant of the modern cultural world last week. Film and TV producer David Lynch left the planet at 78 years old.  He was born on January 20, 1946 in Missoula Montana, and left for the White Lodge on January 15, 2025. In between, he created a body of film and TV work that has been called visionary and enigmatic. He came to renown with the cult classic Eraserhead and followed up with the brilliant bio pic, Elephant Man. Then came Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Mulholland Drive. We won’t talk about his Dune movie, even if it did have a Brian Eno track in it. But most impactfully, he’s known for his TV series Twin Peaks. Brilliant, surreal, dark, funny and disturbing, it still resonates 35 years after its debut. Another thing that resonates is its soundtrack, written by Angelo Badalamenti, who died in 2022. A mix of 50s slow rock, dark blues and psychedelic overtones, it is still influencing generations of musicians, from Moby to SUSS. All of Lynch’s soundtracks were brilliant mixes of original music and songs that could go from 60s crooners like actor Connie Stevens to Nine Inch Nails. Tonight we’ll hear a set that will include music from Twin Peaks, his album Lux Vivens with Jocelyn Montgomery adapting the 11th century hymns of Abbess Hildegard Von Bingen, and tracks from Mulholland Drive and Wild at Heart.

I was fortunate to interview Lynch at his Los Angeles home when the Lux Vivens album came out in 1998.  We got a live performance there with singer Jocelyn Montgomery, who is now Jocelyn West. He was eloquent, thoughtful and a bit enigmatic.  My only regret is the interview centered entirely on the album and we didn’t talk at all about his films or soundtracks, but we sure got into religion. However, I did get a photo taken in his studio/theater. I’m top left. Jocelyn Montgomery/West is to my left, and audio engineer John Neff is at the bottom right. I can’t remember who the other people were, except of course, David Lynch, who is front and center with a carton of American Spirit cigarettes next to him, which ultimately killed him.

Weekend, January 25-26, 2025 – Echoes Program 2503A As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases
Start Time	Group Name	Song Name	Album Name
First Half Hour
0:01:00	Chris Isaak	Wicked Game	Heart Shaped World
0:06:00	SUSS	This Land is Your Land	This Land is Your Land
0:10:39	Ryan Farish	Light of Day	Sky Dweller
0:14:52	Statik Sound System	Free To Choose	In Dub Vol 1
0:19:06	MiDi BiTCH	Opis	Hyperborea
0:24:40	Stereo Hypnosis	Kleif	Hvolf
Second Half Hour
	In Memoriam: David Lynch
0:30:00	David Lynch & John Neff	Go Get Some	Mulholland Drive (OST)
0:37:05	Angelo Badalamenti	Twin Peaks Theme	Soundtrack from Twin Peaks
0:41:40	Julee Cruise	Up In Flames	The Voice of Love
0:45:48	The Chromatics	Shadow	Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series)
0:49:20	Jocylyn Montgomery &  David Lynch	O Tu Illustra	Lux Vivens
Third Half Hour
1:01:00	Bombay Dub Orchestra	Map Of Dusk	3 Cities
1:06:00	Brian Mulder	Cygnus	Cygnus
1:10:07	Shearwater	Detritivore	The Great Awakening
1:15:19	Andy Bell	I’m in Love (feat. Dot Allison and Michael Rother)	I’m In Love (Single)
1:19:54	Bill Nelson	A Splendid View	Studio Cadet
1:23:23	Cornelia Murr	Pushing East	Pushing East
Fourth Half Hour
1:30:00	Reinhardt Buhr	King of Heaven	Movement 2 Live
1:41:45	Slowdive	Alife	Everything is Alive
1:46:15	break
1:46:53	Emma Anderson	For a Moment (deary Dub Remix)	Spiralee:- Pearlies Rearranged
1:50:23	deepspace	Unmarked Area?	Neon Blue Utopia
1:54:33	Ambiente Solstice	I Remember Yesterday Differently	A Question of Time

On the next Echoes, the spirit of Leonardo Da Vinci transformed into electronic sound by DJ and producer Sasha. Da Vinci Genius is an immersive exhibit on the life of the Renaissance polymath. Sasha created a score that ranges from orchestrally cinematic to electronically grooving.  You won’t find the Renaissance music of Da Vinci’s era here.

Sasha: We did try taking kind of our modern instruments, our modern melodies and putting them onto kind of medieval instruments, but it ended up sounding like a bit of a pastiche, you know? The show itself is very technological and future-facing.

So is the music.

Sasha is a renowned DJ and record producer. He began his career in the late 1980s, playing acid house music, and rose to prominence in the 1990s through his partnership with fellow DJ John Digweed. Together, they produced influential mix albums like “Renaissance: The Mix Collection” and the “Northern Exposure” series, significantly shaping the progressive house and trance genres.  As a solo artist, Sasha has released notable albums, including “Airdrawndagger” (2002) and “Scene Delete” (2016). He has also remixed tracks for artists such as Madonna, Moby, and The Chemical Brothers. He was voted World No. 1 DJ in 2000 by DJ Magazine and receiving a Grammy nomination for his remix of Felix da Housecat’s “Watching Cars Go By.”  He released a beautiful ambient compilation, The EmFire Collection, that included his score to the surfing movie, “New Emissions of Light and Sound.”

Sasha talks about sculpting a soundtrack that finds Da Vinci in the future he helped create. Join John Diliberto with Sasha on Echoes from PRX.

Weekend, January 25-26, 2025 – Echoes Program 2503B As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases
Start Time	Group Name	Song Name	Album Name
First Half Hour
0:01:00	Russel Walder	The Longer Journey	Speak to the Storm
0:06:00	Vin Downes	The Coral Staircase	City Lights Hide the Stars
0:08:57	Deepspace	Vertical Automated Parking	Neon Blue Utopia
0:13:02	Yann Tiersen	Ninnog at Sea.	Rathlin from a Distance/The Liquid Hour
0:16:34	Ryan Farish	Light of Day	Sky Dweller
0:20:47	MiDi BiTCH	Boio	Hyperborea
Second Half Hour
0:30:00	Interview: Sasha
0:42:47	Sasha	Descent	Da Vinci Genius
0:46:28	Sonic Research Society	Smart Engines	Observers
0:50:29	Eric Hilton	Little Odessa (with The Infinite Daisy Chains)	Little Odessa
0:53:25	Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory	Afterlife	Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory
Third Half Hour
1:01:00	Dieter Spears	Somewhere Sometimes (feat. Beartone)	Late Day Summer Breeze
1:06:00	Billy Denk	Visions of Night	Beneath the Peaceful Sky
1:10:58	Explosions In The Sky	Ghosts	American Primeval (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)
1:13:29	Séamus Egan	Everything Always Was	Early Bright
1:17:53	Smoke Fairies	Take Me Down When You Go	Blood Speaks
1:22:14	John Foxx	No-One Driving	Glimmer
1:25:48	Brigitte Bardini	Inside Your Head	Stellar Lights
Fourth Half Hour
1:30:00	Digitonal	It Doesn’t Matter	Beautiful Broken
1:34:24	Michele McLaughlin	Starstuff	Undercurrent
1:37:28	RY X	Untold	Unfurl
1:41:38	break
1:42:09	Federico Albanese	Your Spell	Blackbirds and the Sun of October
1:44:51	Christoph Sebastian Pabst	Heard	Northern Isles
1:48:12	Stellarium	Kilonova Halo	Infinite Vector

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