Wires & Wind - Peter Phippen & Eric "the" Taylor: The Echoes interview
Our CD of the Month in September was Two by Twilight from Peter Phippen and Eric “The” the Taylor. Today, I’ve got both musicians talking about what went into making an album that brought two veteran musicians together for the first time. Phippen is a highly regarded world flutist who started out in the Native flute scene. Taylor has been working in the ambient world. They merged in a meeting of architecture and improvisation.
Peter Phippen: “Yeah, I don’t like to think when I’m playing. It’s the old Taoist philosophy. No thinking, no mind, no mind, no problem. So I don’t like to repeat myself.”
Peter Phippen and Eric “the” Taylor want to take you into a contemplative state on Two by Twilight. But this isn’t the kind of music found on countless cookie-cutter “Music for Meditation” albums. That’s not their intent at all. Two by Twilight takes you into a land of imagination. They travel in a landscape of organic moss and digital vines, creating a world transformed and surreal. John Diliberto talks to them on Echoes from PRX.
Read John Diliberto’s review of Two by Twilight
Read John Diliberto’s review of David Helpling & Eric “the” Taylor’s The Precious Dark
Hear our interview with Eric “the” Taylor and David Helpling in the Echoes Podcast
Hear our interview with Eric “the” Taylor and Dark Sky Alliance in the Echoes Podcast
| Start Time | Running Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weekend, September 19-20, 2026 – Program 2637A | ||||
| First Half Hour | ||||
| 0:01:00 | 5:00 | Dark Sky Alliance | The Desert Mind | Interdwell |
| 0:06:00 | 2:57 | Thunder Bae | Crystal Ball | A Woman |
| 0:09:16 | 4:49 | Julia Holter | Materia 2 | Materia |
| 0:13:52 | 3:50 | Mark Isham | Number Theory | At the Carousel Club |
| 0:17:36 | 3:16 | Elephant Stone | A Beautiful Fate | ASHA |
| 0:20:33 | 8:17 | Syndromeda | Movement #5 | The World In Motion |
| 0:29:30 | 0:30 | Shambhu | Resilience (excerpt) | Lotus Dream |
| Second Half Hour | ||||
| 0:30:00 | 14:27 | Interview: Peter Phippen & Eric “the” Taylor | ||
| 0:45:00 | 5:29 | Peter Phippen & Eric “the” Taylor | Time Table | Two by Twilight |
| 0:50:16 | 6:57 | Peter Phippen & Eric “the” Taylor | Zuwara – Place of the Elders | Two by Twilight |
| 0:59:00 | 1:00 | Felsman & Tiley | Seeker (excerpt) | Protomensch |
| Third Half Hour | ||||
| 1:01:00 | 4:49 | Jack Wyllie | Juniper | Eternal Spring |
| 1:06:00 | 3:44 | Jon Batiste | Always Know | Monk Meditations |
| 1:09:30 | 5:55 | Gaspar Claus | El Paradís Són Els Altres | Cells |
| 1:14:43 | 5:10 | Marconi Union and Jah Wobble | Reality Crash | Anomic |
| 1:19:34 | 6:26 | KARYYN | PULL | Physics Universal Love Language (PULL) |
| 1:25:53 | 2:49 | Michael Stearns | A Moment Before | Floating Whispers |
| 1:29:30 | :30 | Michael Hewett | Gold (Live on Echoes) (excerpt) | Victoria Place: Echoes Live 23 (v/a) |
| Fourth Half Hour | ||||
| 1:30:00 | 6:37 | Sigur Rós | Dauðalogn | Valtari |
| 1:35:28 | 5:22 | Joshua Hill | Blue Left Hand | Cowboy Dream (Acceptance Is An Arrow) |
| 1:40:49 | 0:45 | Break | ||
| 1:41:49 | 5:27 | Will Ackerman | The Five Sisters | Home |
| 1:47:04 | 4:12 | Goldfrapp | Stranger | Tales Of Us |
| 1:50:50 | 4:58 | Quiet Resonance | Headlong Into the Surf | Flying Against the Wind |
On the next Echoes, Thelonius Monk goes serene with Jon Batiste. We’ll also hear guitarist Will Ackerman and his meditative album, Home. John Diliberto is right at home on Echoes from PRX.
| Start Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekend, Sept 19-20, 2026 – Program 2637B | |||
| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:01:00 | Carl Weingarten | Western Overnight | Life Under Stars |
| 0:06:00 | Sheila Chandra | Ever So Lonely / Eyes / Ocean | Echo |
| 0:10:34 | Peter Phippen & Eric “the” Taylor | Feeling the Question Why | Two by Twilight |
| 0:14:18 | Julia Holter | My Twin | Materia |
| 0:17:39 | Liquid Bloom/Share the Light/Awamani | Crystal Cave | Crystal Cave (Single) |
| 0:23:40 | Steve Hackett & Steve Rothery | Sandsend | The Roaring Waves |
| 0:29:30 | Michael Hewett | Gold (Live on Echoes) (excerpt) | Victoria Place – Echoes Live 23 |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | Leo Abrahams | The Grape And The Grain | The Grape And The Grain |
| 0:33:00 | Carolyn Currie | Echolocation | Echolocation |
| 0:37:20 | Will Ackerman | Snow’s Stone | Home |
| 0:43:40 | Break | ||
| 0:44:34 | Mark Peters | Amulet | Amulet (Single) |
| 0:49:45 | Alex Amor | Seeing Angels | Heavenly Bodies |
| 0:53:00 | Steven Halpern | Sakura | Spectrum Suite |
| 0:59:00 | Immersion | Change of Use (excerpt) | WTF??? |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | Carmen Rizzo | Until You Find Another | Looking Through Leaves |
| 1:06:00 | Moya Brennan | Harpsong | Two Horizons |
| 1:09:38 | Antaeus/Madame Gandhi/Cafe De Anatolia/amani sol | Home | Ekta |
| 1:13:22 | Jon Batiste | Reflections | Monk Meditations |
| 1:17:37 | Ólafur Arnalds | Words Of Amber | For Now I Am Winter |
| 1:20:46 | Shearwater | Even Song | The New World |
| 1:24:17 | Suzanne Perry | Ladonna Dissima (2026) | There’ll Be No More Promises (ep) |
| 1:29:30 | Blow Up Hollywood | Adrift (excerpt) | Blow Up Hollywood |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | Steve Hillage | Garden Of Paradise [2006 Digital Remaster] | Rainbow Dome Musick |
| 1:50:57 | Amethystium | Innocence | Evermind |
| 1:55:30 | John Carpenter | The Mapmaker | Cathedral |