Fusion Ignited by Pete Roth Trio - The Echoes Interview with Pete Roth and Bill Bruford.
Bill Bruford is one of the greatest drummers of our age, and certainly the greatest in Progressive Rock, playing with Yes, King Crimson, UK and Earthworks. He retired 13 years ago and got a Doctorate in music. He claims to not even touched the drums in that time. But live performance pulled him back in the form of a younger musician, guitarist Pete Roth. They meet in a new space.
Pete Roth: I have to admit up until I met Bill, I didn’t know what Bill was doing and then I learned very quickly that I was being treated to a very prestigious teacher.
Bill Bruford: We have different touchstones, different reference points. It’s not much good, me talking to Pete about King Crimson. or Yes or anything like that. He doesn’t know what that music is. So I like that.
He’s a giant of progressive rock, but he’s only a sideman (wink-wink) with Pete Roth. We’ll be talking to them about their cross-generational approach to music on their album, Group Chat, and why Bruford came out of retirement after 13 years.
Hear our 2018 Interview with Bill Bruford
| Start Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, Sept 22, 2026 – Program 2638B | |||
| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:01:00 | Sun’s Signature | Bluedusk | Sun’s Signature EP |
| 0:06:00 | David Helpling & Scott Reich | The Simplest of Miracles | Through the Thought Horizon |
| 0:13:22 | Anima | Sacred Love | Universal Womb |
| 0:20:40 | Antaeus/Madame Gandhi/Cafe De Anatolia/amani sol | Kyrie | Ekta |
| 0:23:08 | Deepspace | Atlas 8 Arid Sector: I Think I Found Something Beautiful | The Atlas Sector |
| 0:29:30 | Immersion | A Long Way to Brooklyn (excerpt) | WTF??? |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | Interview: Pete Roth and Bill Bruford | ||
| 0:45:46 | Pete Roth Trio | Dancing With Grace | Full Circle |
| 0:51:27 | Harald Grosskopf | Flow | Glitches Brew |
| 0:59:00 | Bluetech | Nightvale (excerpt) | Sci-Fi Lullabyes |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | Tortoise | Night Gang | Touch |
| 1:06:00 | Michael Hedges | Silent Anticipations | Live On The Double Planet |
| 1:08:58 | Arlo Parks | Heaven | Ambiguous Desires |
| 1:13:17 | Gaspar Claus | Amour constrictor (fugue) | Cells |
| 1:18:22 | AvaWaves | Seahorse | Chrysalis |
| 1:21:27 | Caroline Polachek | On The Beach | On the Beach (Single) |
| 1:25:19 | Sine | Adrift (Oine Remix) | Adrift (Oine Remix) Single |
| 1:29:30 | Shambhu | Resilience (excerpt) | Lotus Dream |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | Peter Phippen & Eric “the” Taylor | Time Table | Two by Twilight |
| 1:35:27 | Austra | Anywayz (Clean Edit) | Hirudin |
| 1:39:07 | Lena Natalia | The Time Before Us | The Time Before Us |
| 1:41:39 | Agnes Obel | 05 Blood so Red | The Meaning of Flowers |
| 1:47:30 | Break | ||
| 1:48:38 | Hammock | Everything You Love Is Buried in the ground or Scattered into Space | The Second Coming Was a Moonrise |
| 1:52:10 | Quiet Resonance | Silent Turbulence | Flying Against the Wind. |