Mark Isham: the Echoes Interview
Trumpeter Mark Isham returns with his first solo album in 27 years. Isham is a musician who has stretched musical boundaries for four decades, with Group 87, his early electronic album, Vapor Drawings and numerous film and TV scores, including A River Runs Through It and The Westies. He has a new album that takes us on a roundabout journey called At the Carousel Club.
Mark Isham: “This is not an ambient record, this is not an electronic music record, this is a storytelling record.”
It’s a wild ride where he has thrown every aspect of his career into his most kinetically-charged album ever. It’s called At The Carousel Club. We talk to Mark Isham on Echoes from PRX.
| Starr Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
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| Program 2639A | |||
| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:01:00 | Mark Isham | City Lore | At the Carousel Club |
| 0:06:00 | Agnes Obel | Gemini | The Meaning of Flowers |
| 0:11:35 | Jami Sieber | River of Sky | Timeless |
| 0:15:49 | Sheila Chandra | Lament of McCrimmon / Song of the Banshee (Live) | Echo |
| 0:21:27 | Niyaz | Quest | Seven Realms of Attar |
| 0:25:58 | Balthvs | Year of the Snake | Manifest |
| 0:29:30 | Immersion | A Long Way to Brooklyn (excerpt) | WTF??? |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | Interview; Mark Isham | ||
| 0:46:06 | Mark Isham | My Night in an AnIberian Post Office | At the Carousel Club |
| 0:51:14 | Jim Ottaway | A Promised Reality | Treasures of Light |
| 0:59:00 | Adrian Sherwood | The Collapse of Everything (excerpt) | The Collapse of Everything |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | Tim Horne | Biota | Transmutation |
| 1:06:00 | Will Ackerman | Grandma Maple | Home |
| 1:07:52 | Beck | Run Away | Ride Lonesome |
| 1:11:21 | Bombay Dub Orchestra | View From Space | View From Space [EP] |
| 1:15:12 | Alex Amor | This Must Be the End | Heavenly Bodies |
| 1:19:17 | Peter Phippen & Eric “the” Taylor | Conceiver | Two by Twilight |
| 1:29:30 | Felsman & Tilery | Kind (excerpt) | Protomensch |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | Rodrigo y Gabriela | Astrum in Corpore | Our Home |
| 1:34:37 | Bonobo | Cycles | Distance in Static |
| 1:39:23 | Locust | All of Them (feat. Nick Holton) | Spectral+ |
| 1:42:46 | Dead Can Dance | Towards the Within | Into the Labyrinth |
| 1:49:50 | Break | ||
| 1:50:32 | Antaeus/Madame Gandhi/Cafe De Anatolia | Aether | Ekta |
| 1:53:06 | Tangerine Dream | Exit | Exit |
Downtempo global fusion erupts when we hear Tropo, a project of violinist Tyson Leonard. He mixes electronics with violin and all kinds of global elements into a seductive world fusion on Siente tu Corazon.
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Echoes Program 2639B |
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Group Name |
Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:01 | All India Radio | Vega | Space |
| 0:06:01 | Jaffa Road | Hear My Sound | Until When |
| 0:11:18 | Ramin Djawadi | Not Today | Game of Thrones Season 8 |
| 0:13:30 | Lana Del Rey | Ultraviolence | Ultraviolence |
| 0:17:35 | Kate Bush | The Dreaming | The Dreaming |
| 0:20:37 | Tropo | Pantano Místico | Siente Tu Corazón |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:01 | Eric Hilton | Infinite Everywhere | Infinite Everywhere |
| 0:33:44 | Rufus du Sol | See You Again | Surrender |
| 0:38:58 | Variant Field | Letting Go (Autumn) | Immeasurable |
| 0:43:20 | break | ||
| 0:44:00 | Bob Boilen | Traveling Ponder | Futures Waiting |
| 0:52:16 | Lane 8 | Survive (feat. Channy Leaneagh) | Reviver |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:10 | Larkenlyre | The Orphan Returns Home | Music of the Extraordinary Voyages |
| 1:06:01 | Absolutely Free | Epilogue | Aftertouch |
| 1:10:03 | Maia Friedman | First To Love | First To Love (single) |
| 1:13:40 | Kenneth Hooper | Springtime Dreaming | Directions |
| 1:22:54 | Chieli Minucci | Liminality | Someone’s Singing |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:00 | Contra Scandal | A Calling | Full Circle |
| 1:35:00 | Loreena McKennitt | The Gates of Istanbul | An Ancient Muse |
| 1:41:20 | Laliya | The Space In Between | The Middle Way |
| 1:45:46 | break | ||
| 1:46:27 | frostlake | The Ultimate Thrill | The Weight of Clouds |
| 1:51:26 | Hollan Holmes | A Ribbon of Life | Emerald Waters |
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