Download the Podcast of Echoes Interview with Seti the First. It’s been nearly 40 years since the Penguin Café Orchestra released their debut album, but their music is still having an influence on modern composers who are making a music between worlds, part classical, part folk and part experimental. Seti the First is an Irish…
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Interview Podcast
Banco De Gaia Mythic Sound
Hear interview with Banco De Gaia in Echoes Podcast. Banco de Gaia fired one of the first shots of ethno-techno sounds into the previously electronic dominated rave culture of the early 1990s. Since then, he’s built a body of work by sampling the body’s of work from other musicians as well as sounds from the…
CD of the Month, Interview Podcast
Ólafur Arnalds’ Winter Chill
ÓLAFUR ARNALDS’ FOR NOW I AM WINTER ECHOES APRIL CD OF THE MONTH Hear Ólafur Arnalds talk about For Now I Am Winter on Tuesday May 13 on Echoes Hear this review in the Echoes Podcast Icelandic artists are subjected to many clichés: most commonly that their music reflects the frozen north, land of glaciers,…
Interview Podcast
Tina Malia’s Electronic Epiphany on Echoes
Hear Tina Malia’s Electronic Epiphany tonight on Echoes. When we first met Tina Malia in 2001, she was writing ethereal singer-songwriter tunes while gearing up for intoning kirtan chants with Jai Uttal. All of it was based in acoustic sounds. But on her new CD, The Lost Frontier, Malia has sculpted an album of deep…
Interview Podcast
Ulrich Schnauss Echoes Podcast Interview.
German electronic musician Ulrich Schnauss talks about religion, space music and a return to electronic sound in the Echoes Podcast. Five years after his stormy, end-of-the-world electro-shoegaze treatise called Goodbye, German downtempo synth scientist Ulrich Schnauss returns with a new CD. Gone are the layers of distorted sound, aggressive grooves and over-driven guitar timbres that…
Interview Podcast
The United States of America-Joseph Byrd-Podcast
Hear an interview with Joseph Byrd of The United States of America in Echoes Podcast. We take electronic music for granted now, but back in 1968 it was a pretty rare and novel thing. There were bands like Lothar and the Hand People, 50 Foot Hose and Silver Apples, but the group who took electronics…
Interview Podcast
Brian Reitzell-Soundtracks & Records Echoes Podcast
Brian Reitzell combines a vinyl junkies knowledge with a sound designers’ ear. Hear his interview in the Echoes Podcast In Hollywood films there are soundtrack composers and then there are music supervisors. The composer writes the underscores for films. Music supervisors sometimes work with the composer, but usually, they’re the people who pick the songs…
Interview Podcast
Philip Glass Echoes Podcast.
Hear the Echoes Philip Glass Podcast It’s hard for me to think of Philip Glass at 76. Even though he’s a lot older than me, I still think of him as a composer who I came up with through music. Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Terry Riley all helped bring me over from rock into…
CD of the Month, Interview Podcast
Ulrich Schnauss: Electronic Memories
Ulrich Schnauss’ A Long Way to Fall is the Echoes February CD of the Month. Hear an audio version of this review with music in the Echoes Podcast. Five years after his stormy, end-of-the-world electro-shoegaze treatise called Goodbye, German downtempo synth scientist Ulrich Schnauss returns with a new CD. Gone are the layers of distorted…
Interview Podcast
Colin Edwin & Jon Durant’s Post-Apocalyptic Burnt Beliefs.
Hear the Echoes Podcast with Colin Edwin & Jon Durant Porcupine Tree is among the most popular of the recent generation of Progressive Rock groups. They’ve even enjoyed chart success. Colin Edwin is their highly regarded bass player. Jon Durant is much less well known, but he’ been putting out wonderful ambient-laced electric guitar albums…