Category: Interview Podcast

Echoes Podcast: Chad Lawson’s Ambient Piano

Chad Lawson Headshot from Above at piano. Photo: Jeff Towne

Chad Lawson’s Ambient Piano https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/EchoesPodcast-Chadlawson2019.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS Pianist Chad Lawson is reinventing the acoustic piano for the electronic age. He came up through classical and jazz and garnered some renown with his album, The Chopin Variations,  turning the Polish composer into something acoustically ambient. But now he’s creating original ambient…

Echoes Podcast: William Tyler Interview

William Tyler Posed with guitar.

William Tyler’s Rural New Age in Echoes Podcasthttps://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/EchoesPodcast-WilliamTyler2019.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS William Tyler is a guitarist who has made it through to hipster circles and records on the highly regarded Merge label. But he’s not afraid to cite Windham Hill Records, astrology, and more as influences. He’s also making the most…

Echoes Podcast: Lamb’s Secret of Blissing Out

Lamb in Farm setting

Lamb’s Secrets in Echoes Podcasthttps://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/EchoesPodcast-Lamb.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS In the Echoes Podcast, The acclaimed English electronica band, Lamb, talks about their new album, The Secret of Letting Go. The title speaks to the duo’s sometimes contentious working relationship. Andy Barlow: I think she’s got a version of the album with all…

Echoes Podcast: Rachel Eckroth Interview

Singer Rachel Eckroth Gets Weird in Echoes Podcasthttps://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/EchoesPodcast-RachelEckroth.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn the Echoes Podcast, we discover the beautiful and edgy dream pop of  Rachel Eckroth. She started out as a jazz pianist but then came a transformation into singer-songwriter and then electronic dream pop which is where she’s at on her…

Echoes Podcast: Unkle’s James Lavelle

Alternative Electro-rocker UNKLE Walks Down The Road Trilogyhttps://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/EchoesPodcast-UNKLE.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS In the Echoes Podcast, UNKLE’s James Lavelle talks about a journey that started at the dawn of trip-hop. He is working on a trilogy of albums called The Road and has just released the second volume, The Road Part II:…

Echoes Podcast: Kevin Keller’s Electronic Ice Worlds

Electronic Composer Kevin Keller Goes Retro-Space in Echoes Podcasthttps://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/EchoesPodcast-KevinKeller2019.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS In the Echoes Podcast, ambient chamber music composer Kevin Keller talks about going back to his roots to compose the retro-electronic sound of his latest album, Ice Worlds. It was the Echoes CD of the Month in March. It’s…

Echoes Podcast: Primer & Wave World

Primer Travels Back in Electro-Pop Timehttps://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/EchoesPodcast-Primer-Waveworld.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS In the Echoes Podcast, we trip in time with Primer and we remember Gert Van Santens of Wave World. Primer is the prep coating of paint. It’s also a textbook. And it’s the name chosen by Alyssa Midcalf, a Detroit based artist for…

Echoes Podcast: Saul Stokes

Saul Stokes

Saul Stokes Talks Electronic Expansion in Echoes Podcasthttps://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/EchoesPodcast-SaulStokes-2019.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS He used to make his own electronic instruments and when he plays live, he doesn’t use any computers. That’s a few of the things that make Saul Stokes a unique musician on the electronic scene. Kevin Keller, who has the…