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Minimalist pioneer Terry Riley turns 80 and shows no sign of slowing down. On his birthday, Daevid Allen, Jon Hassell, Kronos Quartet, Mike Oldfield and more talk about the influence of this minimalist icon who has gone beyond minimalism.
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/EchoesPodcast-WuMan.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHear this interview in the Echoes Podcast here or download it from iTunes. The pipa is a Chinese lute, shaped like a teardrop with a course of deeply fretted strings that are played with fingernails. Wu Man is the Yo-Yo Ma of this instrument. And she’s played with…
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Earlier this year we saw the U.S. release of Rebekka Karijord’s 2012 album, We Become Ourselves. She came over from her home in Sweden to play live and talk about her music and life.
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Angela Sheik is a 21st century singer-songwriter who doesn’t just sit at a piano or play a guitar. With live looping, she creates her own elaborate orchestrations using those instruments plus autoharp, theremin, flute and whatever else she can get her hands on.
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Another Fine Day has a new CD called A Good Place to Be. It’s a seductive album of ambient jazz explorations.
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Trumpeter Jeff Oster creates and ambient jazz sound on his new album, Next, joined by veteran session musicians like Nile Rodgers and Bernard Purdie.
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Nels Cline is best known as the guitarist with Wilco, but long before he joined that band he had a burgeoning solo career as a an outside jazz guitarist. He reflects on his music, which embraces the contemplative and the chaotic.
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Bing & Ruth mix reed instruments, two double basses, cello and delay electronics into a haunting, hypnotic ambient chamber music sound.
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Henry Frayne has put out a string of wonderful albums bder the name Lanterna. It’s been nine years since he released an album, but he’s finally returned with Backyards. Frayne talks about his time away and the music it helped produce, a sound that was born on acoustic guitar.
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Johan Agebjorn recently released the album Notes, an ambitious song cycle exploring chamber and electronic moods with singers. Agebjorn has been a fixture on Sweden’s ambient and pop music scene for years. In the pop world he’s the mastermind behind Sally Shapiro, the electro-pop project with a singer whose identity remains cloaked, although it may be revealed in our interview. In ambient music he’s released several beautiful, often pastoral albums.