Hear Two Musicians Who Begin at Zero These days in contemporary music, most musicians don’t leave much to chance when they play live. They either adhere to note-for-note recreations of their recorded work or they just have it all in a computer, hit play and have a perfect, if frozen performance. Ambient guitarist Matt Borghi…
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Pure Bathing Culture in Echoes Podcast
Portland’s Pure Bathing Culture Talks Art-Rock, Jazz and Dream-pop in the Echoes Podcast. Whatever you call them, don’t call them Dream Pop. But if you do, you’ll hear a sound to which most dream pop bands could aspire with Pure Bathing Culture. They are a duo of singer and keyboardist Sarah Versprille and guitarist Daniel Hindman…
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Jherek Bischoff on Echoes Podcast
Hear about Jherek Bishoff’s strange life and idiosyncratic music in the Echoes Podcast. There’s a lot of chamber music being written lately by rock musicians. Ólafur Arnalds, Johann Johannsson, Rhian Sheehan all started out as pure rock musicians, often punk musicians. So did Jherek Bischoff. He’s played with people like Amanda Palmer, but on his…
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Euphoria in Echoes Podcast.
Hear Euphoria Interviewed on Echoes Podcast Ken Ramm played in rock bands as a kid and spent a lot of time composing the soundtrack for the soap opera, “As The World Turns.” But in the mid-1990s he had the idea of putting his guitar in a different musical environment. He took country-blues slide guitar, and…
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Tom Griesgraber & Bert Lams Happy Trails Echoes Podcast
Bert Lams & Tom Griesgraber talk about their concept album, Unnamed Lands in the Echoes Podcast. Bert Lams &Tom Griesgraber are both post-progressive rock veterans. Bert Lams is the best known as part of the California Guitar Trio. Tom Griesgraber is lesser known with one previous album out, but he’s been creating progressive music for…
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Anoushka Shankar in Echoes Podcast.
Hear Anoushka Shankar & Nitin Sawhney Talk about Traces of You in Echoes Podcast. Ravi Shankar passed away in December of 2012. He left an incredible legacy, scores of disciples and two daughters who have achieved their own kind of fame, Anoushka Shankar and Norah Jones. The two sisters got together while Shankar was in…
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Still Corners Echoes Podcast Interview
Hear our Interview with the enchanting dream-pop group Still Corners in the Echoes Podcast. Still Corners is an English band with an American musician. Greg Hughes writes the music and he’s from Phoenix, Arizona. Singer Tessa Murray is from England. It’s the sound of dreampop bands like the Cocteau Twins, psychedelia and surprisingly, horror…
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Hear About Mountain Oasis EM Summit in Echoes Podcast
Hear about the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit in the Echoes Podcast There are many electronic music festivals out there from the Detroit Music Festival to the Ultra Music Festival. But none have the breadth of acts you’ll find at the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit, the successor to Moogfest in Asheville, North Carolina. (Moogfest…
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From Beach Boys to Tangerine Dream: Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters in Echoes Podcast
Hear Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters Interview in the Echoes Podcast. It’s been an Ulrich Schnauss year here at Echoes. He had a CD of the Month in February this year with A Long Way to Fall and we interviewed him as well. Then he played live for us in early September and now he’s…
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Ethereal Girl: Mree in Echoes Podcast.
Hear Mree interviewed in the Echoes Podcast. Mree isn’t your typical singer song-writer. Even though she started out playing acoustic guitar in her bedroom and recording alt-rock songs on YouTube, she’s evolved her sound into something closer to dream pop than folk, embracing sounds from the New Age, Alt-Rock and ambient into a music that…