Hear an interview with Olivier Libaux tonight on the Echoes Podcast Olivier Libaux is a co-founder of Nouvelle Vague, a French project that records lounge versions of Punk and New Wave songs. Libaux steps out on his own with the CD titled Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age, reinventing songs by that hard rock band.…
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Interview Podcast
Interview with Scotland’s Laki Mera: Electro-Dream-Pop
Hear the Echoes Podcast of our interview with Laki Mera Laki Mera is a Scottish dream-pop band fronted by singer Laura Donnelly with electronic musicians Keir Long and Andrea Gobbi. They follow in the tradition of groups like Beach House and The Cocteau Twins with influences from German electronic bands and authors like Haruki Murakami…
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Echoes Podcast: Rachel Zeffira’s Dissembling & Suicides
Hear the Echoes Podcast of our interview with Rachel Zeffira. Rachel Zeffira is a former operatic soprano who now vocalizes in caressing whispers. She makes an enchanting and haunting dream pop, telling tales of suicide and lost love, placing it all in a chamber music setting. She doesn’t like to reveal the meanings of the…
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Jah Wobble & Marconi Union Echoes Podcast.
Hear the Echoes Podcast with Marconi Union & Jah Wobble In a surprising collaboration, English ambient band Marconi Union teams up with dub bassist Jah Wobble, best known for his work with Public Image, Ltd. They talk about their album of deep-dub space music called Anomic. Highlights include: Jah Wobble on Marconi Union: I was…
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Bedroom Electronics with Northcape.
Now in the Echoes Podcast: Interview with English electronic artist Northcape Back in the early 1960s, Bell Laboratory’s inventor, Max Mathews created a lot of the early synthesizer and computer music technology. His program called Music was one of the first for making music on computers. He predicted that in the future, anyone, musicians and…
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Lúnasa Brings Celtic Sounds to Echoes Podcast
Hear our interview with Lúnasa in the Echoes Podcast The Celtic crazed waned over a decade ago, but Celtic music, like Country & Western and Jazz, never goes away. Lúnasa are a generation removed from the first Celtic renaissance in the 1970s, but that’s the sound that infuses their take on traditional Irish music. And…
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Hooverphonic on Echoes Podcast
Hear Hooverphonic Interviewed in the Echoes Podcast. Hooverphonic is a band that’s been at the borders of popularity for the last 15 years or so. They’ve actually had several hits in Europe and you might’ve heard their music in movies like Stealing Beauty and on TV ads for Volkswagen and Motorola. This Belgian group started…
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Underworld’s Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams in Echoes Podcast.
Hear Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams talk about Edgeland in Echoes Podcast. In the 1980s, Rick Smith and Karl Hyde got together in a band called Freur and then formed the influential electronic dance group Underworld. They’ve been musically inseparable until recently. Rick Smith scored the soundtrack for Trance and Karl Hyde released his solo…
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Seven Saturdays Echoes Podcast
Hear the Echoes Interview with Seven Saturdays in the Echoes Podcast What do you do when you’ve been weened on Brian Eno, Zero 7 and Pink Floyd, but you’re only in your mid-30s? There’s a good chance you might make music like Seven Saturdays. That’s the recording project from Jonathan D. Haskell who began making…
Interview Podcast
Pat Metheny Book of Angels Interview Podcast
Hear Pat Metheny talk about Tap: John Zorn’s Book of Angels in the Echoes Podcast. You never know quite where guitarist Pat Metheny is going to land. In just the last three years he’s recorded a album with his mechanical orchestra called The Orchestrion, released a solo guitar album of 60 pop cover tunes and…