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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Interview Podcast
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…
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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…
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Echoes Ólafur Arnalds Interview Podcast
Hear the Echoes Interview with Ólafur Arnalds in the Echoes Podcast There is an emerging generation of artists who are positing the first new movement in classical music since 1970s minimalism: Ambient Chamber Music. It mixes classical orchestrations with electronic sounds, but couches them all in gorgeous, often heart-rending melodies and an atmosphere that envelopes…
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Hem Interview-Echoes Podcast.
Hear an interview with Hem in the Echoes Podcast. In the alternative rock, irony drenched landscape of Brooklyn, the band called Hem stands out for their sincere lyrics and nearly pure acoustic sound. They’ve been recording since 2001 and despite a litany of travails that might give Job pause, they’ve persevered, flourished and been reborn…
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Rhian Sheehan’s Music Box Podcast
Hear Rhian Sheehan’s interview in the Echoes Podcast. New Zealand artist Rhian Sheehan has been releasing electronic albums since 2001, but he started out playing acoustic guitar. He was good enough to jam with finger-style guitar icon, Tommy Emmanuel. But after forays into pure electronic music he has emerged with a sound that brings guitars,…