Holger Czukay was a music renegade who studied with Stockhausen, co-founded the German rock group Can, and pioneered sampling before samplers influencing a generation of artists.
Reviews & Commentary
Holger Czukay-Five Essential Albums
Tag: Avant-garde
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Mantra & Stockhausen’s Klang
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We interview the director and Kirtan chanters in the documentary Mantra: Sounds into Silence and explore Karlheinz Stockhausen and his Klang: the 24 Hours of the Day in Echoes Podcast.
Coming Up
Wednesday April 25th: Flashback 50 Paul Horn
On the next Echoes a Flashback 50 to one of the seminal albums of the New Age, Paul Horn’s Inside. Recorded inside the Taj Mahal, it was a landmark release when it came out in 1968.
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Weekend, April 21 & 22, 2018: Engineer’s Mark Peters Interview
This weekend on Echoes and interview with guitarist Mark Peters of Engineers about his solo ambient guitar project, Innerland. We also remember Can’s Holger Czukay
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Brian Eno & Vangelis
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On the 40th Anniversary of Brian Eno’s “Music for Airports” and the 75th birthday of Vangelis we look back at these two iconic composers with interviews in the Echoes Podcast.
Playlists
Friday, April 6th, 2018-Echoes Program 1814E
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by the Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society with a remix of Cloudface. We’ll also hear the dubstep influenced sound of Mystral.
Playlists
Thursday, April 5th, 2018-Echoes Program 1814D
It’s the sound of Klang on Echoes. Klang was composer Karlheinz Stockhausen’s last work. The full title is KLANG: The 24 Hours of the Day. We talk to performers of this epic on Echoes.
Coming Up
Tuesday April 17th, 2018: Holger Cuzkay
He was master of sound collage, the proto-typical sample artist, and Hip-Hop before hip-hop. I’m talking about Holger Czukay, a founding member of iconoclastic rock band Can.
Playlists
Tuesday, March 27th, 2018-Echoes Program 1813B
On the 40th Anniversary of Brian Eno’s “Music for Airports” we look back at this ambient landmark with music, interviews with Eno, and a live performance by Bang on a Can.
Coming Up
Friday, April 6th, 2018: Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by the Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society with a remix of Cloudface. We’ll also hear the dubstep influenced sound of Mystral.