Composer Forrest Fang manipulates western, eastern and toy instruments along with flowerpots into surreal soundscapes. He talks about his new album, Scenes from a Ghost Train, on Echoes.
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Wednesday, May 9th-Echoes Program 1819C
Tag: Avant-garde
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Weekend, May 19 & 20, 2018: Brian Eno at 70
Brian Eno’s 70th Birthday is celebrated on Echoes with a feature profile interview and two hours of Eno’s music from solo albums to collaborations, from ambient to beyond.
Interview Podcast, Program Highlights
Echoes Podcast: Holger Czukay
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Holger Czukay, a founding member of iconoclastic rock band Can and a master of sound collage, the proto-typical sample artist. Learn about him in the Echoes Podcast.
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Wednesday April 25th-Echoes Program 1817C
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.
Reviews & Commentary
Holger Czukay-Five Essential Albums
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.