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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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Echoes Podcast: The Nightcrawlers Revisited
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In the Echoes Podcast hear about The Nightcrawlers leaders of a Philly electronic music scene that tapped the sound of German space music. Their 1980s cassettes have just been reissued.
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Echoes Podcast: Forrest Fang & Jóhann Jóhannsson
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Composer Forrest Fang talks about his ambient world music soundscapes and we remember Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson with a 2009 Echoes Interview. Jóhannsson died on February 10, 2018.
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Friday, February 9th, 2018-Echoes Program 1806E
On a Slow Flow Echoes, it’s new music from Nils Frahm with an uncharacteristically melodic album called, All Melody. We’ll also hear the Austrian electronic duo Tosca.
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Tuesday February 6th-Echoes Program 1806B
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.