An Engineer goes off the track when we talk with Mark Peters. He’s the guitarist and leader of the dreamy shoegaze band Engineers, but on his own, he creates a more ambient, instrumental sound.
Several Echoes Artists are nominated in this years Grammy Awards including Steve Roach, Bonobo, Odesza, and Brian Eno. We take an Echoes look at the good and bad of this years nominees.
Brian Eno has a new collaboration coming fronted by keyboardist Tom Rogerson called Finding Shore. They’ve just released the second video for “Idea of Order at Kyson Point.”
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We look back on the career of trumpeter/composer Jon Hassell from through his Fourth World music permutations with interviews from Hassell, Brian Eno, and more in the Echoes Podcast.
Trumpeter Jon Hassell has one of the most distinct trumpet sounds in modern music and he created an entire sub-genre, Fourth World Music. We celebrate his 80th with commentary from Brian Eno, Steve Roach and more.
Harold Budd is a legend in the ambient world. His early 1980 albums with Brian Eno, The Plateaux of Mirror and The Pearl, are signposts of ambient music. Now he’s turned 80.
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Dieter Moebius was a founding member of influential German bands Cluster and Harmonia, creating a sound that was known as Krautrock and collaborating with Brian Eno. Moebius died on July 20 at the age of 71. We go back to an interview with Moebius and bandmate Hans-Joachim Roedelius from 1996.
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Interview: Ceiri Torjussen. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/p/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-CeiriTorjussen.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Android | RSSCeiri Torjussen is a Welsh-born classically trained composer with jazz inclinations who has recorded an electronic ambient score for the movie Test, a story about professional dancers coping with the outbreak of AIDS in 1985 San Francisco. Torjussen’s score uses classic 70s and…
Hear Two Musicians Who Begin at Zero These days in contemporary music, most musicians don’t leave much to chance when they play live. They either adhere to note-for-note recreations of their recorded work or they just have it all in a computer, hit play and have a perfect, if frozen performance. Ambient guitarist Matt Borghi…
These days in contemporary music, most musicians don’t leave much to chance when they play live. They either adhere to note-for-note recreations of their recorded work or they just have it all in a computer, hit play and have a perfect, if frozen performance. Ambient guitarist Matt Borghi and saxophonist Michael Teager don’t work that…
