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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Tuesday, March 27th, 2018-Echoes Program 1813B
Tag: Looping
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2018-Echoes Program 1808B
We talk with electro-pop pioneer Thomas Dolby. The musician who had a hit in the 80s with “Blinded Me With Science is now a professor Johns Hopkins’ Peabody Institute.
Interview Podcast
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.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Engineers Mark Peters
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We talk with guitarist Mark Peters in Echoes Podcast. He’s the guitarist and leader of the dreamy shoegaze band Engineers, but on his own, he creates a more ambient, instrumental sound.
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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.
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2018-Echoes Program 1805C
In the middle of this long winter, acclaimed ambient guitarist Jeff Pearce comes in to weave the looped and delay drenched guitar melodies of his latest album, From the Darker Seasons, live on Echoes.
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2017-Echoes Program 1746C
On the next Echoes, singer Briana Marela turns her gothic choirs into a one-woman girl group. Using live looping and a voice of wide-open innocence, she comes in to sing music from her latest album, Call It Love.
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Friday October 27th, 2017-Echoes Program 1743E
On a Slow Flow Echoes we hear music by ARC, the English electronic duo of Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve and electronic artist Darshan Ambient off his latest, Lingering Day: Anatomy of a Daydream.
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2017-Echoes Program 1737B
Singer and songwriter Julia Easterlin started out as a looping musician, but then she collaborated with Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farke Toure, changed her performance name to Hite and got a live band to play her introspective songs.
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Wednesday, September 6th, 2017-Echoes Program 1736C
Violinist Christopher Tignor comes in with his electronic rig, a bass drum and chines and orchestrates a one-man ambient chamber music performance live on Echoes.