Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Roedelius, Thievery Corp, & Philip Glass
Tag: synthesizer
Coming Up
Tuesday, Dec 29, 2020 – Michael Rother Interview
Michael Rother, legendary guitarist of German progressive music, has played with Kraftwerk, Neu, and Harmonia. We talk to Rother about his new album, his first in 16 years called Dreaming.
Coming Up
Monday, Dec 28, 2020 – Rival Consoles
Ryan West records as Rival Consoles, a resolutely electronic project, but he still thinks of his chromium plated compositions as songs. He calls it “songwriting with an electronic palate.”
Playlists
Friday, Dec 11, 2020 – Echoes Program 2049E
On a Slow Flow Echoes we go through Portals, a collection of electronic music sub-titled “A Kosmische Journey”, nodding to roots in 70s German Space music. We’ll also hear Liminal Drifter.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Dead Can Dance Icons & Harold Budd R.I.P.
Coming Up
Thursday, Dec 24, 2020 – An Echoes Christmas I
Get the sugar plums dancing with an Echoes Night Before Christmas. It’s not your shopping Mall Christmas carols with David Arkenstone’s Native Christmas, and Smoke Fairies Wild Winter.
Reviews & Commentary
5 Essential Harold Budd CDs.
Harold Budd passed away on December 7th at 84. Here are Five Essential Harold Budd albums from this avatar of ambient chamber music who defined a sound that was unrepentantly beautiful.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Dec 23, 2020 – Thomas Lemmer and Sebastian Pabst
It’s a new generation of German electronic artists when we talk to Thomas Lemmer and Sebastian Pabst. They’ve been churning out downtempo dreams and electro-lounge moods at a prolific pace.
News
Harold Budd R.I.P: Leaving the Planet at 84
Harold Budd 1936-2020t: Rest in BeautyAmbient composer and pianist Harold Budd has left the planet, Departing on December 7th, 2020 at the age of 84. And he hated being called an ambient composer as much as being called a New Age one. Harold Budd was on Echoes about a dozen times, playing live at least…
Playlists
Tuesday, Dec 8, 2020 – Echoes Program 2049B
Ambient chamber composer Kevin Keller goes spiritual when heart surgery stops his heart from beating. He contemplates that experience on his album, The Front Porch of Heaven.