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Echoes Podcast: Mike Oldfield-Ommadawn’s 50th
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Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn at 50: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast,Tubular Bells’ composer Mike Oldfield talks about Ommadawn, his two-sided epic from 1975. Mike Oldfield changed the world of progressive rock and instrumental music with his 1973 opus, Tubular Bells. But two years later he released this third album that many consider to be his…
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Echoes Podcast: Singer Azam Ali Interview
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Azam Ali's Synesthesia Therapy: The Echoes Podcast Singer Azam Ali from Vas, and Niyaz graces the Echoes Podcast. The voice of Azam has been part of the Echoes soundscape for 3 decades. Her Persian fusion groups, Vas and Niyaz, were seminal acts and her solo albums have included chants of Abbess Hildegard von Bingen, and hymns of Sephardic Jews sun…
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The Echoes Podcast: Bluetech Takes Us to the Spacehop Bluetech’s album, Spacehop Chronicles 2 is the Echoes CD of the Month for October and in the Echoes Podcast, we have Bluetech himself, Evan Bartholomew, talking about this electronic journey into orbit that sits between space music and trip-hop, all meditating on the journey of Laika, the canine…
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Echoes Podcast – Marissa Nadler Interview
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Echoes Podcast: Marissa Nadler Attains Escape Velocity September’s CD of the Month was New Radiations by Marissa Nadler and in the Echoes Podcast we’ve got her talking about this album which is one of her most personal releases. Marissa Nadler: The whole record is really a heartbreak record. It kind of examines both sides through distance and time.…
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Echoes Podcast: Patrick O’Hearns Ancient Dreams
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Echoes Podcast: 40 Years of Ancient Dreams with Patrick O'Hearn - The Echoes Interview We celebrate the 40th anniversary of Patrick O’Hearn’s debut album, Ancient Dreams. Patrick O’Hearn has been one of the defining voices of modern electronic music. Until the rise of Yanni, he was one of the signature artists of the Private Music label. Since his …
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Echoes Podcast – Adrian Sherwood Interview
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Mixing It Up with Master Dub Mixer - Adrian Sherwood: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, a legend of dub on the next Echoes when we talk to producer Adrian Sherwood. Sherwood is a Dub Master. The English musician has been manipulating sound for over 5 decades, working with masters of the Jamaican dub style like Lee “Scratch” Perry, and creat…
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Echoes Podcast – Nicholas Gunn Goes Trance
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Nicholas Gunn Goes Trance: The Echoes Interview Our August CD of the Month was the album, 30 by Nicholas Gunn. In the Echoes Podcast, I’ve got him talking about it. Nick has been a part of Echoes since his self-released debut album, Afternoon in Sedona in 1993, but around 2012, he changed, giving his flute a rest and plugged into software synths an…
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Echoes Podcast: Klaus Schulze-An Icon of Electronics
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Klaus Schulze-An Icon of Electronic Music in Echoes Podcast The 50th Anniversary of Timewind, the 1975 album by Klaus Schulze is coming up on August 25. In the Echoes Podcast hear a documentary on this legendary artist who helped launch a new genre not just in electronic music, but music period. Klaus is one of the Icons of Echoes. He sadly left th…
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Echoes Podcast: Electric Chamber Music on Edge with AVAWAVES In the Echoes Podcast, AVAWAVES talk about their new album, Heartbeat. AVAWAVES is the British electric chamber music duo of violinist Anna Phoebe and keyboardist Aisling Brouwer. Their fusion of electronic and music and compositional verve can be heard on their soundtrack to Apple TV ser…
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Echoes Podcast: A Medical Journey with Course
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Trauma, Medicine, Pain and Beauty with Jessica Robbins of Course: The Echoes Podcast John Diliberto and Course’s Jessica Robbins In the Echoes Podcast, Ankylosing Spondylitis, a spinal disease causing immense pain. But Jessica Robbins, who records as Course, creates some beautiful music out of that pain on her album, Hue Mirror. It’s an exploration…
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Echoes Podcast: The Anoushka Shankar Interview
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Anoushka Shankar's Sitar Evolution: The Echoes Podcast Anoushka Shankar has released an impressive trilogy of EPs in the last year that take her sitar in different directions. Chapter I: Forever For Now; Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before the Dawn; and Chapter III: We Return to Light, find Shankar in 3 different settings: World Fusion, Ambient and I…
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Echoes Podcast : Marconi Union 2025 Interview
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Fear, Loss and Sticking the Landing; Marconi Union: The Echoes Interview In the Echoes podcast, Marconi Union talk about their CD of the Month, The Fear of Never Landing. The British electronic band has been providing ambient atmospheres and deep groove on the show for 20 years and they are still creating with their latest album, The Fear of Never …
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Echoes Podcast: Buzz Me In – Inside the Record Plant
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The Hedonistic Hit Factory: Buzz Me In - Inside the Record Plant Studios with David Goggin and Martin Porter in Echoes Podcast. John Diliberto, David “Mr Bonzai” Goggin, Martin Porter I’ve got something different for you in this weeks Echoes Podcast. I’m going to talk with Martin Porter and David Goggin about their new book, Buzz Me In: Inside the …
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Tape Loops and Life Loops-Terry Riley turns 90 Terry Riley, along with Philip Glass and Steve Reich, is among the holy trinity of minimalism. His compositions In C and A Rainbow in Curved Air are seminal works of that genre. He was creating tape loops works in the early 1960s, laying the foundation for over 50 years of looping artists. Without Terr…
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Echoes Podcast: aeseaes -Streaming Dream-Pop
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Dream Pop Streaming with aeseaes: The Echoes Podcast aeseaes in their studio for Echoes Interview In the Echoes Podcast, John Diliberto talks to aeseaes (pronounced A-C-S), the husband and wife duo who you may have caught sometime over the last 10 years streaming live performances on the Twitch Platform. We discovered them on their 2017 EP Six Song…
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Echoes Podcast: David Helpling & Eric “The” Taylor
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David Helpling and Eric "The" Taylor Go Into the Dark: The Echoes Podcast John Diliberto, Eric “The” Taylor and David Helpling In the Echoes Podcast, David Helpling and Eric “the” Taylor talk about their new album, The Precious Dark which was the CD of the Month for May. David Helpling is a guitarist turned synthesizer architect with several solo a…
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Ambient Chamber Music Dream Pop: Ólafur Arnalds and Loreen - The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, a meeting of ambient classical and pure pop when I talk with Ólafur Arnalds and Loreen. Ólafur Arnalds you know from his deeply atmospheric ambient chamber music. Loreen is a Swedish singer who is huge in Europe, where she has won the Eurovision S…
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Echoes Podcast: Rother, Lattimore, Suss Interview
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Michael Rother, Bob Holmes & Mary Lattimore in Big Ears Session Hear the second of John Diliberto’s two Big Ears Festival 2025 sessions in the Echoes Podcast. This one featured German guitarist Michael Rother from the influential bands Neu! and Harmonia. He created one of the most distinct guitar sounds of the 70s and also deployed the classic moto…
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Echoes Podcast: The Return of Ancient Future
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Back to the Ancient Future: The Echoes Podcast If I wanted to play you an example of world fusion, the first group I would go to is Ancient Future. Not only are they the definition of the term, they actually coined it back in 1978. Matthew Montfort: Yeah. Yeah. I didn’t trademark the term or anything ’cause I wanted it to become a movement. It didn…
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Echoes Podcast Bonus: Keith Jarrett’s 80th Birthday
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Keith Jarrett Turns 80: Hear his Thoughts in Sound Keith Jarrett, Venezia, Teatro Malibran, 24/07/2001. Photo: Robert Masotti Keith Jarrett is a true icon of modern music. The pianist came up through the jazz scene, playing with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis on signature recordings by both artists. He’s led several ensembles over the years with maj…
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Echoes Podcast: Steve Roach Talk at Big Ears Festival 2025.
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A Journey from Space Music to Ambient & Beyond with Steve Roach in Echoes Podcast John Diliberto – Steve Roach – Linda Kohanov at Big Ears Festival 2025 This year at the Big Ears Festival 2025, John Diliberto moderated two panels with some of the leading musicians of our time. In today’s podcast, we’ll hear his session with Steve Roach and Linda Ko…
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Echoes Podcast: Larry Fast’s Synergy Turns 50
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Electronic History - Synergy at 50: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast we go back 50 years to a turning point in electronic music history. That’s when the album, Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra by Synergy was released. It was a project by Larry Fast, and there were no guitars or drums on the album, just synthesizers creating epic, …
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Echoes Podcast: Sasha’s Electronic Da Vinci
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Days of Genius Past: Sasha's Da Vinci Genius - The Echoes Interview In the Echoes Podcast, we take another listen to the spirit of Leonardo Da Vinci, transformed into electronic sound by DJ and producer Sasha. Da Vinci Genius is an immersive exhibit on the life of the Renaissance polymath. Sasha created a score that ranges from orchestrally cinemat…
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Echoes Podcast: Revisiting the Complete Joe Boyd Interview
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A Global Music Journey with Joe Boyd: The Echoes Podcast Back n September of 2024, we brought you the broadcast version of our interview with Joe Boyd. It was was a deep, wide-ranging interview that was hard to condense into 15 minutes, so we also presented our entire conversation in the Echoes Podcast. Joe’s most recent book, And the Roots of Rhyt…
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Peter Gregson's 21st Century Orchestra: The Echoes Podcast Peter Gregson is a classically-trained cellist. He’s recorded with orchestras as well as composers Max Richter and the late-Jóhann Jóhannsson. He’s also composed music for film and video games including, Ammonite. Back in 2021, We talked to him about the ambient chamber music on his recordi…
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Echoes Podcast: Ian Boddy & Harald Grosskopf
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A Meeting of Electronic Generations with Ian Boddy & Harald Grosskopf in the Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, It’s a meeting of electronic generations with Ian Boddy and Harald Grosskopf, drummer for Klaus Schulze and Ashra. Ian grew up traveling the spaceways of Ash Ra Tempel, Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. Harald Grosskopf was the drumme…
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Echoes Podcast: Ben Neill’s Music Democracy
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Mutantrumpet Creator Ben Neill Proposes an Age of Music Democratization: Echoes Podcast If you’ve listened to Echoes over the last 30 years, you’ve heard the music of Ben Neill a lot. He plays an instrument called the mutantrumpet which has 3 trumpet bells, a trombone slide, two sets of valves and a lot of electronics. He’s been making music on the…
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Echoes Podcast: Immersion & Suss Interview
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Krautrock Country with Immersion and SUSS: The Echoes Podcast The Echoes CD of the Month in March is going to be Nanocluster Volume 3. by Immersion and Suss and today in the podcast, I’ve got an interview with them. Immersion is the duo of Colin Newman from the iconic new wave band Wire and Malka Spigel from the Israeli new wave band Minimal Compac…
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Electronic Explorer Steve Roach Turns 70. In 2019 Steve Roach was voted #2 of 30 Icons of Echoes for our 30 year anniversary. Five years later, he was still #2 for our 35th Anniversary and the 35 Icons of Echoes. For the 30th, we created a profile of Steve, and now that he is turning 70 on February 16, 2025, I thought we’d take a look back at that …
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Echoes Podcast: Amon Tobin Lost Interview
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Amon Tobin's psychedelic Dreams: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast I have a lost interview when I talk to the bands Figueroa, Two Fingers and Only Child Tyrant. The only thing is, those aren’t bands, but the various recording personas of Amon Tobin, the electronic composer who is pretty eclectic under his own name. His music has evolved, but…
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Explore the Big Ears Festival 2025 with founder Ashley Capps in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast we preview the Big Ears Festival 2025 taking place in Knoxville at the end of March. This is an enormous event with over a hundred artists all on the leading edge of whatever music genre they are in and at Big Ears, there are a lot of music genres, …
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Echoes Podcast II: Edgar Froese Complete 1982
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Remembering Tangerine Dream's Edgar Froese on the 10th Anniversary of his Departure with the Complete 1982 Interview in the Echoes Podcast. On this 10th anniversary of his passing, we remember Edgar Froese with this 1982 interview for the Totally Wired: Artists in Electronic Sound series. Tangerine Dream changed music. Period. There was nothing lik…
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The Roots of Electro-Pop-John Foxx's Metamatic Turns 45: The Echoes Interview In the 1980s, you couldn’t be sure now long New Wave music would last. But now in 2025, Depeche Mode, Orchestral Manouvres in the Dark and Gary Numan are still recording and touring, and newer bands like Ladytron, Washed Out, Emma Anderson, Maps and World Brain are ascend…
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Echoes Podcast: Maps and The Art of Noise 40th
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Echoes Podcast: Maps Counter Electronic Melodies and The Art of Noise 40th Anniversary. The Echoes Podcast features two electronic artists, one from the future past and one from the present future, with James Chapman of Maps and The Art of Noise, celebrating the 40th anniversary of their debut album, Who’s Afraid of the Art of Noise! released in Ju…
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Emma Anderson - From Lush to Independence: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, Emma Anderson. 4AD was one of the defining record labels of the 1980s and 90s with artists like Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Clan of Xymox and Wolfgang Press. Among those groups was Lush, the band fronted by the duo of Emma Anderson and Mikki Berenyi. They record…
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Echoes Podcast: David Borden & Mother Mallard
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The Continuing Story 0f David Borden-An Electronic Pioneer: The Echoes Podcast Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co. circa 1975 In the Echoes Podcast, a pioneer of electronic music: David Borden, the founding member of Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company. In 1969, he created the group Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company. The…
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The Ambience Between-Rena Jones & Kilowatts: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, Rena Jones and KiloWatts come on to talk about their new album Caesura. It’s a more complex take on electronica, combining synthesizers with Rena’s violin, viola and cello orchestrations. Rena Jones is a polymath musician who has been a defining voice in ambient …
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Echoes Podcast: Wendy Carlos Switches On 85
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We Celebrate Wendy Carlos' 85th Year in Echoes Podcast We look back at Wendy Carlos on her 85th Birthday. This is actually a feature we did for Wendy’s 70th birthday that we redid for her 80th birthday. You know that a lot of time has passed when your references become dated. With its array of cords and cables crisscrossed in a patchbay, we used to…
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Echoes Podcast: Autobahn’s 50th Anniversary
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Kraftwerk's Autobahn at 50: The Echoes Kraftwerk Documentary It’s the 50th Anniversary of Kraftwerk’s Autobahn. The iconic German electronic band switched on their debut album in November, 1970, but their breakthrough artistically and commercially came in 1974 with an album that broke all the barriers of music, especially in the Top Forty. Ralf Hut…
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Echoes Podcast: Josse Jaffe & Jim Kimo West
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On the Echoes Podcast, two masters of strings, from guitar to ngoni, when we talk to Joss Jaffe and Jim “Kimo” West. Jaffe is a musical explorer. West is a guitarist with a reputation for Hawaiian slack key music but he also plays with Weird Al Yankovic. Go figure. Jaffe studied tabla drum in India and has picked up instruments from around the worl…
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Echoes Podcast Hans-Joachim Roedelius at 90
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Hans-Joachim Roedelius at 90: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes podcast we celebrate the 90th Birthday of German Composer, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, born on October 26, 1934. He was a founding member of the bands Cluster and Harmonia, two groups who influenced artists like David Bowie on his Berlin Trilogy and especially Brian Eno, who went on to make…
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I Sing the Song AI-Tony Gerber and the Singing Poet Society: The Echoes Podcast AI is everywhere and so many places you don’t even know it. Last year we even programmed an entire echoes using AI. It was pretty good, but dated. You know AI is in pop and library music, but there is one musician trying to use it for Art. His name is Tony Gerber and yo…
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Love, Loss Alienation with London Grammar: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, the British dreampop trio, London Grammar. We talked to them in 2021 about their career and album, Californian Soil, an Echoes CD of the Month. Now they are back with their fourth album, The Greatest Love, also a CD of the Month. We’ve been told it’s a rare thing t…
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Echoes Podcast: The Complete Joe Boyd Interview
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A Global Music Journey with Joe Boyd: The Echoes Podcast Last week we brought you the broadcast version of our interview with Joe Boyd. Well, it was a pretty deep, wide-ranging interview that was hard to condense into 15 minutes so today I’m giving you our entire conversation in the Echoes Podcast.. Just to remind you you, Joe Boyd is a legendary p…
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The Exotica Lounge of Kinobe: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, electronic artist Kinobe takes us into his ethereal lounge inspired by Sinatra-era strings and singers, exotica lounge music, 90s’ trip-hop, and the French duo, Air. Kinobe: I grew up in a household where I would hear Nelson Riddle at least once a day, my parents are big Sinatr…
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A Global Music Journey with Joe Boyd: The Echoes Podcast Joe Boyd is a legend in music, from producing Pink Floyd (“Arnold Lane”), Nick Drake, Maria Muldaur, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, and Muzsikás, to his Hannibal world music label, and more. A few years ago he wrote a great book that was a memoir of his life in the rock and roll world, White Bicycle…
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Echoes Podcast: Trentemøller & Michael Garrison
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Trentemøller's Shoegaze Dream Pop and Michael Garrison, a Pioneer Remembered: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, two features with Trentemøller and Michael Garrison Trentemøller Danish composer Trentemøller, the performance name of Anders Trentemøller, a Danish Dream Pop musician who emerged out of the techno scene at the turn of the century…
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David Arkenstone's Quest for the Runestone: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast we go on a quest with David Arkenstone. A five-time Grammy nominee, he’s been a fixture in instrumental music since his 1987 debut, Valley in the Clouds. Many of his 70 or so albums are based in themes of fantasy and mythology and his latest goes that way full bore…
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From Transistors to Trans: Jaymie Rose Hennegan-The Echoes Podcast Vic Hennegan is an artist who has been on the show many times over the last two decades. The last appearance was broadcast in 2023 from a 2022 Echoes performance. Back then Hennegan was black, bald and masculine. He’s still black, but everything else has changed since the transition…
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