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A daily public radio broadcast program and podcast from PRX and WGBH, hosted by Marco Werman
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PRX is a leading media company, shaping the future of audio by connecting talented producers with their most engaged, supportive audiences. PRX builds technology and creates cutting-edge content that reaches millions of listeners worldwide. For 15 years, PRX has operated public radio’s largest distribution marketplace, offering thousands of shows including This American Life, The Moth Radio Hour and Reveal. Named one of Fast Company’s "Ten Most Innovative Companies in Media" in both 2015 and ...
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Echoes Podcast: Mike Oldfield-Ommadawn’s 50th
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15:49Mike 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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In a workshop in Milan, in northern Italy, Enrico Allorto, a master craftsperson known as a luthier, is bent over a bandsaw, slicing through a plank of wood salvaged from an abandoned migrant boat. At a workbench nearby, Nicolae, an inmate from Opera high security prison, is gluing narrow slats of the recycled timber together. Another former prison…
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Echoes Podcast: Singer Azam Ali Interview
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24:36Azam 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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What comes to mind when you think of a sea monster? Serpents? Loch Ness? The shark in Jaws, perhaps? What about the creatures in the deep sea, more than a thousand feet down, where the sunlight doesn’t reach? Are they certified monsters? Or just creatures we don’t yet understand? A new exhibit at Harvard University’s Museum of Natural History wrest…
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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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Yoon Na-ri sits at an outdoor café near her apartment in Seoul. Even though the weather is a little brisk, she removes her olive green jacket and places it on an empty chair beside her, revealing tattoos on both arms. “I have 17 tattoos and I’ve been to six different tattoo artists,” says the 39-year-old who works for an e-commerce firm. Yoon Na-ri…
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Echoes Podcast – Marissa Nadler Interview
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20:34Echoes 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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14:50Echoes 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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20:27Mixing 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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Many fans of the Japanese comics genre manga consider the 1988 Japanese manga hit “Akira” — about a boy and a scientific experiment gone wrong — an all-time classic film. Akira helped bring the manga craze to the West. And it’s also the name of, and inspiration for, a comics store in Madrid, which has been recently named the best in the world. “I l…
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Echoes Podcast – Nicholas Gunn Goes Trance
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19:43Nicholas 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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Every August, the Scottish capital turns into a stage. For three and a half weeks, Edinburgh hosts The Fringe, the world’s largest performing arts festival. This year’s tally: nearly 4,000 shows, artists from more than 70 countries and genres spanning from improvised magic to Nora Ephron-inspired romcoms and even punk ballet. Comedian Adam Greene l…
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One of the first things that jumps out about Fima Chupakhin is that he loves to laugh. He has the kind of contagious, welcoming and easygoing attitude that rubs off on other people. His generally positive disposition flows into his passion for music. That passion, he says, started at an early age. “There was a tiny toy piano in our apartment. I jus…
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Echoes Podcast: Klaus Schulze-An Icon of Electronics
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23:13Klaus 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: AvaWaves 2025 Interview
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18:55Echoes 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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Geometric patterns on cloth. Symbols etched into sacred masks. Experts believe it’s all part of an ancient, largely forgotten writing system that was used by women in Zambia. Recently, the curators at the National Museum of World Culture in Stockholm, Sweden, invited a group of Zambian women to help understand the meanings of some artifacts and the…
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Echoes Podcast: A Medical Journey with Course
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17:34Trauma, 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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18:33Anoushka 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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16:02Fear, 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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1:03:48The 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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16:57Dream 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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16:20David 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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On a Wednesday evening in Iztapalapa, a working-class neighborhood in Mexico City, a block party began to form at sunset near the metro station. It was a typical sonidero event: no stage, no food vendors, no headliner — just two towering speakers, a microphone and a sonidero DJ whose voice echoed down the street. As commuters emerged from the subwa…
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Echoes Podcast Ólafur Arnalds & Loreen
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21:21Ambient 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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52:20Michael 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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18:06Back 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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4:58Keith 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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47:29A 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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20:31Electronic 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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Brazilian rapper Brisa Flow made history as the first Indigenous artist on the lineup of Lollapalooza Brazil in 2023. But she said that her success has come at a price. “Being a pioneer brings wounds; there’s no way you can have a machete opening a path and not get some branches on your face,” she said, adding, “I got many, and I believe I learned …
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Echoes Podcast: Sasha’s Electronic Da Vinci
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15:30Days 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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46:47A 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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Echoes Podcast: Peter Gregson Interview
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17:31Peter 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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15:07A 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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23:22Mutantrumpet 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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17:17Krautrock 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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Echoes Podcast Special: Steve Roach 70th
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12:13Electronic 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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18:26Amon 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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Echoes Podcast: Big Ears Festival 2025
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27:01Explore 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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1:30:59Remembering 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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32:29Echoes 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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Echoes Podcast: Emma Anderson Interview
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16:18Emma 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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20:39The 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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Echoes Podcast: Rena Jones & KiloWatts
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17:40The 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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10:31We 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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31:02Kraftwerk'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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16:15On 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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