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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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, …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
As the curtain rises on the musical “Mar i Cel,” it begins with an introductory history lesson. It’s the year 1609, and the king of Spain, in Madrid, issues a royal decree to deport the so-called Moriscos, the Spanish Muslims forcibly baptized and converted to Christianity. For centuries, medieval Spain had large Muslim and Jewish populations. But …
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…
Most actors would cross Siberia barefoot to audition for “The White Lotus.” Patravadi Mejudhon didn’t even want to go across town. “One day, somebody called and said, ‘Please come audition for “The White Lotus,”’” the veteran actress told The World. “I said, ‘No, I don’t think I have time.’” Patravadi could’ve made time. But in her mid-70s, she’d l…
Sophie Javadi-Babreh grew up surrounded by carpets. They were so much a part of her life that she even refers to them as her brothers and sisters. “It’s like … they’re colorful, the patterns and the touch of them. They were really enjoyable to be around,” she said. Sophie and her brother, Hugo Javadi-Babreh, spent hours playing on them. The piles o…
Richard Chen, 24, a website and application developer living in Paris, remembers the exact episode of the animated television series “Dragon Ball Z” that made him want to be an artist. He was 4 years old, and it was a fight between the characters Goku and Cell. After that, he said, he was hooked on Japanese anime and manga, and he was always drawin…
Broadway musicals often try out in cities like Boston and Philadelphia before debuting in New York. But a new show has traveled a much farther distance. “Maybe Happy Ending” has been produced six times in South Korea over the past decade. The performance opened on Broadway last fall and has established itself as a stealth hit. That means, unlike ma…
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…
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 …
Shaman Gino Raúl Grünewald Condori stands on the street corner of a working-class neighborhood. His hands are in the air. He’s making an offering to Pachamama, also known as Mother Earth. Herbs and coca leaves are laid out on a colorful blanket on the ground. Condori throws incense on the flames of a small fire and pours alcohol and wine on the fou…
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…
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, …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…