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 albums and duo albums with Jon Jenkins. Collectively, he has 5 previous CD of the Month picks. . Along with Helpling, Eric “The” Taylor is part of the ambient quartet Dark Sky Alliance and he is in an electronic duo with Mick Chillage called The Architects of Existence. The Precious Dark is a dark.

David Helpling: I think a lot of the darkness comes from the textures, the drones, the lack of drums. Like if it was a landscape, it would be kind of desolate, maybe. There isn’t a whole lot of rhythmic stuff going on.

John Diliberto talks to them about dark ambient in the Echoes Podcast from PRX.

Read our review of The Precious Dark