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 Compact. SUSS is the American Ambient Country group with guitarist Bob Holmes, guitarist Pat Irwin of The Raybeats, The B-52s and soundtracks for the last two Dexter Series among many other, and pedal steel guitarist Jonathan Gregg of Jonathan Gregg & the Lonesome Debonaires.

This unlikely pairing has produced an album that’s a true meeting of ambient, country and Krautrock aesthetics and a style I might have to dub Krautrock Country. It’s spaghetti western music in space.

Colin Newman: There is a part of Malka and I that we do love, that motoric beat. And there is definitely a side of immersion that is, you know, we are quite… Into rhythm. Into rhythm. And that is the very opposite of SUSS.

Bob Holmes: . . . my goodness, they’re going to give us a song like State of Motion that has all of this rhythm in it. What happens if we give them a track that has all this air and openness in it.

Colin Newman and Bob Holmes. I talk to all members of Suss and immersion in the Echoes Podcast.

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