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’t become as much of a movement as I would like, but it did kind of happen. So I’m happy about that.

Guitarist Matthew Montfort, is a  co-founder of Ancient Future.  They were active bringing world fusion to the world from 1979 to 2001 and their 7th album, Planet Passion. After a quarter century of relative silence, they’ve returned with a new EP that is keeping the Ancient Future spirit moving forward.  Today, I’ll talk to founding members, Mathew Montfort and tabla and esraj player Benjy Wertheimer, who take us into the history of the band and their new EP. Purple Nirvana,  which features covers of Jimi Hendrix and Nirvana, but not like you’d expect them to sound.  Hear it in the Echoes Podcast.

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