Interview Podcast – Echoes

The Metamorphosis of Llynks in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, an interview with Llynks. She graduated from the Berklee School of Music, tried working as a model, started a music career with her birth name, Sara Kendall, then metamorphosed into Llynks, a dark, soul-revealing electronic pop project. She’s just released her debut album, Become the…

Echoes Podcast: The Moby Interview Moby talks about his presciently timely new album, All Visible Objects. Written mostly in 2019, its themes of revolution, isolation and contemplation seem to fit right in with these pandemic and protesting times. All Visible Objects harkens back to his dance and DJ days in the 1990s and also goes…

Four Albums from The Best of Echoes 2020, So Far by Austra, YPPAH, Grimes and Darshan AmbientThis past week we released The Best of Echoes So Far list, pausing at the midway point of an insane year to contemplate some of the music that has come out in the first six months. We picked 25…

Tangerine Dream-50 Years of Electronic Meditations: The Echoes Documentary In the Echoes Podcast, the Tangerine Dream Documentary 50 years ago Tangerine Dream began recording their electronic music in what was then West Berlin.  Founded by Edgar Froese, Tangerine Dream has epitomized the electronic age of music, recording over 150 albums of synthesized compositions.  Their film…

Taimane's Ukulele Fury in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, it’s a new generation of Ukulele player when we talk with Taimane. She’s a Hawaiian musician who studied with Jake Shimabukuro and is creating her own ukulele fusion that takes the instrument out of the luau and into the world on albums like Elemental and…

Emancipator's Electronic Folk and Jade Warrior-World Fusion Innovators in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast Emancipator and Jade Warrior Emancipator is an electronic musician who mixes synthesizers, sampled sounds and folk instruments into a hallucinatory sound. John Diliberto talks to Emancipator’s Douglas Appling about his father who made dulcimers and spun Orbital and how that…

Michael Whalen's Syntheszier Fantasy: The Echoes Podcast Interview In the Echoes Podcast, Composer Michael Whalen talks about his April CD of the Month, Sacred Spaces. It’s a return for Whalen to his progressive rock roots as he turns a classical composition into a synthesized fantasy. Sacred Spaces is an electronic symphony full of strikingly original…

Echoes Podcast: Kevin Braheny Fortune Talks to the Spirits In the Echoes Podcast it’s the return of a New Age pioneer when we talk with Kevin Braheny Fortune. He went 22 years without a new album, but now he has four releases of ambient music including his Dreamwalker Meditation Music trilogy. In the 1980s his…

Air's Nicolas Godin and Naneum in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast Air’s Nicolas Godin and Naneum The French Band AIR was one of the seminal electronic pop groups of the 1990s and oughts. They’ve gone dormant, but founding member Nicolas Godin has a new solo album out, Concrete and Glass, that began as an…

Poliça and Nicholas Gunn in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast we talk to singer Channy Leaneagh of Poliça and electronic musician Nicholas Gunn. Channy Leaneagh fell off a roof and broke her back, but that didn’t stop her from recording a great album with her group, Poliça . John Diliberto talks to Poliça’s Channy Leaneagh about her existential…