Interview Podcast – Echoes

Ambient Chamber Music with AVAWaves and Blue Landscapes in Echoes Podcast. The Breadth of Ambient Chamber Music in the Echoes Podcast with Blue Landscapes and AVAWaves. Ambient Chamber Music is a meeting of classical music and ambient music and the duos of AVAWaves and Blue Landscapes are approaching it from very different directions.  Blue Landscapes, is the…

Kitaro & Tigerforest's Gunnar Spardel in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast Two Generations of Electronic Artists: Tigerforest’s Gunnar Spardel & Kitaro From electronic space to ambient chamber music, we talk to Gunnar Spardel, who composes somber and serene chamber music under his own name and upbeat, progressive electronic music under the guise of Tigerforest.…

Poppy Ackroyd's Ne0-Classical Moods in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, English composer Poppy Ackroyd.  Her album, Resolve was an Echoes CD of the Month two years ago. It’s finally out in the US. John Diliberto catches up with Poppy Ackroyd who talks about an approach to classical composition informed by punk rock and Radiohead.…

Eastern Fusion Past and future with Hans Christian and Ravi Shankar in Echoes Podcast.The Echoes Podcast explores Indian Fusion Past and Future with cellist Hans Christian and the 100th Birthday of Ravi Shankar. Cellist Hans Christian has been a fixture on Echoes for all its 30 years, both as a solo artist and with the…

Ukulele Giant Jake Shimabukuro Goes Beyond in the Echoes Podcast. In the Echoes Podcast, Jake Shimabukuro, the virtuoso Hawaiian ukulele player, talks about revolutionizing an instrument often seen as a novelty into a tool of pyrotechnic fury and ambient expanses. His new album, The Jake Shimabukuro Trio is a stylistic shift into more contemplative, ambient…

In the Echoes Podcast, a lost icon, Deep Mountain's Bapak Dudal. There are so many great musicians we’ve interviewed over 30 years of Echoes who just never quite broke the surface of popularity we thought they would.  Dogon, Steven Kindler, Janus Ensemble, Greg Klamt, Michelle Sell and Doug Smith are just a few names that leap to mind. An artist who shouldn’t be on that list is Deep Mountain, the recording project of Bapak Dudal.

He was a pioneer of ambient world fusion, but being from Paradakistan, a tiny former Soviet Republic nation, his releases were small pressings, mostly on cassette, that didn’t make it much out into the world. But those who discovered them cherished his music.  We interviewed Bapak Dudal twice. The first time was 1996. We return to that interview when we traveled to the capital city, Sidach and took a hike up Deep Mountain.

Alex Somers and Gentle Giant in Echoes Podcast.ALEX SOMERS In the Echoes Podcast this week, Alex Somers and Gentle Giant. Alex Somers is a name you hear on the fringes. He’s produced people like singer Briana Marella and Julianna Barwick.  He worked on the last two albums from Icelandic Icons, Sigur Ros and then formed…

Lane 8's Chilled EDM & Ralph Towners 80th Birthday We talk to Daniel Goldstein, better known as the electronic artist, Lane 8. He makes a chilled brand of EDM and recently released his album, Brightest Lights with guest vocalists that include Polica and Artic Lights. He calls his sound “dreamy back-rub house music” and bands…

Agnes Obel Interview in Echoes Podcast: Myopic Beauty In the Echoes Podcast, Danish singer Agnes Obel.  She creates a haunting ambient chamber pop music and has  been a big part of the show since her 2010 debut, Philharmonics, an Echoes CD of the Month, as was her last album, Citizen of Glass.  She puts out a…

Big Ears Festival 2020 Preview and Jon Christensen Remembered this Week in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, we talk to Ashley Capps about his Big Ears 2020 Festival.  Then we remember drummer Jon Christensen, the ECM house drummer. The Big Ears Music Festival 2020 is upon us. We talk to founder Ashley Capps as…