Interview Podcast – Echoes

Peter Kater's Hard Road to New Age Bliss & Lyle Mays RememberedWe talk with 2020 Grammy winning pianist Peter Kater and we remember Lyle Mays of the Pat Metheny Group. In the Echoes Podcast, pianist Peter Kater.  When a musician wins a Grammy award, you often don’t know what they went through to get there.…

Echoes Podcast: David Helpling's Oceanic Ambience: An Interview In the Echoes Podcast, guitarist David Helpling takes us into the runic and oceanic influences of his January CD of the Month, Rune. Helpling is a southern California musician who has been a favorite on the show for about 25 years. He’s recorded all his albums on…

In the Echoes Podcast, All India Radio talks about his latest missive from Australia, Eternal, opens with a robot voice giving the exhortation, “Let’s Dance.” But this ain’t no party.  It’s a space music opus influenced by Pink Floyd and early electronic music. All India Radio's Martin Kennedy use's samples from a bad 1962 Sci-Fi Film, The Creation of Humanoids, to tie together a retro-futuristic album.

Martin Kennedy: My mission is to bring space rock to the chill out crowd with a little bit of old school hip hop thrown in, too.  I don’t know, I honestly don’t know what I would call my music.  But  I do like space rock.

Eternal was the Echoes CD of the Month for December 2019 and his previous album, Space earned the same honor in 2018. Hear Martin Kennedy talk about his space rock opuses on Echoes.

Read review of All India Radio's Space

Read review of All India Radio's Eternal

Hear All India Radio's previous Echoes Interview.

In the Echoes Podcast we take a deep dive into the world of Steve Roach. The prolific electronic artist has been part of Echoes for all of its 30 years and more. We've chronicled his electronic evolution more than just about anyone. Steve released several albums in 2019 including Bloom Ascension and Trance Archeology. After several years of modular synth strategies, Ambient-Tribal music returns. We talk about them and new directions with Steve Roach.

Read John Diliberto's Review of Bloom Ascension and Trance Archeology

Hear Steve Roach's earlier, extended interview from 2017 in the Echoes Podcast.

In the Echoes Podcast, Barrett Martin takes us on a Global percussion Trek and we Remember Darshan Ambient.

First we talk to multi-instrumentalist, world fusionist, author, Zen monk and former drummer with Screaming Trees, Barrett Martin. He’s created a world fusion sound with his group in which he specializes in global percussion. We go on a world music journey with Barrett Martin on Echoes.

Then, we remember Michael Allison, who recorded as Darshan Ambient.  He has a new recording, A Day Like Any Other, but tragically, just as this album was released, Allison passed-away from cancer. We'll hear music from one of the most distinctive and eclectic of ambient composers and hear his life story from interviews we've conducted on Echoes over the last two decades.

Darshan Ambient Little Things CD of the Month Review :

Darshan Ambient Dream In Blue CD of the Month review.

In the Echoes Podcast we talk with Fink. He's a British electronic musician turned ambient singer-songwriter, who creates deep ruminative songs sung in his mellifluous tenor.  He talks about his latest album, Bloom Innocent and finds links between blues, electronica and New Orleans.

Last week we counted down The Best of Echoes 2019, a list of our 25 favorite album. Now, Echoes' John Diliberto takes a stroll through that list, giving some context and commentary and highlighting some of the lesser known recordings and artists on the album including Michael Gulezian, Theodore, Mark Dwane, Spatialize, Hugar, Rise, Bluetech and our number one album, The Secret of Letting Go by Rise. Join us in the Echoes podcast as John Diliberto puts words and music to The Best of Echoes 2019. You can see the complete list here as well as a Spotify Playlist.

Hear Michael Gulezian Concert.

Hear Theodore in Concert

Hear Hugar Live

Hear Hugar Interview in Echoes Podcast

Hear Rise Interview in Echoes Podcast

Hear Bluetech Interview in Echoes Podcast

Hear Lamb Interview in Echoes Podcast

In the Echoes Podcast we talk with Neuland and take a Flashback 50 to Fairport Convention's Liege and Lief.

Neuland is the name of a project featuring two former members of Tangerine Dream, Peter Baumann and Paul Haslinger. Baumann was a member of the classic edition of the dream, appearing on albums like Phaedra, Rubycon, Ricochet and Stratosfear. He went on to found the Private Music label. Haslinger was a member in the 1980s, during their Private Music years and most prolific soundtrack years. He went on to release some wonderful solo albums, record with Lightwave and has scored several movies and TV shows, including editions of the Underworld and Resident Evil series, and the TV shows Halt and Catch Fire and Fear the Walking Dead. They’ve gotten together for an all-electronic project that takes them beyond their roots. We talk to Peter Baumann and Paul Haslinger of Neuland in the Echoes Podcast.    

Then we travel back 50 years to December 2, 1969 and the release of Fairport Convention's Liege and Lief, in a Flashback 50. Released on December 2, 1969, the third of three albums they put out that year, they wed rock timbres and rhythms to 16th century folk songs. Singer Sandy Denny, violinist Dave Swarbrick, guitarist Simon Nicol, bassist Ashley Hutchings, and drummer Dave Mattacks created a classic of English folk rock that has influenced generations, including groups like Led Zeppelin, Loreena McKennitt, and The Decemberists. John Diliberto takes us back to this epic album.

In the Echoes Podcast, Rise emerges from the ashes of Talitha Rise. In 2018 our number one album of the year was An Abandoned Orchid House by Talitha Rise. We interviewed Jo Beth Young and Martyn Barker who made up that group. But now, we’ve gotten a new album by Young, and it’s released just under the name of Rise. It’s called Strangers and that title works on many levels. We’ll talk to Jo Beth Young, who reveals the harrowing changes she endured to emerge with her self-produced album. Join us with Jo Beth Young of Rise on Echoes.