PRX: Echoes Interview Podcast

Brigitte Bardini - Psychedelic Depression Dreams in Echoes Podcast

In the Echoes Podcast, we talk with Australian singer-songwriter Brigitte Bardini. She dropped out of her psychology major when she decided to become a musician. Her impressive debut, Stellar Lights, was an Echoes Top 30 album of 2021. She talks about abandoned organs, psychedelic dreams and depression. We hear the story of this beautifully crafted album and the woman behind it when we talk with Brigitte Bardini in the Echoes Podcast.

Tori Amos - Personal Turmoil and Global Strife: The Echoes Podcast

Hear our 2014 interview with Tori Amos.

Electronic Bliss-A Journey From The Past To The Future At The Electronic Music Education and Preservation Project in Echoes Podcast

Synthesizer junkies enter paradise when we visit the Electronic Music Education and Preservation Project, or EMEAPP. It houses what must be one of the largest collections of electronic music instruments in the world, including many played by world famous artists.

Drew Raison: We’re standing in front of an elaborate exhibit of quite a few keyboard instruments and ancillary gear owned and used by Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer.  Yes, we are standing in front of the world’s most famous synthesizer, also known as the world’s most dangerous synthesizer.  And certainly known as the most iconic synthesizer in the world.

You’ll even hear John Diliberto play Emerson’s Moog. If you love electronic instruments, music and especially synthesizers, you are going to be in heaven when we plug into electronic bliss at EMEAPP on the Echoes Podcast.

Founder Vince Pupillo Sr & Executive Director Drew Raison of EMEAPP.

Marconi Union Finds the Groove in the Echoes Podcast

We hear from a true 21st century band when we talk to Marconi Union. The British electronic trio has a new album called Signals that finds them tapping a more rhythmic, drum-driven sound, even though there are no drums. They talk about influences from 60s psychedelia, “but not the prissy stuff” and 70s German rock, and try to hide the mystery of Ilex. Signals was the November Echoes CD of the Month. Tune in to Marconi Union in the Echoes Podcast.

Echoes Podcast: Led Zeppelin - The Bob Spitz Biography: The Echoes Interview

It’s a Whole Lotta Love for Led Zeppelin on Echoes when we talk with Bob Spitz, author of Led Zeppelin: The Biography. He takes us from poverty to Kashmir, drugs to death and heavy metal to heaven.

Bob Spitz: Look, they were the kings of bad behavior on the road.  They brought bad behavior into the spotlight in rock and roll.  They made it kind of, you know, this is what you do as a rock and roll artist.

And then there’s the music. We talk about fuzz boxes and fantasy lyrics, sex & drugs, occultists and criminals. It’s all part of Bob Spitz’s  book, Led Zeppelin: The Biography, a detailed account of one of rocks most iconic bands. Take a stairway to Bob Spitz and Led Zeppelin in the Echoes Podcast.

Peter Gregson's 21st Century Orchestra: The Echoes Podcast

Peter Gregson is a classically-trained cellist.  He’s recorded with orchestras as well as composers Max Richter and the late-Jóhann Jóhannsson. He’s also composed music for film and video games including, Ammonite. He goes into ambient chamber music on his recording Patina. It mixes synthesizers and electronic processing and his cello run through a vocoder. Join us when we talk with Peter Gregson in the Echoes Podcast.

Rena Jones's Mythology Through Music: The Echoes Interview

Rena Jones is a polymath. She plays violin, cello and synthesizers and immerses her music in the imagery of nature and philosophy. Her new album is Allegories. We talk with Rena Jones and her accomplice on the album, world music artist Jeff Thomas Potts about the global grooves and hidden meanings on Echoes.

Echoes Podcast: Marissa Nadler's Unsolved Mystery & Pink Floyd's Meddle at 50

In the Echoes Podcast Marissa Nadler & Pink Floyd’s Meddle at 50

We all watched TV during pandemic isolation, but singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler got an album out of it. It’s called The Path of the Clouds and it’s inspired by the Unsolved Mysteries TV show. She turns these tales into personal metaphor about change, love, mysticism and murder. We solve the mystery of Marissa Nadler on Echoes.

It’s Echoes of “Echoes” on Echoes. 50 years ago, Pink Floyd released their album Meddle, which included the side-long opus “Echoes,” from whence the radio show, Echoes, takes its name. Take a quick intro to this influential band and hear all twenty-three minutes and thirty-two second of “Echoes” described in three minutes and twenty seconds.

Crowd-Sourced Creativity: Kevin Keller-The Echoes Podcast

Ambient Chamber music composer Kevin Keller took the RPM Challenge to record an album in one month. To do it, he enlisted his fans, running a daily blog where he considered their suggestions to create his music. The results are his new album, Shimmer, which, despite all the input, is distinctly Keven Keller. We talk to Kevin Keller about crowd-sourcing music in the Echoes Podcast.

Otherworld Music-Stephan Micus: in Echoes Podcast

Before there was a “world music” genre, there was Stephan Micus, playing instruments from Afghanistan to India to Indonesia.  However, ever since his first album, Archaic Concerts, in 1976, the German composer was never making world music, but other-worldly music.  He plays his ethnic instruments in non-traditional ways, multi-tracking them in layered arrangements, creating a usually meditative excursion. He recently released a new album, Winter’s End.  We talk to Stephan Micus about his imaginary world music in the Echoes Podcast..