PRX: Echoes Interview Podcast

Bassist Erik Scott's Melancholy Bass Chill in Echoes Podcast

Bassist Erik Scott played psychedelic music, performed with Alice Cooper and Flo and Eddie and has survived cancer. So what does he do at the age of 70?  He makes beautiful, melancholy instrumental atmospheres centered on the melodies of his electric bass. We talk to him about his latest album, A Trick of the Wind. He describes his journey from the 1969 psychedelic band, Food, to Alice Cooper, to his bass dreamscapes, in the Echoes Podcast.

CloZee in the Echoes Podcast

On the next Echoes rising EDM star, CloZee comes in to talk about a sound that she has called World Bass. She mixes sampled sounds of global instruments and motifs and mixes them with her classical guitar on a new album called Evasion. We bring you closer to CloZee in the Echoes Podcast.

Dead Can Dance's Brendan Perry Explores the Dionysian Myth in Echoes Podcast.

In the Echoes Podcast Dead Can Dance talk about their new conceptual album, Dionysus, a wedding of Greek mythology, tribal culture and global ritual sounds. Actually, Brendan Perry talks and one of the things he talks about is why Lisa Gerrard is so little heard on this album where he explores the Dionysian myth, hallucinogens, ritual and ecstasy. Join us in the Bacchanal of the Echoes Podcast with Brendan Perry from Dead Can Dance on Echoes.

Also hear our Podcast with Lisa Gerrard and The Mysterious Voices of Bulgaria.

Olivia Chaney is a singer who seemed to burst on the scene three years ago with a debut album on the prestigious Nonesuch label.  It was marketed as a folk album and certainly sounded like something throwing back to the British folk revival of the 1960s. But Chaney has a deeper background than that, some of which emerges on her latest album, Shelter. Chaney played in our studio recently and after she finished, we just kept talking. Hear her in the Echoes Podcast.

Mystic Journey's Global Fusion in Echoes Podcast

Suzanne Teng and Gilbert Levy have been creating world fusion music for nearly two decades.  As Mystic Journey they create music full of Gilbert’s propulsive global rhythms and Tengs sensuous flute melodies on instruments from around the world.  Their most recent album, Kingdom of Mountains, was the CD of the Month last September. We talk to the two musicians about the new inspiration of their Sante Fe home, a stint with the Hare Krishnas and returning from dystonia. Hear the voyage of Mystic Journey when we tal to them in the Echoes Podcast.

Jorma Kaukonen Flashes Back in Echoes Podcast

On the next Echoes we talk to the legendary guitarist of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, Jorma Kaukonen. His work with Jefferson Airplane took guitar into new directions Jorma went on from the Airplane to form Hot Tuna with long-time friend and Airplane bassist Jack Cassady and they are still going today. Jorma, now 77 years old has just published his autobiography, Been So Long.  He takes us back to the psychedelic sixties, into the blues and out the other side. We fly with Jefferson Airplane’s Jorma Kaukonen, in Echoes Podcast.    

Miami Vice Music Creator Jan Hammer in Echoes Podcast

Jan Hammer came to renown as the keyboardist with the fusion group, The Mahavishnu Orchestra. He went on to a string of solo albums and collaborations with artists like Jeff Beck, John Abercrombie, Neil Schon of Journey, and Al Di Meola. Then in 1984, he began composing the score for TV’s Miami Vice, one of the signature shows and themes of the 1980s.  He won several Grammy awards, got Emmy nominations that he probably should have won and was featured on the covers of Keyboard Magazine and others. It was a long journey for the Czechoslovakian-born and raised keyboardist, who started out as a jazz musician.  But for most of this millennium, the keyboardist has been silent.  But Jan Hammer is back, a little. Jan Hammer casts back on his long and influential career on Echoes.

Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland in A Flashback 50

Take a Flashback 50 to Electric Ladyland when we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix’s monumental album from 1968. Jefferson Airplane’s Jorma Kaukonen, Krautrock producer Conny Plank, Wilco guitarist Nels Cline, German producer Conny Plank, Ex-Alice Cooper bassist and ambient composer Erik Scott, ambient guitarist Jeff Pearce, Bombay Dub Orchestra’s Garry Hughes, Moby, Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry talk about this epochal work.  Electric Ladyland was recently released in a deluxe 50th anniversary edition.  See it here. Join us in Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland, on Echoes.  https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07GGPT67F/echoes0a0-20

Wendy Carlos' Switched-On Bach Turns 50 in Echoes Podcast

It was 1968 when Wendy Carlos took her Moog synthesizer and applied it to the contrapuntal music of Johann Sebastian Bach.  The album was called Switched-On Bach and it changed the shape of modern music forever.  It took synthesizers out of the world of sound effects and the avant-garde and into the mass market. Switched-On Bach was the herald of the future and made Robert Moog’s invention synonymous with synthesizer. We celebrate the  album’s 50th Anniversary with Wendy Carlos in the Echoes Podcast

Here’s an article on Four Switched-On Masterworks by Wendy Carlos.

Jefferson Airplane's Crown of Creation in a Flashback 50 in Echoes Podcast

In the Echoes Podcast, a Flashback 50 to 1968 and the fourth album by Jefferson Airplane, Crown of Creation. Jefferson Airplane were, along with Jimi Hendrix, the flagship of psychedelic rock, more so than the Grateful Dead or Pink Floyd, who really hadn’t arrived in the states yet. And they used psychedelic affectations to embrace a world of sound from folk to jazz to classical, but in a way that was uniquely Jefferson Airplane.  Crown of Creation lived up to its title with many of the Airplane’s most inventive and powerful songs. Sadly, on the evening this was broadcast on September 27th, Marty Balin, the founding member, left the planet. In an expanded version of the feature, we fly Jefferson Airplane’s Crown of Creation, on an Echoes Flashback 50 in the Echoes Podcast.

Read our profile of Paul Kantner.