Interview Podcast – Echoes PRI

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 travel to Ukraine to talk with Andrei Ivanov, who records as Vonavi. Ukraine is something of a backwater when it comes to any international music scene, but Vonavi has found a way out, through the internet.  This young electronic composer has just released his impressive debut album, Reflections. He talks to us from his Ukranian home studio. We also talk to his vocal accomplices, Chris James of Run RIvers and Lorna Rose.

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.