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Bing & Ruth mix reed instruments, two double basses, cello and delay electronics into a haunting, hypnotic ambient chamber music sound.
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Bing & Ruth in Echoes Podcast
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Lanterna in Echoes Podcast
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Henry Frayne has put out a string of wonderful albums bder the name Lanterna. It’s been nine years since he released an album, but he’s finally returned with Backyards. Frayne talks about his time away and the music it helped produce, a sound that was born on acoustic guitar.
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Johan Agebjorn in Echoes Podcast
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Johan Agebjorn recently released the album Notes, an ambitious song cycle exploring chamber and electronic moods with singers. Agebjorn has been a fixture on Sweden’s ambient and pop music scene for years. In the pop world he’s the mastermind behind Sally Shapiro, the electro-pop project with a singer whose identity remains cloaked, although it may be revealed in our interview. In ambient music he’s released several beautiful, often pastoral albums.
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Sonomad in Echoes Podcast
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Sonomad is a conceptual work about a “sound wanderer,” that involves concepts of life, infinity and beyond.
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Kaki King in Echoes Podcast
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Guitarist Kaki King talks about her daring new project The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body.
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Darin Mahoney in Echoes Podcast
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Darin Mahoney started out as a cowboy, but a near-death experience steered his life in a musical direction.
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Fernwood in Echoes Podcast
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Gayle Ellett and Todd Montgomery are modern musicians purveying a backwoods Americana global music fusion as Fernwood. Arcadia is their second album of mostly acoustic ruminations, orchestrated with everything from sitars and guitars to bouzoukis and dilruba in a global music of the imagination.
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Big Ears Festival in Echoes Podcast
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The Big Ears Festival might be the most adventurous and civilized festival in the country. It brings together artists on the cutting edges of music including Laurie Anderson, Nels Cline, Bill Frisell and A Winged Victory for the Sullen.
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Chad Lawson in Echoes Podcast
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Chad Lawson turns Chopin compositions into ambient chamber music on his 2014 album, The Chopin Variations. This musician traveled from jazz trios to chamber trios in his pursuit to strip Chopin down to an essence.
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Max Richter in Echoes Podcast
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Max Richter is among the second generation of ambient chamber music composers, creating haunting themes based in minimalist strategies.