Interview Podcast – Echoes

ANDY MCKEE INTERVIEW: YOU TUBE PHENOMENON. Andy McKee is a fingerstyle guitarist in the tradition of Michael Hedges, and he also plays harp guitar. He's best-known for the You Tube video for his tune Drifting, which has been viewed over 7 million times. Andy McKee talks about his YouTube stardom and the guitar playing that got him there.

RUSSEL WALDER INTERVIEW: RISE ASCENDS A former Windham Hill oboist orchestrates an ambient chamber music masterpiece. Russel Walder was a mainstay of the 1980s instrumental music scene. He recorded on Windham Hill Records in a duo with pianist Ira Stein and guested on many other records. After many years and emigration to New Zealand he's released a new solo CD that merges ambient chamber music, world music and electronica...

ROGER DEAN INTERVIEW: THE NATURAL WORLD REIMAGINED The cover art illustrator who defined the Progressive Rock era. Roger Dean hasn't played a note, but his cover illustrations for Yes and many others created imaginary worlds that sang their own song. We talk with Roger Dean and Yes singer Jon Anderson about Dean's interaction with bands like Yes and his transformation of the natural world into a supernatural world.

EVAN BARTHOLOMEW INTERVIEW: THE CLASSICAL SIDE OF BLUETECH We know Evan Bartholomew as ambient and electronic composer Bluetech. But Evan grew up studying classical music and piano. He brings that side to a CD called BORDERLANDS. We talk with him about picking up the digital baton.

DAVE FULTON AND GILES REAVES: TONE ON THE RANGE Dave Fulton was a founder of the veteran space music band, Dweller at the Threshold. Giles Reaves created an electronic classic in the 1980s with his debut album, WUNJO. The musicians got together to create electronic music in a cross country collaboration. We talk with Dave Fulton and Giles Reaves about their CD, THE RANGE.

Paul Winter, the creator of world fusion chamber music, marrying Jazz, Classical and World-Music traditions, has been a frequent guest on Echoes. To celebrate his birthday this week, we revisit an interview with Paul Winter from the early days of Echoes.

KLAUS SCHULZE An original member of Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel, Schulze is best known for a string of space music albums in the 1970s and 80s with driving sequencer patterns and surreal imagery. In the early 1990s, Klaus looked back on his career.

Starr Parodi honed her chops in the Arsenio Hall Show Band in the early 1990s and has played fusion keyboards with numerous artists. Now she spends her time with her husband, Jeff Fair, writing film soundtracks and movie trailers. Recently, she turned off her keyboards and sat at a piano for the ruminations of her album, Common Places. Starr Parodi and Jeff Fair talk about an album that mixes originals with unusual cover choices like Buffalo Springfield's for What It's Worth.

HAROLD BUDD and ROBIN GUTHRIE: SHOEGAZERS IN AMBIENCE Harold Budd is the keyboardist who created the sound of ambient chamber music. Robin Guthrie created dream guitar textures as the guitarist of The Cocteau Twins. The two musicians first got together in the 1980s and have reunited some 20 years later for a pair of atmospherically chilled albums, "After the Night Falls" and "Before the Day Breaks."

AN INTERVIEW WITH THE LUMINOUS WORLD ORCHESTRA: Steven Chesne has made his living composing scores for middle-brow TV shows, but those credits don't prepare you for the subtle global sounds he creates under the guise of The Luminous World Orchestra.