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THE LAST STATION -- Writer/director Michael Hoffman talks with Andrea Chase about his film.
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
THE LAST STATION -- Writer/director Michael Hoffman talks with Andrea Chase about using Chekhov to get to Tolstoy, why love is as wondrous and infu...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2010
  • Length: 16:04
Wicked Maine Limericks
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The limerick is a form of poetry that is short, rhyming and often of a sexual nature.

Bought by SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:10
  • Purchases: 1
Fiddle-icious
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Ordinarily, if you want to perform with an orchestra you have to have years of musical experience and you have to go through a rigorous audition pr...

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and KUT


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:42
  • Purchases: 3
A Nashville Insider Steps Outside
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Guitarist Michael Spriggs
Michael Spriggs has been a Nashville session guitarist with the likes of Eddie Rabbitt, Dolly Parton and Faith Hill. In the 90s he began exploring...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Dec 31, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Wandering the Psychedelic Galaxy with Gong
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Daevid Allen of Gong
It's been 40 years since Daevid Allen convened his space gypsy rock band Gong which influenced everyone from Ozric Tentacles to Steve Roach. Allen...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Americana Pulls up its Roots
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: trumpeter Jon Hassell
Americana is a genre that usually refers to rustic music with roots in heartland American sounds from folk, blues and country. But recently, Americ...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Dec 18, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Next Gary Larson? The Oatmeal.
From: Andrew Davis
Caption: TheOatmeal Cartoon Frame, Credit: TheOatmeal.com
Remember the Farside comics? Here's an interview with the Farside 2.0

  • Added: Dec 12, 2009
  • Length: 07:48
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG: Disney animators Mark Henn and Mike Surrey talk to Andrea Chase
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG: Animators Mark Henn and Mike Surrey talk to Andrea Chase about the pleasures and perils of returning to hand-drawn anima...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2009
  • Length: 15:03
An Interview With Baaba Maal
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Baaba Maal
Senegalese singer Baaba Maal talks about the evolution of the African Griot and his own ethereal new CD, Television, recorded with The Brazilian Gi...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Dec 09, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
Acoustic Youth
From: With Good Reason
Series: Folklife FieldNotes
Caption: Adam Larkey
Many of the musicians who perform at fiddlers' conventions and music festivals throughout southern Appalachia are, in fact, young kids.

Bought by WMMT, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and WTIP


  • Added: Dec 04, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 3
Cocteau Twins Guitarist Rides a Carousel of Drifting, Paisley-Dappled Tone Poems
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Guitarist Robin Guthrie
Robin Guthrie's shimmering, ringing guitars, layers of echo and darkly melancholy themes play over trancey rhythm machines

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Nov 25, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
The East-West fusion of Urban Nature
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Urban Nature is the duo of guitarist Todd Boston and Indian percussionist Ramesh Kannan. They’re updating the East-West fusion of John McLaughlin'...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Carmen Rizzo and Huun Huur Tu: Tuvan throat singers meet an electronic mix-master
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Carmen Rizzo
Huun Huur Tu is a band from Tuva specializing in the ancient style of harmonic singing that comes from that region. Their music is combined with th...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Nov 10, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Two artists from different musical worlds travel an interior journey together
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Frio Suite
Legendary guitarist Phil Keaggy and keyboardist Jeff Johnson collaborate on a tone poem of intricately painted landscapes, inspired by Texas' Frio ...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Nov 05, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Ben Neill: Mutantrumpet Ninja
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Ben Neill is the sole player of an instrument called the mutantrumpet. It has three different bells, two sets of valves, a mini-trombone slide and ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Rena Jones: The diva of ambient cello
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Rena Jones, Credit: John Diliberto
There's a lot of looping, electronic cellists out there, but Rena Jones is one of the few who is also orchestrating her own electronica backings, c...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Donna De Lory's sacred chants and songs
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Donna De Lory
Donna De Lory turns Hindi chants into spiritual pop songs. A back-up singer for Madonna and a gifted singer-songwriter in her own right, Donna De ...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
Karda Estra: Gothic images in chamber rock music
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Karda Estra is the recording persona of English composer Richard Wileman. He started out as a rocker but veered into composing classical works for ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 28, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
BEAR McCREARY: FROM SYNTHESIZERS TO CYLONS
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Bear McCreary
The music and musician behind TV’s best Sci-Fi show

  • Added: Sep 25, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
Leonard Nimoy
From: Tony Tellado
Series: Best Of Sci-Fi Talk
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Legendary actor talks to me about his time with Company Of Angels, a theater company he helped found and a special event that he is a part of on Oc...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2009
  • Length: 15:54
Chris Bocast and MJ Catalin: Global Possibilities
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Chris Bocast
Ambient guitar meets electronica percussion via the internet in a CD of cinematic sweep

  • Added: Sep 04, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
More Legends
From: The Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis
Series: Art for Ears
Caption: Amanda Ratliff
In this program we explore legends kept alive by historic recordings and the performers’ unmatched contributions to the musical world.

Bought by KVLU


  • Added: Aug 28, 2009
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 1
Legends
From: The Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis
Series: Art for Ears
Caption: Amanda Ratliff
This week we study great legends of the past—legendary performers, legendary recordings.

Bought by KVLU


  • Added: Aug 24, 2009
  • Length: 28:10
  • Purchases: 1
Astrology and Mythology
From: The Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis
Series: Art for Ears
Caption: Amanda Ratliff
This week we consider the influence of astrology and mythology on music.

Bought by KVLU


  • Added: Jul 24, 2009
  • Length: 26:29
  • Purchases: 1
“Call me unpredictable”
From: The Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis
Series: Art for Ears
Caption: Amanda Ratliff
The great lyricist Sammy Cahn once wrote the famous “Call me irresponsible” for a 1963 film. We all know the words sung by Frank Sinatra: “call me ...

Bought by KVLU


  • Added: Jul 16, 2009
  • Length: 27:18
  • Purchases: 1

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