Go to Edgeland with Underworld’s Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams.

Hear Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams talk about Edgeland in Echoes Tonight.

In the 1980s, Rick Smith and Karl Hyde got together in a band called Freur and then formed the influential electronic dance group Underworld.  They’ve been musically inseparable until recently.  Rick Smith scored the soundtrack for Trance and Karl Hyde released his solo debut, working with Brian Eno collaborator, Leo Abrahams.   The album is called Edgeland.  I travel with Karl Hyde and Leo Abrahams to the outskirts of civilization.

Highlights:

Karl Hyde Painting

Karl Hyde on synaesthesia: I’m synaesthetic in as much as I see shapes and hear colors, and colors make sounds and buildings generate words.

Karl Hyde on decay:  I’m largely drawn to what we think of as decay and I find very beautiful…you know, the cracks in pavement or walls, weeds, discarded things, things that I see as markers left behind by people who are on journeys, things we need to find and to follow like a trail of breadcrumbs. I find all of these to be very beautiful in their rhythm, in their sequencing.

Leo Abrahams on improvised songs:  He [Karl Hyde] literally will turn up with notebooks full of lyrics that he’d written often on the train on the way down to my studio.  And he’d just say, “Play something.”

Hear more of Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams’ interview in Echoes tonight.

FurtherListening: Brian Eno’s Stormy Seas
Interview with Leo Abrahams

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Echoes Top 25-Rachel Zeffira Shines in June.

Echoes Top 25 for June features Dream-Pop, Ambient Chamber Music and Space Music.

Rachel Zefirra – The Deserters

The Echoes Top 25 is led by singer-songwriter Rachel Zeffira whose album, The Deserters was the Echoes CD of the Month.  This chamber pop singer is joined by several other vocal ensembles in the Top 25 including Karl Hyde, Olivier Libaux, Seven Saturdays and Still Corners.  In fact, eleven of the Top 25 are vocal groups marking a bit of a sea change in where Echoes music is going.  But there’s still plenty of ambient and space music out there including the number two album, Exploration and Ascent by Northcape and Jah Wobble & Marconi Union’s deep space dub album, Anomic.  Here’s the complete list of The Echoes Top 25 for June.

ECHOES TOP 25 FOR JUNE

1. Rachel Zeffira – The Deserters (Paper Bag)
2. Northcape – Exploration and Ascent (SunSeaSky)
3. Ólafur Arnalds – For Now I Am Winter (Mercury Classics)
4. Karl Hyde – Edgeland (UMe)
5. Ludovico Einaudi – In a Time Lapse (Ponderosa Music & Art)
6. Olivier Libaux – Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age (Music for Music Lovers)
7. Peals – Walking Field (Thrill Jockey)
8. Seven Saturdays – Seven Saturdays (Lunada)
9. Still Corners – Strange Pleasures (Sub Pop)
10. William Tyler – Impossible Truth (Merge Records)
11. Wall – Shoestring (Big Picnic)
12. Jah Wobble & Marconi Union – Anomic (30 Hertz)
13. Axess – Aviator (Spheric)
14. Amatorski – Same Stars we Shared (Munic)
15. Stephen DeRuby – Awakening
16. Rena Jones – Echoes (Cartesian Binary Recordings)
17. Dido – Girl Who Got Away (RCA)
18. Allison Moyet – The Minutes (Metropolis)
19. Hooverphonic – The Night Before (Columbia Europe)
20. Rhian Sheehan – Stories from Elsewhere (Darla Records)
21. Syriana – The Road to Damascus (Real World)
22. Shaman’s Dream – Prana Pulse (Sounds True)
23. Sigur Ros – Kveikur (XL Recordings)
24. Ian Boddy – Liverdelphia (DiN)
25. John Parish – Screenplay (Thrill Jockey)

See the Best of Echoes 2013….So Far

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Underworld’s Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams in Echoes Podcast.

Hear Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams talk about Edgeland in Echoes Podcast.

In the 1980s, Rick Smith and Karl Hyde got together in a band called Freur and then formed the influential electronic dance group Underworld.  They’ve been musically inseparable until recently.  Rick Smith scored the soundtrack for Trance and Karl Hyde released his solo debut, working with Brian Eno collaborator, Leo Abrahams.   The album is called Edgeland.  I travel with Karl Hyde and Leo Abrahams to the outskirts of civilization.

Highlights:

Karl Hyde Painting

Karl Hyde on synaesthesia: I’m synaesthetic in as much as I see shapes and hear colors, and colors make sounds and buildings generate words.

Karl Hyde on decay:  I’m largely drawn to what we think of as decay and I find very beautiful…you know, the cracks in pavement or walls, weeds, discarded things, things that I see as markers left behind by people who are on journeys, things we need to find and to follow like a trail of breadcrumbs. I find all of these to be very beautiful in their rhythm, in their sequencing.

Leo Abrahams on improvised songs:  He [Karl Hyde] literally will turn up with notebooks full of lyrics that he’d written often on the train on the way down to my studio.  And he’d just say, “Play something.”

Hear more of Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams’ interview in the Echoes Podcast.

FurtherListening: Brian Eno’s Stormy Seas
Interview with Leo Abrahams

John Diliberto (((echoes)))

Sign up for Echoes CD of the Month Club. With the Echoes CD of the Month Club, you get great CDs like Rachel Zeffira’s The Deserters. Follow the link to the Echoes CD of the Month Club and see what you’ve been missing.

Now you can go Mobile with Echoes On-Line. Find out how you can listen to Echoes 24/7 wherever you are on your iPhone, iPad or Droid.

Join us on Facebook where you’ll get all the Echoes news so you won’t be left behind when Dead Can Dance appear on the show, Tangerine Dream tours or Brian Eno drops a new iPad album. Or Follow us on Twitter@echoesradio

Karl Hyde

Tonight on Echoes: Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams

Karl Hyde is one-half of the popular dance group called Underworld. But he’s launched a new conceptual CD called Edgeland that trades dance beats for introspective moods. Hyde and his collaborator, Leo Abrahams, talk about their electro-noir tales.

Here you can see the music video for Karl Hyde’s first single, “The Boy With The Jigsaw Puzzle Fingers,” from his 2013 album, Edgeland.

John Diliberto (((echoes)))

Sign up for Echoes CD of the Month Club. With the Echoes CD of the Month Club, you get great CDs like Rachel Zeffira’s The Deserters. Follow the link to the Echoes CD of the Month Club and see what you’ve been missing.

Now you can go Mobile with Echoes On-Line. Find out how you can listen to Echoes 24/7 wherever you are on your iPhone, iPad or Droid.

Join us on Facebook where you’ll get all the Echoes news so you won’t be left behind when Dead Can Dance appear on the show, Tangerine Dream tours or Brian Eno drops a new iPad album. Or Follow us on Twitter@echoesradio