Pure Bathing Culture in Echoes Podcast

Portland’s Pure Bathing Culture Talks Art-Rock, Jazz and Dream-pop in the Echoes Podcast.

Whatever you call them, don’t call them Dream Pop.   But if you do, you’ll hear a sound to which most dream pop bands could aspire with Pure Bathing Culture.  They are a duo of singer and keyboardist Sarah Versprille and guitarist Daniel Hindman who emerged out of the alt-folk group, Vetiver.  On their debut album, Moon Tides they merge 60s girl group harmonies with 80s electro-pop in a music of deliriously joyful melodies, even when they’re singing about break-ups.

Sarah Versprille of Pure Bathing Culture on Echoes

You can’t hear the voices of most dream pop singers two  inches beyond the microphone, but Versprille has a more powerful voice because she listened to Ella Fitzgerald as much as Elizabeth Frazer. Hindman elicits a gorgeous tone from his processed electric guitar and cites a fairly obscure influence, Vini Reilly and The Durutti Column.  (I’m still waiting for the Vini Reilly revival foretold by God in 24 Hour Party People.). Get in on the ground floor and find out about Pure Bathing Culture when they talk about their music in Echoes Podcast

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Pure Bathing Culture Interview on Echoes.

Portland’s Pure Bathing Culture Talks Art-Rock, Jazz and Dream-pop on Echoes Tonight.

Whatever you call them, don’t call them Dream Pop.   But if you do, you’ll hear a sound to which most dream pop bands could aspire with Pure Bathing Culture.  They are a duo of singer and keyboardist Sarah Versprille and guitarist Daniel Hindman who emerged out of the alt-folk group, Vetiver.  On their debut album, Moon Tides they merge 60s girl group harmonies with 80s electro-pop in a music of deliriously joyful melodies, even when they’re singing about break-ups.

Sarah Versprille of Pure Bathing Culture on Echoes

You can’t hear the voices of most dream pop singers two  inches beyond the microphone, but Versprille has a more powerful voice because she listened to Ella Fitzgerald as much as Elizabeth Frazer. Hindman elicits a gorgeous tone from his processed electric guitar and cites a fairly obscure influence, Vini Reilly and The Durutti Column.  (I’m still waiting for the Vini Reilly revival foretold by God in 24 Hour Party People.). Get in on the ground floor and find out about Pure Bathing Culture when they talk about their music tonight on Echoes.

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ECHOES CD OF THE MONTH CLUB SPECIAL

New members of the Echoes CD of the Month Club will get Moby’s Innocents album, our November CD of the Month and a BONUS CD of Bombay Dub Orchestra’s Tales from the Grand Bazaar.  You’ll get great CDs and help support Echoes at the same time.  You’ll also get the new Echoes CD, Transmissions: The Echoes Living Room Concerts V19, You can do it all right here.

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.

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Pure Bathing Culture Live on Echoes

Daniel Hindman & Sarah Vesprille of Pure Bathing Culture live on Echoes.

Portland’s Pure Bathing Culture Plays Live on Echoes Tonight.

Tonight on Echoes, it’s dream pop from Portland when we hear Pure Bathing Culture playing live.  The band is fronted by singer and keyboardist Sarah Versprille and guitarist Daniel Hindman.  On their album, Moon Tides they merge 60s girl group harmonies with 80s electro-pop in a music of deliriously joyful melodies, even when they’re singing about break-ups.  Versprille has a more powerful voice than most dreampop singers who you can’t hear two  inches beyond the microphone and Hindman elicits a gorgeous tone from his processed electric guitar.  Get in the tub tonight with Pure Bathing Culture live on Echoes.

John Diliberto (((echoes)))

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Echoes in Video-Hillage & Foxx

Some really great videos have been coming our way in the last two days.

First up, Steve Hillage, a member of the psychedelic progressive band, Gong, and a prolific solo artist in various guises including this one as System 7.  I love Hillage’s electronic music but when he plays live, I like him better with a guitar in his hands and a band and he’s found a great one here in Rovo, a Japanese psychedelic progressive jam-band.  With some driving dual drummer grooves, violin and Miquette Giraudy’s electronics, they fly on this piece from the forthcoming album, Phoenix Rising.  But as good as that is, the visuals on this track, “Hinotori”  are their equal with a mix of live performance interpolated with some gorgeous Japanese animation based on images from the Manga animation pioneer Osamu Tezuka and his Phoenix series.   The entire project is a merging of live performance and programmed electronics.

The other video is by John Foxx, formerly the lead singer of Ultravox, but now a solo artist resolutely devoted to electronic pop with occasional forays into ambient music.  He has a new collaboration with house producer Jori Hilkkonen called European Splendour, that’s coming out in Europe on August 19.  Ahead of it, they’ve released a beautiful video by Gabriel Pulecio and Lorena Kraus of light imagery, but with an antique feel for the song, “Evangeline.”  I’m not sure what the video has to do with it, but it fits the brooding, seductive song of swampy, reverse rhythms and Foxx’s filtered vocals.

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Think of the great artists you love on Echoes. Think of the informative interviews and exclusive live performances. Then, think of a world without Echoes. You can make sure that never happens by becoming a member of the Echoes Sound Circle.

Echoes is a non-profit 501(c3) organization just like your local public radio station. And all donations are tax deductible. You can support Echoes with a monthly donation that will barely disturb your credit card.

Join the Echoes Sound Circle and keep the soundscapes of Echoes flowing!