Podcast: Quiet Resonance and Big Ears Fest

Echoes Podcast: The Ministry of Quiet Resonance and Ashley Capps Opens Our Big Ears It’s Quiet Resonance on the next Echoes when we talk to Tony Pounders. As Quiet Resonance, he composes guitar orchestrations that range from ambient to pastoral to pure space. He also has another side to his life that might surprise you. He’s from Mississippi, a place with a deep musical heritage but not a fountain of ambient, electronic or new age music. If you love Jeff Pearce, Suss and Lanterna you may want to hear Quiet Resonance.  He made our year end Best of Echoes Top 30 in 2024. He’s just released a new album, Endless Beginnings. John Diliberto goes to church to talk to Quiet Resonance in the Echoes Podcast. QUIET RESONANCE PLAYLIST Quiet Resonance – Frostbite – Snow Blind Quiet Resonance – Hialeah – Flight Patterns Quiet Resonance – Days to Months Before – Behave Rush – A Farewell to Kings – A Farewell to Kings Quiet Resonance – Expanse – Someplace Else Quiet Resonance – Schooner – Coastal Def Leppard – Hysteria – Hysteria Quiet Resonance – Prospects for Wisdom – Prospects for Wisdom Quiet Resonance – Managua – Flight Patterns Quiet Resonance – Run – Duck Fat Fries Quiet Resonance – Duck Fat Fries – Duck Fat Fries Quiet Resonance – Falling Upward – Prospects for Wisdom It’s Big Ears on the next Echoes. We’ll talk to founder Ashley Capps about the Big Ears Festival 2024, which includes performances from Laurie Anderson, King Britt, Andre 3000, Laraaji, Roger Eno and about 200 more. This is a mammoth festival in Knoxville that ranges from singer-songwriters to avant-garde string quartets to electronic artists to free jazz and multiple intersections of all those things. And you can’t see all of the 200 or so acts so leave FOMO behind. Ashley Capps: That to me, John, is the secret of the festival. And it’s kind of an interesting metaphor for our world of distraction that we live in every day, where so many things are pulling you in so many different directions. But ultimately, satisfaction emerges from being in the moment and completely engaged in whatever situation you happen to find yourself in. If you’ve got big ears, join us in the Echoes Podcast. Read John Diliberto’s Path Through Big Ears Festival 2024 BIG EARS PLAYLIST Kronos Quartet – The Cusp of Magic – Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic King Britt – Beyond the Sun – Fhloston Paradigm Andre 3000 – I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a Rap Album But This is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time – New Blue Sun Andre 3000 – BuyPoloDisorder’s Daughter Wears a 3000 Shirt Embroidered – New Blue Sun King Brit – Back2Black – Back2Black Carl Craig – Return by Victoria Fleet Remix – Single Laurie Anderson – O Superman – Big Science Laurie Anderson – From the Air – Big Science Brad Mehldau – Paranoid Android – Largo Charles Lloyd – The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow -The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage – Maiden Voyage Herbie Hancock – Chameleon – Headhunters Herbie Hancock _Court and Spark – River: The Joni Letters Tord Gustavsen – The Gift – Extended Circle Henry Threadgill’s Very Very Circus – Hope A Hope – Sprit of Nuff . . .Nuff Suzi Analogue – Time To – Boom Secret Chiefs 3 – Vajra – Book M Adrianne Lenker – Cradle – abysskiss Charles lloyd – Booker’s Garden – The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow Colleen – The Crossin – The Tunnel and the Clearing