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