Sound Unbound: Big Ears Festival Preview with Ashley Capps in Echoes Podcast

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In the echoes Podcast a preview of the Big Ears Festival 2023. Founder Ashley Capps had his musical epiphany with The Mothers of Invention and their second album, Absolutely Free which, like all early albums from Frank  Zappa, had the Edgar Varese quote, “The modern day composer refuses to die.”  Capps took that to heart with his musical exploration and Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN.   He tells us about some highlights of the line-up that includes John Zorn, Morton Subotnick, Charles Lloyd, Bill Frisell and Ibeyi and more. Open your ears wide on Echoes from PRX.

Big Ears Festival 2023 Feature Playlist

Gyan Riley – High Tide – Shelter in Space Oneohtrix Point Never – Cross Talk – Magic Oneohtrix Point Never Catarina Barbieri – At Your Gamut – Spirit Exit Edgar Varese – Déserts – Pierre Boulez: Carter: Symphony of 3 Orchestras/Varese: Déserts, Equatorial, Hyperprism Mothers of Invention – Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue – Weasels Ripped My Flesh Ibeyi – Sangoma – Spell 31 John Zorn – Mo’ed – Bar Kokhba John Zorn – Acanthopis Antarcticus – John Zorn’s Cobra Live at the Knitting Factory Painkiller – Morning of Balachaturdasi – Execution Ground Bill Frisell – Lookout for Hope – Four Charles Lloyd – Blood Count – Chapel: Trio Sun Ra Arkestra – Ra #2 – Live at Babylon Morton Subotnick – Touch Pt.1 – Touch/Jacob’s Room King Britt – Beyond the Sun – Fhloston Paradigm Kate NV – Marafon – Room for the Moon Oneohtrix Point Never – No Nightmares – Magic Oneohtrix Point Never Carl Stone – Umi – We Jazz Works, Vol.2