Echoes Podcast: The Return of Ancient Future

Interview Podcast – Echoes · May 15, 2025 · 18m

Back to the Ancient Future: The Echoes Podcast

If I wanted to play you an example of world fusion, the first group I would go to is Ancient Future. Not only are they the definition of the term, they actually coined it back in 1978.

Matthew Montfort: Yeah. Yeah. I didn’t trademark the term or anything ’cause I wanted it to become a movement. It didn’t become as much of a movement as I would like, but it did kind of happen. So I’m happy about that.

Guitarist Matthew Montfort, is a co-founder of Ancient Future. They were active bringing world fusion to the world from 1979…