It’s the sound of tripped out trumpets. Horn players are going beyond the sound of Be-bop solos and classical concertos.
Playlists
Thursday, March 31st, 2016 – Echoes Program 1613D
Month: March 2016
Playlists
Wednesday, March 30th 2016-Echoes Program 1613C
Forty years ago, no one ever suspected that Brian Eno’s ambient works would make such beautiful vehicles for acoustic ensembles. Yet, Music for Airports and Apollo-Atmospheres and Soundtracks have been magnificently covered by acoustic ensembles, Bang on a Can All-Stars and Icebreaker respectively.
Reviews & Commentary
Hearing Aids for Big Ears 2016: Interviews with 7 Performers
We hear features from 7 of the performers at Big Ears 2015 including Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Max Richter, William Tyler, Silver Apples, and Bill Frisell.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for March 2016
The Echoes Top 25 for March includes the CD of the Month by Miranda Lee Richards, Vic Hennegan’s vocal turn on “Space & Shadows,” guitar slinger Tommy Emmanuel and our April CD of the Month, All India Radios “The Slow Light.”
Playlists
Tuesday, March 29th, 2016-Echoes Program 1613B
Miranda Lee Richards’s parents were 70s underground comic writers. Metallica’s Kirk Hammett gave her guitar lessons and she was discovered by The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
Playlists
Monday, March 28th, 2016-Echoes Program 1613A
There is no other instrumentalist like Ben Neill because he plays an instrument that no one else has, the mutantrumpet.
Playlists
Weekend, March 26 & 27, 2016-Echoes Program 1612A
Brooke Waggoner is a classically trained pianist with a degree in music but she went a different way, composing her own songs.
Interview Podcast
Big Ears Festival 2016 in the Echoes Podcast
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Big Ears is one of the most expansive, eclectic and challenging music festivals in the world. In downtown Knoxville Tennessee, musicians from around the world and across genres convene in concerts that test the limits of sound and music.
Playlists
Friday, March 25th, 2016-Echoes Program 1612E
Coming up on a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new ambient music by Tom Eaton, a producer and engineer, who goes to the other side of the glass for his album Abendromen. We’ll also hear from Vic Hennegan’s Space & Shadows.
Playlists
Thursday, March 24th, 2016-Echoes Program 1612D
Coming up on Echoes, the band Una mixes electronics, DJ scratching and lounge moods.