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INTERVIEWS, CONCERTS AND MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS
COMING UP ON ECHOES
Will Ackerman, Afro Celt Sound System, Muriel Anderson, David Arkenstone, Atomic Skunk, V. M. Bhatt & Matt Malley, Harold Budd, Dead Can Dance, Mark Dwane, Brian Eno, Enya, Lisa Gerrard, Goldmund, Michael Hedges, David Helpling, Jon Jenkins, Kaki King, Loreena McKennitt, Moby, R. Carlos Nakai, Patrick O’Hearn, Portico Quartet, Rob Martino, Robert Rich, Steve Roach, Michael Rother, Ulrich Schnauss, Wolfram Spyra, Tangerine Dream, Tierra Negra, Vangelis, George Winston
SPECIAL ECHOES PROGRAMS THIS MONTH
Ulrich Schnauss-An Icon of Echoes: Wednesday, Sept. 1st
Harold Budd-An Icon of Echoes: Thursday, September 9th
Echoes Remixed: Friday, September 10th
Autumnal Equinox: Thursday, September 23rd
A Week of 20 Icons of Echoes
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Echoes last year, listeners voted for their 20 Icons of Echoes. Throughout the past twelve months they've been hearing profiles of each of these musicians drawn from our deep archives. In this special week, we'll feature all 20 of our Icons of Echoes, one in each half hour of the show.
Monday, September 27th: Brian Eno, Steve Roach, Patrick O’Hearn and Loreena McKennitt
Tuesday, September 28th: Will Ackerman, Tangerine Dream, George Winston and R. Carlos Nakai
Wednesday September 29th: Moby, Dead Can Dance, Vangelis and Enya
Thursday, September 30th: Michael Hedges, Robert Rich, Afro Celt Sound System, and Mark Dwane
Friday, October 1st: Lisa Gerrard, David Arkenstone, Ulrich Schnauss and Harold Budd
(Do you hear Echoes on the weekend?)
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Monday, August 30th and the weekend of Sept. 4th Living Room Concert: Rob Martino Like reggae and soccer, the Chapman Stick was supposed to be the next big thing. It never took off, but the instrument has many devotees, among them, Rob Martino who has just released an album of solo Chapman Stick songs called One Cloud. He plays his finger tapping music live on Echoes.    |
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Tuesday, August 31st Interview: Tierra Negra & Muriel Anderson Tierra Negra is a Flamenco guitar duo from Germany. They team up with American harp guitarist Muriel Anderson to play an intricate brand of world string music on their CD, New World Flamenco. We gather the trio to talk about guitar music from Andalusia to Nashville. |
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Wednesday, September 1st Ulrich Schnauss: An Icon of Echoes Ulrich Schnauss crafts an evocative, melodic brand of downtempo electronica that has seduced and influenced a generation of musicians. Echoes listeners voted him #19 of 20 Icons of Echoes. We look back on a musician creating landscapes of escape. |
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Thursday, September 2nd Music from Steve Roach & Kaki King Steve Roach brings us techno tribal moods from his collaboration with Byron Metcalf & Dashmesh Khalsa on Dream Tracker. And we'll hear finger-style guitarist Kaki King going very electric on her latest called Junior. |
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Friday, September 3rd Living Room Concert: Robert Rich It's a journey into a surreal landscape when we hear Robert Rich playing live on Echoes. Robert generates an electronic jungle for his swirling flute and lap steel guitar melodies with music from his album, Ylang. Listen to an Echo Location Read a review of Ylang |
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Monday, September 6th and the weekend of Sept. 11th Echoes September CD of the Month David Helpling & Jon Jenkins: The Crossing Their album, Treasure, was an Echoes CD of the Month in 2007. Three yeas later, David Helpling and Jon Jenkins return with another disc of moody atmospheres that morph like clouds and intoxicating melodies played on keyboards, guitars and instruments of the imagination. It's called The Crossing and it's our September CD of the Month. Join the CD Club |
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Tuesday, September 7th Interview: Goldmund He plays piano like it's barely there. Makes ambient music that whispers and has an electronica duo that seduces. His name is Keith Kenniff, but he records as Goldmund, Helios and Mint Julep. He talks about his fragile music and the new Goldmund album, Famous Places. |
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Wednesday, September 8th Music from V.M. Bhatt & Matt Malley Matt Malley, the bass player from Counting Crows, collaborates with Indian musician V.M. Bhatt in an album of ambient ragas called Sleepless Nights. |
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Thursday, September 9th Harold Budd: An Icon of Echoes Producer Daniel Lanois says that Harold Budd plays like feathers on the piano. For over four decades, this composer has been charting a subtle course of ambient chamber music. We'll look back on his music, drawing from 30 years of interviews in an ambient portrait of our 20th Icon of Echoes. |
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Friday, September 10th Echoes Remixed We toss the show into a computer and emerge with Echoes Remixed. John Diliberto is your remix master as we hear songs from across the Echoes soundscape and beyond, reconfigured into ambient dreamscapes and downtempo moods. |
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Monday, September 13th and the weekend of Sept. 18th Interview: Michael Rother No one heard of them 40 years ago, but the 1970s German bands Neu! and Harmonia are now cited in every other review of hip alt-rock bands. We talk to a founder of those groups, guitarist Michael Rother, who is still creating brilliant music on his own, and who recently toured the U.S. |
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Friday, September 17th Interview: Atomic Skunk Obvious jokes aside, Atomic Skunk is the recording persona of Rich Brodsky. He talks about coming from a Hollywood film family and his guitar driven electronic atmospheres that are inspired by the Grateful Dead as much as The Orb. |
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Monday, September 20th and the weekend of Sept. 25th Interview: Portico Quartet You can't turn around without hearing the ringing sound of a Hang drum, but the English group called Portico Quartet takes this exotic instrument and brings it into a world of modal jazz improvisations. We'll talk with this chamber jazz ensemble. |
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Tuesday, September 21st Interview: Rob Martino With its twelve strings, it looks like a guitar fretboard on steroids, but the Chapman Stick, invented by Emmett Chapman 40 years ago, is an instrument of subtle possibilities and intricate music. And after hearing Rob Martino, you'll wonder why everyone isn't playing it. We talk to Martino about creating new music for the Chapman Stick. |
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Thursday, September 23rd An Echoes Autumnal Equinox As summer turns into fall and looks towards winter, we have a soundscape of autumnal moods and melancholy ambiences to celebrate the time of harvest and the turn towards colder and darker times. |
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Friday, September 24th Living Room Concert: Spyra The third generation of German space musicians is here and Wolfram Spyra is one of them, adapting 70s style analog sequencer music to modern laptop compositions. Spyra comes to the Echoes Living Room and plays live. |
| A Week of 20 Icons of Echoes To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Echoes last year, listeners voted for their 20 Icons of Echoes. Throughout the past twelve months they've been hearing profiles of each of these musicians drawn from our deep archives. In this special week, we'll feature all 20 of our Icons of Echoes, one in each half hour of the show. |
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Monday, September 27th and the weekend of October 2nd |
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Listeners voted Steve Roach #2 of 20 Icons of Echoes. During the second half hour, we'll look back at one of the most influential electronic artists of the last 30 years from Structures from Silence to Dreamtime Return and beyond |
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We continue our journey through 20 Icons of Echoes in the third half hour with Patrick O'Hearn who was voted #3, a composer, keyboardist and bassist who has been making organically beautiful instrumental music since his 1985 debut, Ancient Dreams. |
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We survey the music of Canadian singer-songwriter Loreena McKennitt, a musician who has moved from folky Celtic harp music to global extravaganzas in the final half hour. She was voted #4 of 20 Icons of Echoes. |
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Tuesday, September 28th |
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Bands are still borrowing from the sounds created by Tangerine Dream in the 1970s in the second half hour. We look back on over 40 years of space music from the German electronic band, Tangerine Dream, voted #6 of 20 Icons of Echoes. |
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Pianist George Winston took Windham Hill Records into the stratosphere and launched a wave of solo piano imitators. Yet few have matched the artistry and longevity of this idiosyncratic pianist who Echoes listeners voted #7 of 20 Icons of Echoes. We look back on 20 years of Echoes with George Winston in the third half hour. |
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R. Carlos Nakai has played and been interviewed on Echoes more than any other artist. He's take the Native American flute off the reservation and into spaces no one could imagine. We look back on his influential career in the last half hour as he is #8 of 20 Icons of Echoes. Listen to an Echo Location |
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Wednesday, September 29th |
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Ecstatic vocals have been a major part of Echoes and no one has brought us more ecstacy than Lisa Gerrard and Dead Can Dance. Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry filtered sounds and spirits from the antiquity and merged them into a ritualistic music. We look back at this influential band, who listeners voted #10 of 20 Icons of Echoes in the second half hour. |
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Vangelis, the Greek synthesist has been recording for over four decades, creating symphonic electronic orchestrations and dark ambient expanses. His work includes the films Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner and epic albums like Albedo 0.39 and Oceanic. As #11 of 20 Icons of Echoes, we hear the Greek electronic giant talk about his career in the third half hour. |
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With her heavenly soprano, multi-tracked choirs, and Celtic melodies, Enya has transcended her folk roots with a sound that has gained universal acclaim. We look back on the career of Enya with interviews and music in the final half hour. She was voted #12 of 20 Icons of Echoes. |
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Thursday, September 30th |
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We look back on the career of electronic composer Robert Rich, whose techno-tribal music and ambient dreamscapes reflect the state of the art in organic electronic music. He was voted #14 of 20 Icons of Echoes in the second half hour. Listen to an Echo Location |
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Afro Celt Sound System has been one of the defining sounds of Echoes with their fusion of African, Eastern, and Irish music, coupled with electronic grooves and moods. In the third half hour, we look back at the energy-charged world fusion of this band who are #15 of 20 Icons of Echoes. |
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In the final half hour of today’s show, one of the legends of indie-space music, Mark Dwane has been a fixture on Echoes since his first album, 1991'sAngels, Aliens and Archetypes. He's a space musician with an epic sense of melody and orchestral designs, almost all of which are rendered on the strings of his guitars and guitar synthesizer. His expansive, cinematic albums often have mythic and sci-fi themes, like Other Worlds, The Monuments of Mars, and The Atlantis Factor. Mark Dwane was voted number 16 of 20 Icons of Echoes. Listen to an Echo Location |
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Friday, October 1st |
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In the 1990s, David Arkenstone turned from rocker to contemporary instrumentalist, composing epic works for keyboards, guitar and flute, all of which he played. We look at the journey of an artist with a penchant for musical odysseys in the second half hour. He was voted #18 of 20 Icons of Echoes. |
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Ulrich Schnauss crafts an evocative, melodic brand of downtempo electronica that has seduced and influenced a generation of musicians. Echoes listeners voted him #19 of 20 Icons of Echoes. We look back on a musician creating landscapes of escape in the third half hour. |
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Producer Daniel Lanois says that Harold Budd plays like feathers on the piano. For over four decades, this composer has been charting a subtle course of ambient chamber music. We'll look back on his music in the final half hour, drawing from 30 years of interviews in an ambient portrait of our 20th Icon of Echoes. Listen to an Echo Location |
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