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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


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(Do you hear Echoes on the weekend?)

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.
Tierra Negra 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.
Ulrich Schnauss 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.
Steve Roach 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.
Robert Rich 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.
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Read a review of Ylang
David Helpling 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.
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Goldmund 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.
V.M. Bhatt 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.

Harold Budd 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.
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.
Michael Rother 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.
Atomic Skunk 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.
Portico Quartet 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.
Rob Martino 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.
Autumn 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.
Spyra 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.
Brian Eno

Monday, September 27th and the weekend of October 2nd
Icons Of Echoes: Brian Eno, Steve Roach, Patrick O’Hearn & Loreena McKennitt

Producer, composer and ambient artist--Brian Eno's influence on the music of Echoes and the music world in general is broad and far-reaching in the first half hour of today’s show. He was voted #1 of 20 Icons of Echoes.

Steve Roach 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
Patrick O'Hearn 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.
Loreena McKennitt 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.
Will Ackerman

Tuesday, September 28th
Icons Of Echoes: Will Ackerman, Tangerine Dream, George Winston & R. Carlos Nakai

All he did was found Windham Hill Records and jump-start the finger-style guitar renaissance. We look back at the career of guitarist Will Ackerman, #5 of 20 Icons of Echoes in the first half hour.

Tangerine Dream 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.
George Winston 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.
R. Carlos Nakai 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.
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Moby

Wednesday, September 29th
Icons Of Echoes: Moby, Dead Can Dance, Vangelis, Enya

It's number 9 of 20 Icons of Echoes when we profile Moby in the first half hour of today’s show. He looks back on his career from his techno-rave daze to his album Play and his latest, Wait for Me.
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Dead Can Dance 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.
Vangelis 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.
Enya 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.
Michael Hedges

Thursday, September 30th
Icons Of Echoes: Michael Hedges, Robert Rich, Afro Celt Sound System, & Mark Dwane

Michael Hedges died in 1997, but he remains the most revolutionary acoustic guitarist of the last 30 years. His records on Windham Hill remain the standard of captivating composition married to two-handed tapping and other innovative techniques. Michael appeared on Echoes several times. We look back on his words and music as we continue the countdown from his number 13 slot in the first half hour of today's show.

Robert Rich 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.
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Afro Celt Sound System 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.
Mark Dwane 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.
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Lisa Gerrard

Friday, October 1st
Icons Of Echoes: Lisa Gerrard, David Arkenstone, Ulrich Schnauss & Harold Budd

The voice of Dead Can Dance and Gladiator, Lisa Gerrard channels spirits in a supralingua dialect of the imagination in the first half hour. Through 25 years of interviews, we look back on the music of this iconic, and iconoclastic artist. Lisa Gerrard was voted number #17 of 20 Icons of Echoes.
Listen now
to tracks from Lisa’s 2007 Living Room Concert and an interview feature

David Arkenstone 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.
Ulrich Schnauss 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.
Harold Budd 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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