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Monday February 7, 2000
DAVID HELPLING'S LUMINOUS WORLD
David Helpling plays guitar, but it usually doesn't sound like
one. Instead, he sculpts the atmospheres and melodies that have
marked his two solo albums, "Between Green and Blue" and
"Sleeping on the Edge of the World" (Spotted Peccary). We talk
to this self-taught composer about a music that charts the shades
in between.
Wednesday, February 9, 2000
THE STRANGE WORLD OF RYUICHI SAKAMOTO
Ryuichi Sakamoto is a musical enigma. He came to renown in the
1970s as part of the synthesizer band, Yellow Magic Orchestra,
and released a series of acclaimed solo albums in the 1980s. His
movie scores include"The Last Emperor" and "High Heels." In the
1990s, he's collaborated with Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson and David
Byrne, scored dissonant electro-acoustic symphonies and totally
kitschy pop. Now, Sakamoto has two new discs. One is orchestral
renderings of his film scores. The other is BTTB, or Back to the
Basics. It's a solo piano album, that includes a song that
started out as a commercial jingle and wound up number one in
Japan. Ryuichi Sakamoto talks about his strange world.
Thursday February 10, 2000
AN ECHOES LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH THE R. CARLOS NAKAI QUARTET
In a rare Echoes concert before an audience, we gathered the R.
Carlos Nakai Quartet for extensions of Native American music.
With Nakai on Native flutes, Will Clipman on drums and
percussion, bassist/keyboardist Amochip Dabney and keyboardist/
singer Mary Redhouse, the quartet enthralled a packed house of
listeners to Echoes affiliate station, WITF, in Harrisburg, PA.
We'll bring you the highlights in this special Echoes Living Room
Concert.
Friday February 11, 2000
ADIEMUS' GLOBAL CHOIRS OF THE IMAGINATION
Karl Jenkins has a perfect progressive music pedigree. A
classically trained composer, he spent most of the 1970s as part
of the brainiest of jazz fusion bands, the Soft Machine. After
he left them, however, he disappeared from contemporary music
until we noticed his name on the sleeve of "Songs of Sanctuary"
by Adiemus. It turns out that Adiemus is Karl Jenkins. Along
with singer Miriam Stockley, Jenkins' combination of world music
vocal techniques, Enya-like choral arrangements and classical
orchestrations has struck a chord around the world. They've now
recorded three albums and Miriam Stockley has a solo CD. They've
also just released a Best of collection (Omtown). We talked with
Adiemus back at the beginning when their sound was still fresh.
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ID#00-J07-000026 Monday, February 7, 2000 (Echoes Program 50C)
ARTIST SELECTION RECORDING
First Half Hour
Phil Thornton Voice at the end Solstice
of the Rainbow
Kentucky Standard Rain on Danby Flats Kentucky Skies
Band
Ash Dargan Spirit Dreams Spirit Dreams
Frank London Song of Praise Festival of Light 2*
Second Half Hour
Dean Evenson River of Dreams Healing Waters
Spacecraft White Crane Echoes Living Room
Concerts Vol. V*
Mike Oldfield Enigmatism Guitars
Mizuyo Komiya Tsugaru Overture Color
Al DiMeola Midwinter Night Winter Nights
Third Half Hour
Liz Story 17 Seconds to 17 Seconds to
Anywhere Anywhere
Mark Hunton Living Between two Annapurna: Towering Sky
Pat Thomi Lullaby for Ivy Fairy Tales
Paddy Glackin & The Green Fields Celtic Christmas: Peace
Micheal O'Domhnaill of Amerikay on Earth*
David Parsons The Return Shaman
Fourth Half Hour
DAVID HELPLING FEATURE
David Helpling Soul of a Child Sleeping on the Edge
of the World
Spool Tuesday Echoes Living Room
Concerts Vol. V*
Jim McGrath Eternal Twilight Passport
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ID#00-J07-00027 Tuesday, February 8, 2000 (Echoes Program 6G)
ARTIST SELECTION RECORDING
First Half Hour
Richard Bone Peripheral Nerve Ether Dome
A. Vollenweider Wolkenstein Echoes Living Room
Concerts Vol. V*
Juan Martin In the Sultan's The Alchemist
Palace
Bill Laswell Lost Roads Hear No Evil
Orchestral Suite
Second Half Hour
Andrew White The Plantarch of Guitarra Celtica
Albion
Arvo Part Spiegel im Spiegel Alina
Ekova Venus and One Heaven's Dust
Steve Stevens Feminova Flamenco-A-Go-Go
Steve Roach Twilight Heat Empetus
Annbjorg Lien January Baba Yaga
Third Half Hour
Michelle Sell Circle Round the Circle Round the Moon
Moon
N.Salerno- Vardar's Boat Salerno-Sonnenberg/Assad
Sonnenberg/Sergio
& Odair Assad
Coyote Oldman In Warm Velvet House Made of Dawn
Darkness
Joanne Shenandoah Tadodaho: Snakes Peacemaker's Journey
In his Hair
Tan Don Reflection 2000 Today
Jim McGrath Eternal Twilight Passport
Fourth Half Hour
Michael Mandrell Ancient Art of The Great Spiral Dance
Soul Travel
Omar Faruk Tekbilek Araya One Truth
Mary Jane Lamond Tonight my Step Lan Duil
Is Heavy
Vidna Obmana/ Closing Theme True Stories
Jeff Pearce
Ketil Bjornstad/ The River The River
David Darling
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ID#00-J07-00028 Wednesday, February 9, 2000 (Echoes Program 6H)
ARTIST SELECTION RECORDING
First Half Hour
Mark Isham No Remembering Body Shots
Mizuyo Komiya Tsugaru Overture Color
Mark Hunton Annapurna the Annapurna: The Towering
Towering Sky Sky
Joshua Bell & If I Knew Short Trip Home
Edgar Meyer
Monk Improvisation Blink
Second Half Hour
FEATURE: THE STRANGE WORLD OF RYUICHI SAKAMOTO
Riuichi Sakamoto Energy Flow BTTB
Paul Halley Shores of Ironbound Triptych
Libera Mysterium Libera
Bartz Galileo's Garden Build your own Planet
Kentucky Standard Lost Hearts Kentucky Skies
Band
Third Half Hour
Vicki Richards Naima Temple Dwellers
Ian Melrose The Music of Spey Between the Sighs
Thomas Otten Close to Silence Close to Silence
Midori Forgotten Temple Bali
Fourth Half Hour
A. Vollenweider Wolkenstein Echoes Living Room
Concerts Vol. V*
Vas The Promise Offerings
Michael Hedges Dream Beach Torched
Jalan Jalan Firefly Sanctuary Bali
Lisa Gerrard The Human Game Duality
Frank van Bogaert Earth Geographic
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ID#00-J07-00029 Thursday, February 10, 2000 (Echoes Program 6I)
ARTIST SELECTION RECORDING
First Half Hour
Ken Bonfield / For a Friend Kadotome
Joe Ebel
Annbjorg Lien Astra Baba Yaga
Meg Bowles Shapeshifter From the Dark Earth
Mary Jane Lamond Cattle on the Hill Lan Duil
Mike Oldfield From the Ashes Guitars
Soweto String Kgotso (Tranquility) Millennia
Quartet
Second Half Hour
LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH THE R. CARLOS NAKAI QUARTET
RECORDED AT THE ALLEN THEATER IN ANNVILLE, PA
FOR WITF-FM HARRISBURG
Third Half Hour
Ulli Certainly Maybe Ageless Guitar Solos
Arvo Part Fur Alina Alina
Damian Dragici Gypsy Heart Gypsy Journey
Jim Matheos The Language of Away with Words
Silence
George Winston Plains Plains
Fourth Half Hour
Scott Huckabay Neptune's Forest Echoes Living Room
Concerts Vol. V*
David Helpling Divine Whisper Sleeping on the Edge of
The World
Afro Celt Sound Release Volume II: Release
System
Julia Haines Water Thunder/Perfect Mind
Mamadou Diabate Tunga Tunga
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ID#00-J07-00030 Friday, February 11, 2000 (Echoes Program 6J)
ARTIST SELECTION RECORDING
First Half Hour
Shastro Owl's Dream Shambala
Kaouding Cissoko Anna Kora Revolution
Steve Stevens Cinecitta Flamenco-A-Go-Go
Joanne Shenandoah The Eagle Watches Peacemaker's Journey
Enigma Traces The Screen Behind the
Mirror
Second Half Hour
Trey Gunn Gate of Dreams The Joy of Molybdenum
Ekova Starlight in Daden Heaven's Dust
Steve Roach Resolution Point Convergent Evolution*
Andrew White Through Cumbrian Guitarra Celtica
Hills
Third Half Hour
Path Metheny A Map of the World A Map of the World
Michael Nyman The Promise The Piano
Thomas Otten Underdown Aperture Close to Silence
Christina Tourin Star of County Down The Emerald Harp
Robert Sequoia Streams & Rivers Essence of Life
Fourth Half Hour
FEATURE: ADIEMUS-GLOBAL CHOIRS OF THE IMAGINATION
Adiemus Adiemus The Best of Adiemus
Michael Spriggs Laxey's Wheel Without Words
Stephen Scott Kiukiu, Departing Vikings of the Sunrise
Place of Spirits
Geoff Keezer Let Down/HypnoGong Zero One
Sheila Chandra Quiet 3 Quiet
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