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Tuesday 03/28/06
ROBERT RICH: ANALOG DAZE
Techno-tribal pioneer returns to analog space music roots

Robert Rich takes retro-space music and points it back to the future on a new CD called ELECTRIC LADDER. Mixing analog synthesizers, lap steel guitar and some minimalist horn charts by Paul Hanson, Robert Rich takes the classic 70s space music sound and filters it through 21st century sensibilities. In his California studio, Robert Rich talks about analog music in a digital world.View Playlist

Wednesday 03/29
ECHOES COVERS
Instrumental reconstructions of rock tunes old and new

It’s the music of Elliot Smith, Dick Dale and Toto on Echoes. We haven’t changed format, it’s the Echoes Covers show. We’ll experience mostly instrumental recreations of music you’ve probably heard before, but not like this. View Playlist

Thursday 03/30/2006
GRETCHEN YANOVER: THE MODERN DAY CELLIST IS LOOPED
Classical cellist turns alterna-rocker and ambient composer

Gretchen Yanover is from a new generation of classical musicians. By day, she's a member of the Northwest Sinfonietta, a chamber orchestra in Seattle. By night, she plays with alterna-rockers Trwst, and in her quieter moments she sits with a looping device creating her own minimalist cello adagios. She recently released her debut CD, BOW AND CELLO. In her Seattle home, Gretchen Yanover tells how playing Bach cello pieces in a local café turned into a solo career.View Playlist

Friday 03/31/2006
BLUETECH: DROPPED, STIRRED AND CHILLED ELECTRONICA
Electronic artist follows the Sines and drops into Singularities

Bluetech is a Bay Area laptop composer whose latest album, Sines and Singularities (Aleph-Zero Records) is a delirious ascent into electro-ambient architecture, full of fractured melodies and kinetic, dub-inflected rhythms. In a San Francisco Victorian home that could stand in for the 60's psychedelic abodes of the Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead, Bluetech talks about a new music for mind expansion that's even more plugged in. View Playlist

Playlists for previous weeks can be found at our Playlists Archive.

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