Surprising sets from a lost elder statesman and a band that should be much bigger, The Enid & The Pineapple Thief. They were only the third act on the bill, but The Pineapple Thief stole the day for me with the most atypical set of NEARfest 2010. No extended guitar solos, keyboard orchestrations or complex…
Month: June 2010
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The Ghost of Gentle Giant Haunts NEARfest 2010
Three Friends, Iona, Forgas Band Phenomena and Astra Supercharge Saturday’s NEARfest. It was a day of nostalgic memories, faithful recreations, and technical ferocity on the second day of NEARfest 2010 Three Friends is essentially a reconstituted Gentle Giant, the venerable 70s progressive rock band who played some of the most complex music of the era.…
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Monday, June 21st-Echoes Program 1025A
Monday, June 21st Echoes Program 1025A An Echoes Summer Solstice: Lunar Symphonies and Seasonal Shifts Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 General Fuzz Summer Cool Aberrations 0:06:00 Tierra Negra and Muriel Anderson Summer Morning Rain New World Flamenco 0:09:44 Michael Hedges Dream Beach Summer Solstice (v/a)* 0:13:23 All India…
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Nearfest Night One: Steve Hackett & Riverside.
Nearfest 2010 is underway, and it started out spanning generations with a musician who started his career in 1970 and a band who started in 2002 . Riverside is a Polish band that mixes elements of progressive rock, heavy metal and a touch of screamo in a sound that had me floored when they played…
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Friday, June 18th-Echoes Program 1015A
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Thursday, June 17th-Echoes Program 1024D
Thursday, June 17th Echoes Program 1024D Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Aurah Etherea Borealis Etherea Borealis 0:06:00 The Album Leaf Within Dreams A Chorus of Storytellers 0:10:35 Sysyphe Legend of Winter Running Up That Hill 0:18:09 Solas A Tune for Roan The Turning Tide 0:22:41 Nakai/Eaton/Clipman Horses in…
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Five Essential Robert Rich CDs Plus Two.
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Wednesday, June 16th-Echoes Program 1024C
Wednesday, June 16th Echoes Program 1024C Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Gooding Zone 314 Songs for Grey Days 0:06:00 David Hoffman Evening Meditation Calmness of Spirit 0:12:37 Eitan Reiter Eggplant Week Places I Miss That I Haven’t Been To 0:19:48 Anna Schaad Mermaid Dream Within a Dream 0:24:58…
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Tuesday, June 15th-Echoes Program 1024B
Tuesday, June 15th Echoes Program 1024B Echoes Remixed Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Nalepa Rhodes Racer (Rena Jones Remix) Flatlands (Remixes) 0:06:00 Bluetech Big Medicine (Mari Boine) Love Songs to the Source 0:12:51 Bob Holroyd Kosovo (Bardo State) Re: Told 0:17:47 Moby Wait for Me (Christopher Berg remix) …
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Monday, June 14th-Echoes Program 1024A
Monday, June 14th Echoes Program 1024A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 Fernwood August Sangita 0:06:00 Antoine DuFour To Run in a Dream Convergences 0:10:07 Synaesthesia A Parlaiment of Rooks Synaesthesia 0:17:00 Rho Laserfaced Glass Memories 0:24:27 Bruce Kaphan Loops for Larry Hybrid 0:29:00 break Second Half Hour 0:30:00…