Wednesday, August 10th Echoes Program 1132C Ólafur Arnalds: Ambient Chamber Music from Iceland In the first hour, Icelandic composer and keyboardist Ólafur Arnalds talks about his ambient chamber music. In the second hour he sculpts a landscape for piano, electronics and string quartet that’s full of pensive moods and melodies that insinuate themselves in slow…
Month: August 2011
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Tuesday, August 9th-Echoes Program 1132B
Tuesday, August 9th Echoes Program 1132B Ryuichi Sakamoto: Romantic Piano & Joyful Noise Ryuichi Sakamoto is an Academy Award winning (The Last Emperor), critically-acclaimed and willfully eclectic Japanese composer and pianist. He has worked with David Bowie, David Byrne and many others. He also founded the Yellow Magic Orchestra and has released a string of…
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Monday, August 8th-Echoes Program 1132A
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20100331.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS Monday, August 8th and the weekend of August 13th Echoes Program 1132A Robert Rich: Synthesizers and Sound We start the week off with an Icon of Echoes. First, synthesist Robert Rich takes a seat in the Echoes chamber to identify music that influenced him as an artist…
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Conrad Schnizler Unplugs: R.I.P. 8/4/2011
Conrad Schnitzler, a founding member of both Tangerine Dream and Cluster has passed at the age of 74. Schnitzler was one of the true conceptualists of electronic music . He was a member of Tangerine Dream on on their debut album, Electronic Meditation and founded Kluster with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. They switched their…
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Friday, August 5th-Echoes Program 1122C
Friday, August 5th Echoes Program 1122C Music from Pat Metheny and Fionnuala Sherry Pat Metheny, the jazz guitarist has a solo CD of cover tunes that includes one of the first hits by Simon & Garfunkel. We also hear music from Fionnuala Sherry, the violinist from Secret Garden. Start Time Group Name Song Name Album…
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Thursday, August 4th-Echoes Program 1121D
Thursday, August 4th Echoes Program 1121D Music from Michael Whalen and Giorgio Li Calzi We have music by keyboardist Michael Whalen, the oft sentimental artist has a new download release called Sea of Tranquility. John Diliberto also brings us something by Italian trumpeter Giorgio Li Calzi from his album, Organum. Start Time Group Name Song…
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Wednesday, August 3rd-Echoes Program 1119D
Wednesday, August 3rd Echoes Program 1119D Music from Penguin Café and Steve Roach & Erik Wollo We take a seat at the Penguin Café. The band created by the late Simon Jeffes has been reborn with his son guiding the way. We’ll also hear a few tracks from Steve Roach and Erik Wollo‘s CD, The…
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Tuesday, August 2nd-Echoes Program 1122A
Tuesday, August 2nd Echoes Program 1122A Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name First Half Hour 0:01:00 William Eaton Ensemble Falcon’s Flight Passages: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 10 (v/a)* 0:06:00 Ian Boddy and Parallel Worlds Impressario Exit Strategy 0:13:28 Divine Matrix Whistle the Moon Invisible Landscapes 0:18:05 Mathias Eick Oslo Skala 0:23:26…
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Monday, August 1st-Echoes Program 1131A
Monday, August 1st and the weekend of August 6th Echoes Program 1131A Echoes August CD of the Month Atomic Skunk: Alchemy The name may stink but the music is pure immersive exotic ambience. Atomic Skunk is Rich Brodsky and his latest release is an intoxicating and melodic excursion through electronic modes, ambient moods and gamelan…
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Exotica Electronica from Atomic Skunk Echoes CD of the Month
Atomic Skunk turns music into Echoes CD of the Month Gold with Alchemy. You can hear a special show featuring Atomic Skunk’s Alchemy tonight on Echoes. Obvious jokes about the name aside, Rich Brodsky, recording as Atomic Skunk, has with each successive album been developing his own voice, one that merges influences from The Grateful…