Earth Day Dreaming is a seven-hour instrumental soundscape inspired by the natural world. We’ll hear environmental sounds turned into music, and compositions that evoke those natural scenes.
Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes – Earth Day Dreaming
Playlists
Friday April 22nd, 2016-Echoes Program 1616E
On this Earth Day, we create a soundscape born from the planet, inspired by the riches of this earth that we seem so intent on destroying.
Interview Podcast
John Luther Adams in the Echoes Podcast
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John Luther Adams talks about his award-winning composition, Become Ocean, and his decision to leave Alaska in the Echoes Podcast.
Playlists
Thursday, April 21st, 2016-Echoes Program 1616D
Coming up on Echoes we’ll hear a song by Metallica. It won’t be them playing it, but the band of sisters known as SHEL.
Playlists
Wednesday, April 20th, 2016-Echoes Program 1616C
Coming up on Echoes, it’s new music by Explosions in the Sky. The instrumental rock band who came to renown with their score to Friday Night Lights have a new CD of guitar explorations called The Wilderness.
Playlists
Tuesday, April 19th, 2016-Echoes Program 1616B
Brooke Waggoner is a classically trained pianist with a degree in music but she went a different way, composing her own songs.
Playlists
Monday, April 18th, 2016-Echoes Program 1616A
Earth Day takes place on Friday, April 22. In this special edition of Echoes, we explore environmental music including an interview with John Luther Adams and a performance by Kenji Williams’ Bella Gaia.
Playlists
Weekend, April 16 & 17, 2016-Echoes Program 1615A
The name Great American Canyon Band sounds like it belongs to a country act and there is certainly a bit of Nashville in the music made by Baltimore natives Paul and Krystal Masson.
Reviews & Commentary
Klaus Schulze: Moondawn at 40
Klaus Schulze is an icon of electronic music, exploring a sound that still resonates well after his first recordings in the early 1970s. Moondawn is one of those recordings celebrating its 40th Anniversary.
Playlists
Friday, April 15th, 2016-Echoes Program 1615E
We’ll listen to one of the seminal albums of 70s electronic music, Klaus Schulze’s 1976 album, Moondawn.