The Big Ears Festival is a monstrous affair of cutting edge music. This year saw some 150 artists performing including Patti Smith, John Zorn, Jason Moran and more. Here’s a random account.
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Notes from Big Ears Festival 2022 Pt.1
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Echoes of the Season
Turn on the chill with Echoes of the Season! Dial up Echoes for 10 hours of special concerts and seasonal programming during Christmas week from December 20th – December 24th, 2021.
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Kitaro & Hiroki Okano Live Video in Japan
Kitaro is a giant in modern music for his exotic electronic works bridging traditional and future sounds. Hiroki Okano merges nature and music together. They play live in new video.
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Review: Philip Glass Opera Circus Days and Nights
Iconic composer Philip Glass stages new opera based on the poetry of Robert Lax called Circus Days and Nights staged with the Cirkus Cirkör livestreamed from Malmos Opera.
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Malcolm Cecil of Tonto’s Expanding Head Band R.I.P
Malcolm Cecil was an electronic pioneer whose duo, Tonto’s Expanding Head Band, planted the seeds of contemporary electornic music with the album Zero Time in 1971. He leaves at age 84.
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Chick Corea Gone at 79: A Reflection
Chick Corea was a jazz pianist, a fusion pioneer, a creator of joyful music and pyrotechnic flights from Miles Davis to Return to Forever and beyond. He left the planet on February 9th.
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Echoes Year End Fund Drive 2020. Start 2021 Right!
Help us make 2020 suck less! Give now to the year-end Echoes Fund Drive so we can close our budget gap. It’s not a gift for us. It’s a gift for your ears & soul
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Holiday Streams for your Christmas Chill
Echoes Christmas streams are up for you to enjoy with non-stop, non-narrated seasonal streams. Just the music to make your holiday serene and chill. It’s all up now.
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Harold Budd R.I.P: Leaving the Planet at 84
Harold Budd 1936-2020t: Rest in BeautyAmbient composer and pianist Harold Budd has left the planet, Departing on December 7th, 2020 at the age of 84. And he hated being called an ambient composer as much as being called a New Age one. Harold Budd was on Echoes about a dozen times, playing live at least…
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Thank you for supporting our Fall Fund Drive!
We didn’t quite make it to our goal, but thanks to you, this was still our most successful listener fund drive ever! We appreciate every one who gave & let us know what Echoes means to them.