She’s the daughter of Ravi Shankar, the sister of Norah Jones and the leading sitarist in the world. Anoushka Shankar comes in with her ensemble of percussion, shenai and bass to perform music from her album of hybrid Indian sounds, Land of Gold.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brooke Waggoner is a classically trained pianist with a degree in music but she went a different way, composing her own songs.
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.
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.
We’ll listen to one of the seminal albums of 70s electronic music, Klaus Schulze’s 1976 album, Moondawn.
Miranda Lee Richards has played with the Brian Jonestown Massacre and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.