Kaya Project is the Ethno-Techo outlet for Seb Taylor. He’s just released a new album called Firedance that ups the rhythmic ante in a frenzy of darbuka grooves and seductive melodies.
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Monday July 28th-Echoes Program 1431A
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Weekend July 25th, 26th & 27th – Echoes Program 1430A
Yoed Nir was trained as a classical cellist in Israel, but then began playing with rock artists like Regina Spektor and Rufus Wainwright. On his solo albums, he forges an ambient chamber music of looping, multi-tracked and electronically processed cello to create his own 21st century orchestra. We’ll hear him play music from his album, The Next Dream, live on Echoes.
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Thursday July 24th-Echoes Program 1430D
Fin Greenall, who records as Fink, has transformed from a techno artist to a transcendental folkie. He has a new album out called Hard Believer. We’ll also hear from Saul Stokes and his new CD of homemade electronics, LFOUFO.
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Wednesday July 23rd-Echoes Program 1430C
Guitarist Mark McGuire is a modern rock guitarist who looks to 1970s progressive rock for his influences. The former Emeralds guitarist has created a work of epic proportions called Along the Way. He talks about his prog evolution.
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Tuesday July 22nd-Echoes Program 1430B
Muriel Anderson was a fingerstyle champion and a mentee of Chet Atkins and Les Paul. She creates a pastoral music drawing from folk, jazz and classical music playing acoustic six-string and harp guitar. She talks about her star-studded double CD, Nightlight Daylight with its illuminated cover.
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Monday July 21st-Echoes Program 1430A
Yoed Nir was trained as a classical cellist in Israel, but then began playing with rock artists like Regina Spektor and Rufus Wainwright. On his solo albums, he forges an ambient chamber music of looping, multi-tracked and electronically processed cello to create his own 21st century orchestra.
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Weekend July 18th, 19th & 20th-Echoes Program 1429A
Electronic provocateur William Orbit has crafted electronic hits for Madonna and Britney Spears but on his own he creates quirky, often profound electronic songs. We talk to the peripatetic artist about the joy of sound.
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Thursday July 17th-Echoes Program 1429D
New music from classical cellist Maya Beiser, who tackles music from Led Zeppelin and King Crimson on her album Uncovered. And something from the band Woman’s Hour and their dreampop Conversations.
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Wednesday July 16th-Echoes Program 1429C
Luna is Luna Lee. She’s a Korean musician who plays an instrument called the gayageum, a zither similar to the Japanese koto. Backed by a rock quartet, she plays music from her debut album, Luna that includes covers of Jimi Hendrix.
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Tuesday July 15th-Echoes Program 1429B
Ceiri Torjussen is a Welsh-born, classically-trained composer with jazz inclinations who has recorded an electronic ambient score for the movie Test. Torjussen’s score uses classic 70s and 80s synthesizer sounds to create a score that echoes Brian Eno, Philip Glass and Depeche Mode.