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Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble is among the premiere world music institutions, bringing together artists form traditional and classical worlds into a sometimes joyous, sometimes challenging fusion. Now they have a documentary film, The Music of Strangers.
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The Gloaming Experiments with Traditional Celtic Music in the Echoes Podcast.https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/EchoesPodcast-TheGloaming.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSListen to the interview with The Gloaming above, or download it from iTunes. The first Irish renaissance happened in the 1970s when Irish bands like Planxty, Dedanan and brought virtuosity and more expansive arrangements to Irish traditional music. Then…
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Maia Vidal was in a punk group called Kievan Rus, appeared in a series of Coca-Cola TV ads and could be found strumming an autoharp in Barcelona. All that has led to her beautiful album, You’re the Waves. She talks about her journey in the Echoes Podcast.
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John Heart Jackie makes a trippy psychedelic folk with country harmonies, ambient textures and electronica loops. They came into Echoes to play and talk about their music.
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Deborah Martin’s new album Eye of the Wizard is inspired by supernatural myths, but she used to be a country singer. She talks about going from country to cosmic in Echoes Podcast
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Kiasmos is the electronic project of ambient chamber music composer Ólafur Arnalds and fellow Icelander, Janus Rasmussen. They talk about their techno journey.
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Ane Brun’s music is always personal, touching on themes of love and life’s tribulations. But on her latest album, When I’m Free, Brun sings songs of empowerment.
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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.
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On her new album, Echoes of the Dreamtime, Miranda Lee Richards takes folk sounds and deploys them through delayed guitar and psychedelic hues.
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Big Ears is one of the most expansive, eclectic and challenging music festivals in the world. In downtown Knoxville Tennessee, musicians from around the world and across genres convene in concerts that test the limits of sound and music.