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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091125.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAblaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze at the Crossroads of Griot and Jazz You can hear an audio version of this blog with music. The African kora is an instrument that gently seduces you with it’s sound. Made from a large calabash gourd cut in half, it’s covered in…
Still: Echoes, the Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 15 has arrived. Like all our CDs it’s a perfect Echoes blend of music from pure acoustic works to the extremes of electronic music, with ambient chamber music nestled next to deep space explorations. The album builds in an arc from Jesse Cook’s sweet “Rain,” with some…
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090916.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSClassical string player Rena Jones, puts cello and violin into laptop generated landscapes. You can hear an audio version of this blog with Rena Jones’ music, here. If you’re a gamer, you’ve probably heard some of Rena Jone’s music. Rena Jones: I write music for Dance, Dance Revolution.…
George Winston Then & Now George Winston is both loved and reviled. His impressionistic solo piano albums came to define the Windham Hill sound and he’s among the first musicians most people think of when you say, New Age. Praised with five and four star reviews from Downbeat and Rolling Stone for his debut album, …
If you’re looking to get your flute on this summer, check out the Zion Flute and Drum Festival. It’s happening in Utah May15-17, 2009 and it’s a gathering of flute players, makers, educators and fans for a few days of wind blown melodies, including live concerts that include a pair of Echoes favorites, Suzanne Teng…
We often have musicians playing new music on Echoes, but when a legend like Al Di Meola drops some new compositions on us, that’s something of note. If you don’t know about Al Di Meola, he came to renown with Chick Corea’s Return to Forever fusion group in the 1970s. Over the next two decades…
We just got back from an amazing set of Echoes Living Room Concert recordings in Los Angeles. We set up camp at the studios of Broken Wave Music and in three days we had five acts come in to record 6 concerts and 3 interviews. The artists were Suzanne Teng & Mystic Journey, Lisa Lynne…
Refractions: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 12 launches Thursday night, November 16. The music on this CD tells a story of its own, a sound of synthesis and collaboration, world fusions, ambient designs and sonic explorations. But there are also stories behind each of those songs, unique circumstances that are part of the wonder…