It’s a Throwback 30 on the next Echoes when we explore the Norwegian band Bel Canto and their 1990 album, Birds of Passage. Bel Canto had a dream pop sound before dream pop.
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Thursday, Mar 5, 2020 – Throwback 30: Bel Canto
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Echoes Podcast Big Ears Festival 2020 & Jon Christensen In Memoriam
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Big Ears Festival 2020 Preview and Jon Christensen Remembered this Week in Echoes Podcasthttps://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/EchoesPodcast-BigEars2020-JonChristensen.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS In the Echoes Podcast, we talk to Ashley Capps about his Big Ears 2020 Festival. Then we remember drummer Jon Christensen, the ECM house drummer. The Big Ears Music Festival 2020 is upon us.…
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Wednesday, Mar 4, 2020 – Voxfire & Ralph Towner 80th
Voxfire takes Medieval chants and turns them into free-floating expanses with beautiful vocals. They infuse their chants with ambient moods and even blues harmonica.
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Tuesday, Mar 3, 2020 – Music by Nova Soon and Michael Bruckner
We’ll hear music by Nova Soon, who calls his music space folk, and while we’re in space, set the controls for electronic artist Michael Bruckner’s The Undercurrent.
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Al Di Meola Covers The Beatles on Strawberry Fields
Fusion guitar icon Al Di Meola has a new album of Beatles covers, Across the Universe,coming. Ahead of it he’s released a video of him playing Strawberry Fields.
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Monday, Mar 2, 2020 – CDoM Agnes Obel’s Myopia
We get inside the head of Agnes Obel when we explore her new album, Myopia. The Danish singer has created another chamber pop song-cycle of seductive moods and interior thoughts.
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Weekend, Feb 29 – Mar 1, 2020 – Lane 8 & Jake Shimabukuro
We talk to Lane 8, the electronic artist bans sll cameras at his concerts and calls his sound “dreamy back-rub house music.” We’ll also hear the ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro playing live.
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Friday, Feb 28, 2020 – Fink in Concert
Fink is the recording persona of Fin Greenall, who brings his ambient sensibilities to his deep and emotionally complex songs sung in his resonant tenor. Fink performs live on Echoes.
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Echoes Podcast: Peter Kater Interview & Lyle Mays Obit
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Peter Kater’s Hard Road to New Age Bliss & Lyle Mays Rememberedhttps://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/EchoesPodcast-PeterKater-2020-LyleMays.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe talk with 2020 Grammy winning pianist Peter Kater and we remember Lyle Mays of the Pat Metheny Group. In the Echoes Podcast, pianist Peter Kater. When a musician wins a Grammy award, you often don’t know…
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Thursday, Feb 27, 2020 – Slow Flow Echoes
New music by Roger and Brian Eno from their collaboration Mixing Colours. We’ll also hear from electronic artist Hollan Holmes who has a new album of sequencer electronics called Milestones.