We pick the Best Echoes CDs of the Year at the halfway point. John Diliberto then runs them down from #25 to number 1. It begins with a band we’ve never heard of before and ends with an Icon of Echoes. We’ll hear from artists who put out signature releases, others reaching for ambitious highs and still others reflecting on very long careers.
Echoes Top 25 for June finds Digitonal’s “Beautiful Broken” at the top, followed by March’s CD of the Month pick, “Backyards” by Lanterna, and guitarist Jesse Cook’s “One World”.
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Minimalist pioneer Terry Riley turns 80 and shows no sign of slowing down. On his birthday, Daevid Allen, Jon Hassell, Kronos Quartet, Mike Oldfield and more talk about the influence of this minimalist icon who has gone beyond minimalism.
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/EchoesPodcast-WuMan.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHear this interview in the Echoes Podcast here or download it from iTunes. The pipa is a Chinese lute, shaped like a teardrop with a course of deeply fretted strings that are played with fingernails. Wu Man is the Yo-Yo Ma of this instrument. And she’s played with…
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Earlier this year we saw the U.S. release of Rebekka Karijord’s 2012 album, We Become Ourselves. She came over from her home in Sweden to play live and talk about her music and life.
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Angela Sheik is a 21st century singer-songwriter who doesn’t just sit at a piano or play a guitar. With live looping, she creates her own elaborate orchestrations using those instruments plus autoharp, theremin, flute and whatever else she can get her hands on.
If you love the charm of a broken music box, a building in decay, and moss covered gardens, then the fractured elegance of Digitonal is for you. The ambient chamber music band has released their first album in 7 years. It’s called Beautiful Broken and it’s the CD of the Month for June.
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Another Fine Day has a new CD called A Good Place to Be. It’s a seductive album of ambient jazz explorations.
Steve Roach’s Skeleton Keys leads Echoes Top 25 for MayECHOES TOP 25 FOR May 2015 Steve Roach – Skeleton Keys (Projekt Records) Another Fine Day – A Good Place to Be (Interchill Records) Jeff Oster – Next (Retso Records) Bing & Ruth – Tomorrow was the Golden Age (RVNG International) Jesse Cook – One World (eOne Music) …
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Trumpeter Jeff Oster creates and ambient jazz sound on his new album, Next, joined by veteran session musicians like Nile Rodgers and Bernard Purdie.