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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Echoes Top 25 for June 2015
Category: Program Highlights
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Terry Riley in Echoes Podcast
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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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Wu Man in Echoes Podcast
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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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Rebekka Karijord in Echoes Podcast
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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 in Echoes Podcast
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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.
CD of the Month
June CD of the Month – Digitonal’s Beautiful Broken
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 in Echoes Podcast
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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.
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Echoes Top 25 for May 2015
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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Jeff Oster in Echoes Podcast
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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.
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Nels Cline in Echoes Podcast
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Nels Cline is best known as the guitarist with Wilco, but long before he joined that band he had a burgeoning solo career as a an outside jazz guitarist. He reflects on his music, which embraces the contemplative and the chaotic.