Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith was a founding member of the AACM and he brings that sense of jazz freedom and possibilities to bear in a live performance at Philadelphia’s Clef Club with his Golden Quartet.
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Wadada Leo Smith Live
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Big Ears Festival 2015
The Big Ears Festival in Knoxville brought together an array of musicians from the bleeding edge of the avant-garde to the cutting edge of rock and folk. Kronos Quartet presided over this meeting ground of Vanguard music that included Laurie Anderson, Wu Man, Terry Riley, Rhiannon Giddens and much much more.
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Between the Ears of Big Ears 2015: Interviews with 7 Performers
We hear features from 7 of the performers at Big Ears 2015 including Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Max Richter, William Tyler, Silver Apples, and Bill Frisell.
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Daevid Allen Sounds the Last Gong R.I.P.
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Daevid Allen was the court jester and master of madness for Gong, the European progressive rock group who formed and 1969. He left the planet on March 13, at 77. He was a scientist of spacerock, evangelist of glissando guitar, one of the earliest loopers and cosmic Dada philosopher.
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VINYL VIGILANCE-Muhal Richard Abrams’ Spiral
AACM founder Muhal Richard Abrams was in free flight in 1978 when he recorded his live album, Spiral.
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Movie Music Song Credits
Songs may drive the emotional soul of a film. They might be the element that leaves the most lasting impression, but whether it’s The Rolling Stones or Brian Eno, they still get their acknowledgment last on movie credit rolls.
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Echoes Winners at the Grammys
Congratulations to 2015 Grammy winners from the Echoes side of the music stream. Beck‘s Morning Phase was the number one Echoes CD in 2014. We were as shocked as anybody, except Kanye West, who of course, had to be the MOST shocked, because he’s, you know, fucking Yeezus. He bum rushed the stage during Beck’s…
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Picking the New Age Grammy 2015 & More
The New Age Grammy category is always the hardest to figure out. Every year there are obvious choices I think should win. Yet last year, in what had been one of the best collection of nominees in a while with Brian Eno, Kitaro, R. Carlos Nakai and Peter Kater, an unknown and relatively unheard nominee, Laura…
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The Dream is Over: Edgar Froese R.I.P.
Hear our tribute to Edgar Froese tonight on Echoes. I first heard Tangerine Dream in 1974. It was the album Phaedra, and it was unlike anything I had ever heard before: no vocals, no songs, rhythms that throbbed like galactic rubber bands, textures that swirled, and sounds that were completely unfamiliar. My music world was forever changed. Now…
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Dry the River Interview in Echoes Podcast
Dry the River in Echoes PodcastDry the River is a band from England making an atmospheric rock sound that has a broken toggle stuck between folk and psychedelic music. Their music is marked by powerful rock instrumentation and soaring harmonies often traveling into the falsetto range that has fostered comparisons to Bon Iver vocally. They[‘re…