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INTERVIEWS AND CONCERTS FOR THE WEEK
Monday 01/07
JANUARY CD OF THE MONTH
PAUL AVGERINOS: GARDEN OF DELIGHT
Longtime Echoes favorite Paul Avgerinos starts us out with our first CD of the Month for 2008. His album Garden of Delight is an intoxicating display of eastern and middle eastern atmospheres merged though his own ambient orchestral sensibilities. His guest musicians include acclaimed Turkish musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek and Kevin Fortune, formerly known in the 1980s as Kevin Braheny.
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Tuesday 01/08
AN INTERVIEW WITH R. CARLOS NAKAI & UDI BAR-DAVID:
NATIVE CHAMBER MUSIC
Native flute and classical cello meet in modern chamber music
R. Carlos Nakai is the noted Native American flute player who has never found a cultural collaboration he couldn't make is own. Udi Bar-David is the Israeli born cellist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Together, they recorded the album Voyagers. They come by to talk about the global concepts behind their intimate music.
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Thursday 01/10
AN INTERVIEW WITH JEFF OSTER: BUILT TO LOOP
Trumpet player blows his way into digital loops
Jeff Oster grew up as a traditional trumpet player, blowing Tower of Power horn lines, but as he's reinvented himself in the second half of his life, he's been transformed into a digital designer. Finding collaborators and sounds on-line, he's just crafted his second CD of ambient horn music, True. It was an Echoes CD of the Month in September and in the Top 25 of both the 2007 Echoes Listener Poll and Essential CDs for 2007. We talk with Jeff Oster and Will Ackerman about the looping logic of True.
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Friday 01/11
AN INTERVIEW WITH JAPANCAKES: AMBIENT COUNTRY ROCK
An instrumental guitar band taps country and classical with a touch of quirk
Japancakes are a band from Athens, Georgia, that mixes electric guitar with pedal steel guitar, classical strings with synthesizers and emerges with a sound that's got country airs strung out in classical refrains. We interview three of the central figures in this band that expands the alternative Athens tradition.
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Playlists for previous weeks can be found at our Playlist Archive
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