INTERVIEWS AND CONCERTS FOR THE WEEK
Monday 01/19
AN INTERVIEW WITH JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON
Icelandic orchestrations and Techno-Nostalgia
Jóhann Jóhannsson's "Fordlandia" was one of the most haunting albums of 2008 with its deep ambient chamber music designs. From his home in Reykjavík, Jóhann talks about music that explores the philosophical ramifications of IBM computers from the 1960s and the failed totalitarian utopia of Fordlândia.
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Tuesday 01/20
AN INAUGURAL ECHOES
Music of hope, primise and new days
It's an inaugural Echoes when we celebrate the installation of the 44th President of the United States. We send off President Barack Obama with music of hope, dreams, new beginnings and global reach.
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Wednesday 01/21
ECHOES REMIXED
It's Echoes in Digital Variations
On the next Echoes, things might sound familiar, but not quite as Echoes gets remixed. Bombay Dub Orchestra interprets Banco de Gaia, Thievery Corporation updates the Tijuana Brass and Ulrich Schnauss gets digitally reshuffled as we hear alternate takes on familiar tunes. Familiar, at least, if you listen to Echoes.
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Thursday 01/22
We hear acoustic chamber music from the duo of Anja Lechner and Vasillis Tsabropoulos from their new CD, Melos and I have new electronic music by Saul Stokes off his album of melodic glitches called Villa Galaxia.
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Friday 01/23
AN INTERVIEW WITH SUMNER MCKANE
Ambient Americana that takes nostalgia and sends it into space
It's been several years now that guitarist Sumner McKane has been releasing albums of evocative soundscapes dipped in Americana as cinematic as a John Ford western and as nuanced as an Andrew Wyeth painting. But McKane's landscapes are tinged in ambient atmospheres and pulled by an undertow of psychedelia that makes it some of the most unassumingly mind-bending music of the decade. In his home north of Portland, Maine, Sumner McKane takes us through the photo album of "What a Great Place to Be."
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Playlists for previous weeks can be found at our Playlist Archive
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