INTERVIEWS AND CONCERTS FOR THE WEEK
Monday 02/11
MARK ISHAM’S SECRET SOURCES
Film composer enters the Echoes Chamber to hear his past reverberate
2007 was a busy year for film composer Mark Isham whose scores included In the Valley of Elah, Reservation Road, The Mist and Lions for Lambs. In his southern California studio, Isham hears tracks that have shaped his music, and sounds that he has shaped over the course of a four-decade music career.
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Tuesday 02/12
AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID BELMONT: EASTERN JAZZ
American guitarist hears eastern blues and dreams
David Belmont was a normal guitar player until he heard the Paul Butterfield Bands "East West." That set him on a course of Indian inflected finger-style guitar playing that he expands into his Windwater Ensemble. David Belmont talks about his guitar odyssey and latest CD, Postmodern Panache.
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Thursday 02/14
ECHOES OF THE HEART
A Valentine’s soundscape for the romantic and the erotic
Echoes celebrates St. Valentine's Day with a sensual soundscape of atmospheric moods and poetic murmurs. It's evocations of the heart from around the world and out into space.
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Friday 02/15
AN INTERVIEW WITH NUCULTURES: AVANT-ROCKERS IN AN AMBIENT LOUNGE
Sophisticated electro-lounge music with avant-garde edges
Nucultures is a band put together by veteran Philadelphia avant-rocker and guitarist, Tim Motzer. With his wife, singer Ellie Perez and bassist Barry Meehan, they've created a sophisticated and intoxicating take on electro-lounge music. In their basement studio, Nucultures reveal the quirk and work behind their debut album, Butterflies, Zebras and Moonbeams.
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Playlists for previous weeks can be found at our Playlist Archive
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