INTERVIEWS AND CONCERTS FOR THE WEEK
Monday 02/25
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH JAMES BLACKSHAW
An excursion into post-John Fahey raga guitar
James Blackshaw is a young English finger-style guitar who may have roots in the rustic avant-garde Americana of John Fahey, but he's finding his own sound that looks to Indian and new classical music as much as folk. He recently released the CD, The Cloud of Unknowing. James Blackshaw whips out his guitar in the Echoes Living Room.
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Tuesday 02/26
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH ROBERT RICH & IAN BODDY
Two electronic explorers converge in the Echoes living room for a synthesizer sound charge
Robert Rich and Ian Boddy are both veterans of the electronic music scene and they've recorded a pair of albums together, but they've never played together in concert until now. They launch a set of hitherto unrecorded soundscapes live.
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Thursday 02/28
AN INTERVIEW WITH R. CARLOS NAKAI AND 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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Playlists for previous weeks can be found at our Playlist Archive
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